[Sosfbay-discuss] Cynthia McKinney in Bay Area this week

[Andrea Dorey]

I hope a lot of Greens show up at these events with her lawn signs  
and posters from her Green Party presidential run to show her that we  
Greens are button-popping proud of her indomitable spirit and feisty  
vociferousness—no wonder she and Nader are good friends!  She's a  
chip off the old block and may end up eclipsing him in political  
impact!  What an amazing woman! Her grasp of a panoply of issues is  
impressive.  She's no light-weight.

I heard her on KPFA today talking about the Israeli New York crowd  
that ousted her TWICE from office.  They didn't like her criticisms  
of their actions in Palestine.  I was taken aback as I heard her acid  
comments.  I also didn't know about the 'twice.'  Apparently her  
critics used the ability to cross party lines to vote in the primary  
in huge numbers to set up a weaker candidate (and eliminate her) to  
oppose their party's favorite.  Dirty politics.
Andrea

On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Jim Stauffer wrote:

>
> Thursday Aug. 20 -- Mon. Aug. 24
>
> Cynthia McKinney's Gaza Solidarity Triumph Tour in SF Bay
> Area-Oakland-Sonoma State-SF-El Cerrito:
>
> Cynthia's recent experiences in Gaza and an Israel jail. Hear  
> Cynthia on
> KPFA radio all next week
>
> No jailing of journalists! In U.S. or outside.
> First stop on her tour --  The preliminary hearing of her good friend,
> POCC Minister of Information JR, who is facing trumped-up felony  
> charges.
>
> This event is part of former Congresswoman and presidential candidate
> Cynthia McKinney’s Triumph Tour of the San Francisco Bay Area next
> Thursday-Monday, Aug. 20-24. (See Cynthia McKinney’s Gaza Solidarity
> Triumph Tour: Main event Aug. 20 Grand Lake Theater.)
>
>   Hear about Cynthia’s recent experiences in Gaza and an Israel jail.
> Hear about the media whiteout of Cynthia’s lifelong breakthroughs in
> countless struggles for peace with justice. Help build a full house at
> every stop on her historical tour. Hear Cynthia on KPFA radio all next
> week. Help promote the tour and pack each event as a way to say WE ARE
> THE MEDIA!
>
>
>
>   No jailing of journalists!
> Join Cynthia McKinney for the very first stop on her tour – attending
> the preliminary hearing on the ridiculous, trumped up charge of felony
> arson of a trash can against her good friend, POCC Minister of
> Information JR (who is the one to thank for organizing Cynthia’s  
> Triumph
> Tour). You’ll recall he was arrested by Oakland police, who know him
> well as their most severe critic, while on assignment Jan. 7 for  
> the SF
> Bay View, covering the first Oakland Rebellion following the execution
> of Oscar Grant. Charges have been dropped against nearly all the
> 100-plus arrested that night – but not JR. The OPD still has not
> returned his camera, and they’re still determined to railroad him into
> prison. Pack the courtroom Thursday, Aug. 20, 9 a.m., at 661  
> Washington
> St., Courtroom 112! Stop the whiteout of independent journalists!
> Support independent media!
>
>
>                             SCHEDULE
>
> Thursday, Aug. 20, 6:30 p.m., Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave.,
> Oakland, $15 (no one turned away, space permitting), tickets available
> in advance at the Grand Lake box office
>
> Friday, Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m., Black Dot, 1195 Pine St., West Oakland
>
> Saturday, Aug. 22, 3 p.m., Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, Sonoma State
> University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, $5 (Students Free),
> free parking
> SF Bay View newspaper in cooperation with Project Censored and Media
> Freedom Foundation hosts Cynthia McKinney at Sonoma State University.
>
> Sunday, Aug. 23, 4 p.m., Lunacy Theater, Redstone Building, 2940 16th
> St. at Mission and 16th Street BART, San Francisco, $15 (no one turned
> away, space permitting)
>
> Monday, Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m., 33 Revolutions Café, 10086 San Pablo Ave.,
> at Central, El Cerrito, no admission, dinner available for a  
> reasonable
> price
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Think what people glued to corporate media won’t hear: Embarking  
> last
> December on a Free Gaza boat trip to break the blockade of  
> humanitarian
> aid to Gaza, Cynthia was daring Israel to prevent the passage of a
> former member of Congress through international and Gazan waters; she
> was never in Israeli waters on either trip. In December, days  
> before its
> air and ground bombardment of Gaza, Israel ordered its navy  
> warships to
> ram the Free Gaza boat Dignity, nearly sinking it.
>
>   Returning June 29 on the Free Gaza boat Spirit of Humanity, she and
> all 21 aboard, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and
> numerous journalists, were surrounded by Israeli warships, their boat
> was boarded in international waters in what NY City Councilman Charles
> Barron called an “act of piracy,” and they were all booked into prison
> for a week of catching catnaps on a concrete floor, eating meager
> rations of mostly bread and water but also meeting many Africans in an
> Israeli prison population that is – surprisingly – mostly Black.
>
>   A day or two after Cynthia was deported back to the U.S., she  
> accepted
> an invitation from British Member of Parliament George Galloway to  
> join
> Viva Palestina, then stuck at the Egypt-Gaza border with a long convoy
> of vehicles and medical aid for Gaza. She and Charles Barron led many
> days of negotiations with an unfriendly Egyptian government that
> succeeded in allowing some – not all – of the convoy to cross
> triumphantly into Gaza on July 15. Black people everywhere cheered  
> when
> they learned that the only well known people with Viva Palestina  
> beside
> Galloway were all Black: Cynthia McKinney, Charles Barron and M-1 of
> dead prez.
>
>   Wait ‘til you hear from Cynthia what she saw inside Gaza! She’ll be
> armed with videos on her Bay Area Triumph Tour. People glued to the
> mainstream media won’t see them or hear from Cynthia, but you will!
>
>   DON’T MISS SEEING, HEARING AND MEETING CYNTHIA McKINNEY AUG. 20-24!
> DON’T LET YOUR FRIENDS MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY!
>
>
>
>
>
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