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

Thu Aug 20 22:45:05 PDT 2009

I'm thinking of doing the one at 4PM on Sunday near 16th St. BART.
Anybody else want to go?

Andrea Dorey wrote:
> 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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