[GPCA Updates] Press Advisory on Rosa at Denver rally tomorrow, please distribute

[Green Party of California Updates]

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Listen to Green vice-presidential candidate Rosa Clemente interviewed by
Kojo Nnamdi on WAMU 88.5 FM (Washington, DC, but broadcast from Denver) on
Tuesday: http://wamu.org/programs/kn/08/08/26.php#22631

Rosa did an outstanding job, covering everything from the politics of the
Hip Hop Generation to the Green Party to the retreat of the Democratic Party
and Barack Obama on issue after issue.

Forward the link widely!

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*Press Advisory*

*For immediate release*


GREEN PARTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ROSA CLEMENTE TO PARTICIPATE IN
“OPEN THE DEBATES” RALLY IN DENVER

/[Washington, DC]/ Rosa Clemente, the recently nominated vice-
presidential candidate running with former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
on the Green Party ticket, will join Ralph Nader, Matt Gonzalez, Val
Kilmer, Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Tom Morello, Jello Biafra, Nellie
McKay, and Ike Reilly at the "Open the Debates" Super Rally on Wednesday,
August 27, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the University of Denver Magness Arena in
Denver, Colorado.

Green Party and other third party and independent candidates in the 2008
presidential race have been consistently excluded from national and local
debates, including progressive Congressman Dennis Kucinich from national
media debates. The Green Party is demanding that presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney to be included in the upcoming Google and YouTube
debates in New Orleans.

“It is critical for the Hip Hop generation and young people, among whom
only one in fourteen vote or participate in elections, and who see the
current two-party system as antiquated and unable to address their
issues, to be able to hear other alternatives at all political debates so
they can have informed voter choice and become engaged in real democracy.
The Green Party ticket represents something my generation can vote for,
not just an alternative, but an imperative. This push to have third party
and independent voices in national and local debates helps all of us to
make democracy work,” Clemente noted.

The Denver Super Rally, organized by independent candidate Ralph Nader is
being held to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. A second
Super Rally is planned for Minneapolis on September 4th at Orchestra Hall
during the week of the Republican National Convention. The Super Rallies
will be part of an outpouring of protest in Denver and Minneapolis
against the two corporate controlled parties and their policies of
perpetual militarism and war, at the expense of the necessities here at
home.

"Our focus at the Denver Super Rally will be to expand the debates beyond
just two parties," Nader said. "It's an issue of central concern to many
Americans and extends far beyond any one candidate. It is a first
amendment matter of speech, petition and assembly during a Presidential
election for both the candidates and the voters."

For more information see:

www.votetruth08.org <http://www.votetruth08.org/>

www.rosaclemente.com <http://www.rosaclemente.com/>

http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com
<http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/