[GPCA Updates] Cynthia McKinney in Bay Area this week

[Green Party of California Updates]

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

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  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!