On August 27, the Ohio Green Party filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cynthia McKinney to get her name on the November 2008 ballot. The case is McKinney v Brunner, U.S. District Court, 2:08-cv-819. Ballot Access News reports that the federal court in Ohio previously put the Libertarian Party and the Socialist Party on the Ohio ballot, on the ground that each party showed it has some support, and the state has no valid law in place regulating which parties should be on the ballot.

From the Power to the People Campaign:

*ROSA CLEMENTE, GREEN PARTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL APPEAR ON
PREMIERE SHOW ON BET NETWORK*

[Washington, DC] A premiere show on the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network, “What’s At Stake” hosted by commentator Jeff Johnson, will feature a live interview from the Democratic National Convention site with current Green Party vice-presidential candidate Rosa Clemente on Wednesday, August 27, airing at 9:00 pm EST.

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Hip Hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente represent a historic and unprecedented nomination choice of two women of color as the presidential candidates by the Green Party, a major independent national party.

Clemente will be interviewed on the new show, which will focus on the key issues facing the Black community in the current election.

YIKES! That’s TONIGHT!

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.

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Here’s here speeched from the Mercury Cafe in Denver.

Part 1 (9 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZlpLmL7wk

Part 2 (about 3 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNA6nnT2OY

Show her some love:

http://www.cindyforcongress.org

From Power to the People Minnesota:

Historic Step Forward for Women Candidates on Women’s Equality Day

On Tuesday, August 26th, Minnesota supporters of Cynthia McKinney’s 2008 presidential bid delivered over 2,700 petition signatures they have collected to gain ballot access for the Green Party candidate and her vice-presidential running mate Rosa Clemente. A minimum of 2,000 certified signatures are required by the state of Minnesota in order to gain ballot access in the November 4th elections.

Representatives of the MN Green Party, Power to the People MN, and the Workers International League handed in hundreds of signed petition sheets at the office of the Secretary of State at the State Office Building in St. Paul.

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McKinney/Clemente Tee Shirt

Bumper Stickers and Buttons!

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Just watch the video for the story. Then take a minute or two to think of how you will react when an opportunity arises.

As the Democratic Nominating Convention gets underway in Denver, Greens in that city pulled out of the Recreate ‘68 coalition and decided to support the Alliance for Real Democracy coalition instead.

State co-chair Claire Ryder explains why they made this move in two videos. They, and other comments on the topic, can be found at the Metro Denver Greens website.

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Now, on to the news!

Steve Larrick, Green Party candidate for US Senate from Nebraska, got some coverage for his visit to the Nebraska State Fair. While there he debated the Democratic and Republican nominee , and was interrupted by a marching band. And you thought ballot access was our only hurdle!

The full story is available at the Daily Nebraskan and Larrick maintains a blog over here.

You can also listen to the debate via netMebraska and do further reading at The Grand Island Independent.

MLive.com covered Cynthia McKinney’s planned visit to Detroit over the Labor Day weekend.

Whitewater Community TV will broadcast portions of the Democratic, Republican and Green Party national conventions. The Indiana based broadcaster will reportedly broadcast McKinney’s acceptance speech and press conference.

Bunches of media outlets have gotten it wrong. They posted articles explaining that Ralph Nader had submitted signatures to place his name on the ballot as the Green Party nominee. An example of this screw-up is here. One can only hope that tomorrow’s news will tell the truth, that Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party nominee.

The Babylon Beacon of Long Island announced a Green Party gathering on September 3rd.

The Jackson Sun reports on Cynthia McKinney’s visit to Jackson TN, as well as other stops in Western TN. McKinney said

“We are kick-starting a movement so that our values can be reflected in public policy.”

Former Green Party vice-presidential nominee Pat LaMarche has resigned her position as spokesperson for a casino proposed in Maine. A FOX News affiliate in that state posted a brief video in which the reporter explains the reasons LaMarche resigned her post.

According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, some Democrats in that state have started a political action committee to bring the Green nominee for Public Relations Committee some cash, and at least a little bit of news coverage. Apparently some Democrats believe that Rick Lass would be a better public servant than the Democratic nominee.

Lass will get $64,000 in public financing for the campaign, but some Democrats feel so strongly about Lass that they have already held meetings to turn out support for him in November.

Finally, Eugene Platt Green Party nominee for the 115th House District in the South Carolina State Legislature, got some coverage in that city’s free weekly. Platt found out today that the South Carolina Democratic Party has filed to intervene in his federal ballot access case. Represented by the ACLU, Platt and supporters in Charleston held the first of what will be many re-organizing meetings in the South Carolina Lowcountry this past Saturday.

Cynthia McKinney Speaks in Denver Colorado, before DNC
Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney speaks at the R-eCreate ‘68 rally outside the DNC on Sunday, August 24, 2008.

Here is the Denver schedule posted at All Things Cynthia McKinney (all times are Colorado Mountain time):
Sunday, August 24:
9:00 am: End the Occupations March and Rally =97 West Steps of the Colorado State Capitol Building, Sunday, August 24.
7:00 pm: World Can’t Wait Stop the War on Iran - Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater, 119 Park Avenue West.
Monday, August 25:
9:00 am: Rosa Clemente Speaks, Freedom March, Civic Center Park
12:00 noon: Resurrection City Free University, City of Ceurnivaca Park, 20th Street & Little Raven, attend the Lecture of Dr. Vincent Harding.
1:00 pm: McKinney Lecture, Resurrection City Free University,
6:00 pm: Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, 80205 (303) 294-9258
Wednesday, August 27:
7:00 pm: Rosa Clemente Speaks at the Open the Debates Rally sponsored by Nader/Gonzalez!
(Be sure to keep checking the McKinney Campaign site.)

By Some of All Parts, video to accompany their already popular song:

hat tip to the Wilder Side

Cynthia McKinney gave an online interview with Kate Sheppard that appeared on environmental news website Grist.org today.

Some highlights:

“Right now we’ve got two energy policies in this country,” McKinney told Grist. “One is war, the other is drilling. And neither one of them works.” It’s a message she hopes will win over voters who have tired of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

From the lead-in:

McKinney was a Democrat herself for years, representing Georgia’s 4th district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and again from 2005 to 2007. She was the first African-American woman to represent her state on the federal level. During her time in the House, McKinney was active on environmental issues, particularly those related to human health.

Her legislative efforts included lead sponsorship of the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act, which would have eliminated commercial logging on federal public lands. In 2001, she introduced a bill that would have suspended use of depleted uranium munitions until their health effects could be studied further. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, McKinney was a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s failure to help residents of New Orleans, and she pushed for comprehensive environmental testing of flooded areas.

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Published on Vibe Launch

Talk about the platform. What do you think the Green Party has over the other parties?

This is the only party that even has social justice as its core principle. When we say ending the war, we mean all the wars. We need to get all the military out of every country, we need to begin to deal with issues of what peace can look like, how do you sustain that. Obviously, the green party is at the forefront of pushing the environment as a core value, that was innovative then. There should be an end to imprisoning young people, an immediate stop to the death penalty, a livable wage, not a minimum wage. Impeachment for George Bush and them is critical. I think if we don’t hold them accountable as a people, then anybody can do the same shit that they did.

Words are words, but we can make the words into deeds. If people would even open up the platform, they would see that neither the Democrats and Republicans would even talk about young people having rights and that we should be signing some of these international treaties, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The hardest part is to literally get people to open it up and want to be exposed.

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Published in the Times-Standard

I am Dr. Carol Wolman and I’m running for Congress in Northern California’s District 1. As a licensed psychiatrist and professional heath care provider, I’d like to explain why I think the incumbent Representative Mike Thompson is not representing our interests and not pushing for a single payer universal health care system.

Fewer American have access to health care each year. While the quality of health care deteriorates the cost of medical care continues to increase substantially. As of the end of 2007, 42 percent of adults (75 million) were either uninsured or seriously underinsured, an increase from 35 percent just four years earlier. While we spend far more for health care than any other industrialized nation, much of this is wasted on administrative costs, or flows as profits into the pockets of the insurance companies that control our medical services. In Canada and Western Europe, where universal single payer health care is the norm, medical costs amounts to between only 9 to 10 percent of GDP, while we spend more than 16 percent.

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