The Milwaukee Examiner reports on Cynthia McKinney’s election night address, focusing on her calls to continue to demand the change that her supporters fought and voted for:
The Green Party’s 2008 presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney, called on her supporters to maintain pressure on President-elect Barack Obama and “organize, mobilize [and] agitate” to ensure that true [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social & Economic Justice'
McKinney: Organize, Mobilize, Agitate
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Social & Economic Justice
Cynthia McKinney: Malik Rahim Needs Our Help!
November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Cynthia McKinney sent an email to supporters today urging them to help elect Malik Rahim to Congress:
We all know the importance of having someone of conscience in the United States Congress, someone of unbending commitment to our values and not just another representative of “business-as-usual” politics. Malik Rahim proved his mettle when we all watched [...]
Tags: B. Congressional Campaigns · Social & Economic Justice
Green Party Election Results - Presidential Race
November 4th, 2008 · 44 Comments
Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are the Green Party candidates for President and Vice President.
They are on the ballot in 32 states, and are official write-in candidates in an additional 17 states.
We will post election results by state for McKinney and Clemente here when they come in.
Comments welcome, especially reports of or [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Social & Economic Justice
McKinney and the Culture of Death in America
November 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Cynthia McKinney couldn’t make the Thursday debate, she was at an execution in Texas.
ht/Gail
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
ZNET: Vote Your Values: An Interview with Rosa Clemente
November 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments
An interview with Adele Nieves
Rosa Clemente is one of the most prominent activists of our generation. She is a nationally renowned speaker, writer, and journalist - one of the most important independent journalists covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - and in 2001 was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · Grassroots Democracy · National Greens · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
Green Party Political Director Addresses OSCE
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Green Party Political Director Brent McMillan addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE.) on Friday, October 31st. According to Brent:
Approximately 100 Parliamentarians from Europe and Central Asia are about to disembark around the country to observe the U.S. Elections over the next several days [...]
Tags: Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · Grassroots Democracy · National Greens · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
Green Party Poised to Collect Big Victories in State On Nov. 4
November 1st, 2008 · No Comments
published on the News Blaze
Twenty-three members of the Green Party are on the California ballot Tuesday - including presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney - with the party poised to collect several big victories, including two supervisor seats in San Francisco. Greens already hold about 50 elected posts throughout the state.
n all, Greens have, in addition to [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · B. Congressional Campaigns · C. State Party News · Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
Nebraska Green Party’s Larrick Seeks Cleaner World
November 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Candidate Challenging Johanns, Kleeb In Senate Race
published on KETV7 Omahan’s website
Steve Larrick, the Green Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska, said his campaign is all about peace and fixing the environment.
“We really feel our country needs to invest in green technologies and green solutions to our challenges,” Larrick said. “We could begin [...]
Tags: C. State Party News · Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
The Blackout of Race & Gender
October 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments
In an article at OpEdNews, Amee Chew makes a compelling case for the Cynthia McKinney / Rosa Clemente vote:
The Green Party Presidential ticket of Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente brings something special and unprecedented to U.S. politics. Not only are they the first all women-of-color ticket for President and Vice President. These women take [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · D. Editorials · Social & Economic Justice
New video features “real Greens”
October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
A video produced by Joe Truss of Oakland Greens and some of all parts has hit the YouTube with a series of brief glimpses of actual Greens explaining why we support Green and independent political action. In my opinion, all of us need to find our own way to do this sort of thing. [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · B. Congressional Campaigns · C. State Party News · D. Editorials · Grassroots Democracy · National Greens · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
Going Beyond the “Middle Class” in the Election
October 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments
The economic status of minorities in the US remains on the table. With the current economic crisis, this will not be addressed just by the election of Obama. Electing an African-American will not restructure urban economies. It will not end the environment of violence that so many African-Americans are forced to endure. It will not [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Social & Economic Justice
Hoover’s RFC 2.0
October 11th, 2008 · No Comments
In the bailout passed by Congress, we have witnessed a new version of Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation that failed to get the economy out of the Depression. It is long overdue for local communities and institutions to be empowered to disburse Federal aid.
Those same irate folks at McCain rallies who have been disempowered by the [...]
Tags: D. Editorials · Social & Economic Justice
McKinney: the Unaccounted Deaths
October 8th, 2008 · No Comments
I received the following detailed statement from the Power to the People campaign in response to questions about Cynthia’s recent statement that thousands of people may have been executed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
While this information makes clear that there are still many unanswered questions about how many people died both during the [...]
Tags: Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice
McKinney replies to debate questions in a series of videos
October 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Posted at Cynthia McKinney’s YouTube site are a series of responses to questions posed at the Presidential debate. Addressing the economic crisis, she begins with calls for a moratorium on foreclosures, renegotiating mortgages, and banning predatory lending and adjustable rate mortgages.
The other videos in the series address the Iraq War, the US relationship with [...]
Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Social & Economic Justice
Run for the Banks
October 3rd, 2008 · 6 Comments
As Wall Street holds our pensions and 401(k)s hostage, we need to develop a tactic as effective as theirs. It is overdue for us to express our outrage in an effective way. We have our own assets in this economy. We bring the millions of dollars in stock investments, bank deposits, home mortgages and certificates [...]
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