Entries Tagged as 'Peace & Non-Violence'

Tikrit Rallies Against Kurds While Maliki Fiddles

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Legend has it that in A.D. 64 the emperor Nero (A.D. 37 - A.D. 68), last of the Caesars, set fire to Rome to see ‘how Troy would look when it was in flames’ and to serve as a suitable background for a recitation of his poetry while accompanying himself on the lyre.” Recent history [...]

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Tags: D. Editorials · Peace & Non-Violence

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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: C. State Party News · Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · Peace & Non-Violence · 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. [...]

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Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · B. Congressional Campaigns · C. State Party News · D. Editorials · Grassroots Democracy · National Greens · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice

Obama, War, and Hippies?

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From Kim Wilder:
I hope that the peace community and the wilderside audience is well aware that Barack Obama is FOR war with Afghanistan. Ian and I were at a presidential forum in Huntington where Obama’s spokesperson made that quite clear. Please know that saying YES to Obama now, is saying YES to war with [...]

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Tags: Peace & Non-Violence

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 [...]

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Tags: Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice

Bob Kinsey’s Colorado Senate Campaign

October 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Rocky Mountain News profiles Bob Kinsey today, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate. Kinsey, 71, is challenging Democrat Mark Udall over his continued votes to fund Bush’s war of occupation in Iraq.
The war, he said, is diverting funds from the faltering domestic economy, driving our dependence on foreign oil and, in doing so, [...]

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Tags: B. Congressional Campaigns · Peace & Non-Violence

Cynthia McKinney asks: How in the world can you spend trillions of dollars on the military and intelligence and have them fail four times in one day?

September 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment


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Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Peace & Non-Violence

Seize the Time, An Essay by Cynthia McKinney

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

September 19, 2008
We the people must now seize the time! We have always had the capability of determining our own destiny, but for various reasons, the people failed to elect the leaders who provided the correct political will. There was always some corporate or private special interest that stood in the way of the public [...]

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Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Peace & Non-Violence

Bumper Sticker mentality

September 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Many folks complain about a “bumper sticker mentality” that tries to distill a complex question into a catch phrase. I see these snippets of opinion on people’s possessions as a sign of passion, and a well designed statement of a few words that says it all is precious.
With that in mind I have created [...]

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Tags: A. Presidential Campaign · Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · Grassroots Democracy · Green Party Watch · Peace & Non-Violence · Social & Economic Justice · Z. Say what???

Minneapolis Green Council Member Cam Gordon Calls for Investigations

September 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Cam Gordon, a Green Party member on the Minneapolis City Council has called with fellow Councilor Gary Schiff for investigations into police actions at the RNC:
Minneapolis Council Members Cam Gordon and Gary Schiff Call for Independent Investigation of RNC-Related Law Enforcement Actions
Throughout the Republican National Convention we have seen and heard a number of [...]

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Tags: C. State Party News · Peace & Non-Violence

The Green Patriot

August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Cynthia McKinney wrote recently that we are patriots, and I agree.
The York County (SC) Greens have, for the past couple of years, been allowed to submit a monthly column for YC magazine. YC Magazine is locally produced and distributed. They include columns by the Greens, Libertarians, Democrats and Republicans. The column below [...]

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Tags: D. Editorials · Peace & Non-Violence