Cynthia Speaks to Fundraiser in Tucson Arizona
On Wednesday, October 3rd, Cynthia McKinney spoke at a fundraiser to jointly benefit the debt retirement efforts for her 2006 Congressional campaign, as well as the the 2008 ballot access efforts of the Arizona Green Party. This is a nine minute clip of her remarks to that event.
Ex-Congresswoman urges third-party support:At Green Party event in W-B, Cynthia McKinney says black voters should review options
WILKES-BARRE – Possibly portending a party switch, former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney said that black voters must reconsider their blanket support for Democratic candidates and preached “principles over party” at a sparsely attended meeting of the Luzerne County Green Party on Tuesday afternoon at the Grapevine Grille.
Arriving somewhat beyond fashionably late after appearing on a local talk radio show, McKinney, flanked by county Green Party co-chairman Carl Romanelli, worked the 20-person crowd. The event was timed oddly to match McKinney’s traveling schedule, Romanelli said.
Several local activists and aspiring Green Party politicians were there, including Ron Felton, president of the Wilkes-Barre Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and U.S. congressional candidate John Murphy.
McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, served in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007. She lost in the 2006 Democratic primary.
McKinney repeatedly railed against her party, saying Democrats “didn’t even fight for your right to vote and your right to representation” in reference to the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 Florida presidential election.
She suggested that black voters, 90 percent of whom vote Democratic, should consider third parties.
“We have to be willing to do something that we’ve never done before so that we can get some things we’ve never had before,” she said.
Nation: McKinney Dismisses Pelosi, Embraces Sheehan Challenge
Cynthia McKinney, who served six terms as an often-dissenting Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, is as disenchanted with the cautious course of her old party as the millions of Americans who -- through their low approval rating for the current Congress -- are registering frustration at the failure of Democratic leaders in the House and Senate to aggressively oppose the war in Iraq and to confront the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush-Cheney administration.
McKinney confirmed the depth of her disenchantment at a rally Saturday in Kennebunkport, Maine, where thousands of activists gathered to protest at one of the president's several vacation homes.
McKinney denounced both Bush and what she referred to as "an exhaustively complicit Democratic Party"
We Will Not Be Divided
May Day, Los Angeles, California
Two centuries ago, the United States, Latin America, and Haiti were joined in the struggle for dignity and freedom. In 1779, when a fledgling United States was fighting for its independence, a unit of Haitian volunteers answered the call and fought alongside George Washington in the Battle of Savannah.
When Haiti threw off imperial domination, it helped Latin America to become free. In fact, Simon Bolivar received supplies from Haiti for his victorious war over Spanish imperialism while Venezuela's first tri-color flag was
