Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for President and former Democratic Congresswoman of Georgia discusses the power of individuals entering the electoral arena and making changes with a stroke of the pen. She heralds the bravery of individual activists who have taken the step to become candidates in order to make changes. This interview was taped at the Alameda Greens Meeting on May 11, 2008 at Anna's Jazz Club in Berkeley, California.

Bay Area Filmmaker Margot Smith has produced a tremendous 10-minute video with highlights of the ILWU March and rally on May Day. You can check this out on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BspANxukBgg

The video includes major excerpts from the rally speeches by Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan, Danny Glover, Michael Eisenscher (from US Labor Against the War) -- as well as leaders of ILWU Locals 10 and 34.

Thanks for Margot Smith for this great contribution.

And for another take on the day's activities, check out this video from Labor Video Project.

ILWU shuts down west coast ports to protest the war on May Day 2008. This video shows some of the speaker at the May Day rally initiated by the ILWU Local 10 and interviews longshore workers about what they are taking action against the war and on May Day 2008. Produced by the Labor Video Project P.O. Box 720027 San Francisco, CA 94172 (415)282-1908 lvpsf@labornet.org

Cynthia speaks to fundraiser in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 12th, 2008.

Here is another important clip from the archives.

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From C-SPAN:

"Former Representative Cynthia McKinney talked about her bid for the Green Party presidential nomination which she announced in December 2007. She focused on racial issues.

"She spoke to students and faculty at the Nyumburu Cultural Center, at the University of Maryland in College Park."

To view this one hour program, with the Q&A which followed her brief remarks, please link to:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_...

An insightful personal conversation with Cynthia McKinney, Green Presidential hopeful. McKinney reveals her personal journey growing into a political activist with her father as mentor.

She talks about her entrance into the electoral arena from Georgia State Legislator to Congressperson and the trials, tribulations and wisdom gained and her desire to create meaningful change in people's lives by running for President as a Green.

Thanks to Craig Seeman, originally published here.

Cynthia McKinney participated in this press conference in Madison, Wisconsin on December 10th, 2007 as a part of her Heartland tour. Running time: 10 minutes for part one. Part 2 up available at: http://www.snowshoefilms.com/.

On Sunday, January 13th Cynthia McKinney participated with the other four candidates in the race for the Green Party nomination, in the first all-candidates match-up of the 2008 election season. The entire program is scheduled for broadcast on Tuesday evening, January 15th on KPFA Radio, streamed to the web.

In this seven and a half minute video, local Green elected officials outline the issues facing their communities and put forward a challenge to the candidates to address the crying needs of the communities they represent.

Over the next day or so, the entire debate will be made available here and elsewhere.