Putting Cynthia on the Green Party ballot |
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Greetings GPCA folks, all other Greens and visitors to “Run Cynthia Run” website. This website was created in response to the groundswell of enthusiasm for former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to run for nomination as the Green Party 2008 Candidate for President, to take place in Chicago at our Annual National Convention July 2008. After seeing many encouraging signs that she was interested in running, we California Greens were disappointed to hear that she intended to withdraw her name from the Green Party of California (GPCA) primary ballot, scheduled for February 2008. Many Greens believe that our California Primary should provide a space for a successful, independent, and progressive woman of color, a charming and green-minded politician who believes in and practices the 10 Key Values and four pillars, named Cynthia McKinney! Our hope that by organizing projects here in California, we Greens will motivate her to return to our California Ballot as a Green candidate in the upcoming California Presidential Primary. We see her participation in the Primary as a Win/Win situation: the best for Cynthia, the best for the Green Party, and the best for the people of our country and our planet! Please look over the website and join in our effort, by registering as an endorser, a supporter, a volunteer, or a contributor, and by attendingCynthia McKinney’s upcoming visit to the Bay Area 2007. The "Draft Cynthia McKinney in 2008" California Team CYNTHIA ON THE ISSUES “Why was it so easy for national Democratic political pundits who knew me to dump on me in the same manner that Sister Soljah was dumped on by the Clinton campaign? Was it that I deserved the mischaracterizations because I had dared to hold this Administration and America accountable on the 2000 election, the missing $2.3 trillion at the Pentagon, the Pentagon's corporate sweetheart deals with political insiders, US continued use of depleted uranium in Iraq, US covert activities in Africa that resulted in genocide, clearcutting of our national forests, a return to COINTELPRO through the legislation we were passing, the treatment of black people in this country? I had tried to take money away from Lockheed Martin because I feared the rampant racism gone unchecked. I had challenged Westinghouse and their running of Savannah River Site and the numerous leakages of tritium into the river. I had tried to stop the senseless weapons transfers to dictators and human rights abusers and I authored legislation to force overseas companies to identify the names and locations of their subcontractors who might be engaging in sweatshop labor. And I had forced the Pentagon to stop sewing its PX jeans in Burmese sweatshops.” … “We also now know that this Administration has kept many secrets from the American people: including, changing a September 11th Ground Zero environmental impact statement in order to speed up the opening of Wall Street. They have lied to us on Iraq. They still haven't told us what they knew and when they knew it about the tragic events of September 11th. And yet, they have intimidated the poor 9-11 families into giving up their right to sue the perpetrators and their supporters who helped carry out the 9-11 attacks. That's why my last piece of legislation allowed the 9-11 families to participate in the government compensation fund as well as retain their right to sue and thereby find the truth for all of us on what actually happened that day. “At the time, I even handwrote an impeachment bill I was so outraged. But my mother was more outraged at the lies in the local and national media and begged me to just leave it alone. And so I did.” … “Who are we and who's responsible for what we have we become? America is us and we are responsible for what we have become. If we answer in any other way, we are content to have others define us. Even others who have proven to us that they can't be trusted. “A young teacher recently asked me what did I think she could do, to advance the cause of people who think like us; I told her that the greatest gift my teachers had given me was the ability to think; teaching our young people how to think is the greatest gift our teachers can give, for it will be those independent thinkers who will save our country.” n Cynthia McKinney, receiving a Project Censored Award at Sonoma State University, October 4, 2003               |