Greens court McKinney
Cynthia McKinney, the former congressional representative from Georgia, became a sort of hero to progressives by opening calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and for courageously calling for a real investigation of the 9/11 attacks when most of her Democratic colleagues were asking few hard questions and dutifully falling into line with the imperial ambitions of the neo-cons. And for that, McKinney was attacked by the GOP and abandoned by her own party, losing her seat.
So the California Green Party last month decided to nominate McKinney to run for president as a Green. Unfortunately, McKinney didn't bite and has resisted the idea. But she has agreed to a Green-sponsored tour of Northern California that starts today, which Greens are hoping will be part of the process of wooing her into changing her mind. So if you want a courageous black radical on the same ballot with Giuliani and Clinton -- or whichever Establishment candidates the two major parties are likely to offer us next year -- stop by one of the following events to say "Run, Cynthia, run!"
The following events are scheduled for this four-day tour:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4th
Lunch with Cynthia McKinney and the Santa Clara Green Party
1:00 PM
Vaso Azzurro Restaurant
108 Castro Street, Mountain View
Meeting with Cynthia McKinney in Oakland
6:30 – 9:00 PM
West Oakland Public Library
1801 Adeline, Oakland
Cynthia will meet with a broad cross-section of Oakland's activist community.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5th
Screening of film "American Blackout" followed by Cynthia McKinney Speaking on “Confronting Empire”
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar (at Bonita), Berkeley
Bay Area CodePINK Women for Peace host Cynthia McKinney
10:00 PM – midnight
El Rio Bar
3158 Mission Street (near Cesar Chavez), in San Francisco
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6th
Meet and Greet with Cynthia McKinney and SF Mayoral Candidate Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai
1:00 – 3:00 PM
Ahimsa Sumchai's Campaign HQ (formerly the Green House)
4919 B Third Street (near Palou)
Cynthia and SF Mayoral Candidate Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai will meet with Bayview residents.
SF Greens Host House Party for Cynthia McKinney
5:00 - 7:00 PM
A reception with Greens and other SF progressives to discuss issues and strategize is being sponsored by Vicki Leidner, John Radogno, San Francisco School Board President Mark Sanchez, school board members Jane Kim and Eric Mar, Code Pink and Global Exchange co-founder Medea Benjamin and Community College Board member John Rizzo.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7th
Impeach at the Beach, #4
11:00 AM
Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley Marina
Cynthia will join Cindy Sheehan and hundreds of others to chat, sing, and send a big message to Congress while helicopters hover overhead!
Vegetarian Potluck and Screening of "American Blackout" with the San Mateo Green Party
5:00-8:00 pm
San Mateo Ecovillage
3329 Los Prados Street in San Mateo
RSVP with Sanda Everette 650-574-7155, sanda@greens.org
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Comments (15)
What, no Ralph Nader? Do the Greens really think that we'll all forget their role in helping George Bush get into the White House?
Posted by jeff | October 4, 2007 02:02 PM
No, it was Democrats who abandoned the left in 2000 and let Bush win, then went on to partner with the neo-cons to get us into Iraq and Afghanistan, approve the Patriot Act, promote media consolidation and dismantle the regulatory system, confirm right-wing hacks to be judges, and tacitly support the warrantless wiretapping, torture, and secrecy that marked the Bush years. I don't identify with either party, but clearly Democrats deserve far more blame than Greens for these last seven years. Rather keep mindlessly beating this tired Nader drum, look in the mirror.
Posted by Steven T. Jones | October 4, 2007 02:39 PM
What I find so amusing about a lot of these Beltway Democrats is how little outrage they can muster about the atrocities of the Bush Administration. They come off as passionless, soulless drones who are resigned to the neo-con excesses of the Bush-Cheney Administration.
But talk about Ralph Nader, and -- oh my God!! -- they become the most angry, rabid, fire-breathing fanatics. I wish they could get this worked up about Bush.
While I have a lot of problems with the Greens and think Ralph Nader is a remorseless egomaniac who is too bitter to care about his complicity, I have a simple question for these "mainstream" Democrats:
Who do you hate more: the Republicans or the Greens?
Posted by Paul Hogarth | October 4, 2007 03:36 PM
What I find so amusing about a lot of these Beltway Democrats is how little outrage they can muster about the atrocities of the Bush Administration. They come off as passionless, soulless drones who are resigned to the neo-con excesses of the Bush-Cheney Administration.
But talk about Ralph Nader, and -- oh my God!! -- they become the most angry, rabid, fire-breathing fanatics. I wish they could get this worked up about Bush.
While I have a lot of problems with the Greens and think Ralph Nader is a remorseless egomaniac who is too bitter to care about his complicity, I have a simple question for these "mainstream" Democrats:
Who do you hate more: the Republicans or the Greens?
Posted by Paul Hogarth | October 4, 2007 03:38 PM
Yes, the Greens deserve congratulations on their spectacularly effective efforts to drive the Democratic party back towards the left. Oh, wait....
Well, at least the Greens have managed to convince the American people that the Democrats and Republicans are indistinguishable. Oh, wait....
Well, at least they can rest easy knowing that even if they had held their noses and voted for Kerry that all this Iraq, right-wing hack judge, warrantless wiretapping, and torture business would have happened anyway. Oh, wait....
Yes, the Greens are doing spectacularly.
Posted by Jer | October 4, 2007 04:07 PM
So now you're blaming '04 on the Greens as well? You people are shameless. Greens have no power and no voice on the national stage. Democrats control Congress and can speak through the national corporate media about anything they choose. And still we drift to the right, escalate war, cook the planet, and refuse to confront the byproducts of capitalism and empire. The responsibility for what's happening in this country lies with those in power and their supporters: Democrats and Republicans, not Greens.
Blaming Greens for this country's problems is like blaming the homeless for homelessness -- oh wait, I forgot, you Democrats do that as well.
We're all dying for a Democratic presidential candidate to speak truth to power and lead us out of this muck. Maybe that's Obama, but instead y'all seem ready to give us another Clinton, who is promising a permanent military presence in Iraq, a war she helped start, as well as a health plan and platform that continues to empower corporations over people.
Please, please, please, give the left someone to support instead of just trying to shame us into supporting another one of your bad decisions, like nominating Kerry in '04 (who I voted for out of desperation and felt gross about afterwards). Guess what? Never again. Give me someone who shares my values or I'll vote for a minor party candidate again and again, until this corrupt system finally embraces true reform. And don't blame me later because I (and lots of people like me out there) am giving you fair warning.
Posted by Steven T. Jones | October 4, 2007 04:44 PM
Spare me. I guess that when "we" nominated Kerry over Dean, the Deaniacs taken a page from the Greens and taken their ball and went home. But now Dean's running the DNC; and what's Nader done in the last 4 years? ::cricket::
Never has that been more evident. The Greens may have kept the moral high ground, but still managed to get stuck in the mud like everyone else. And they have no one to blame for it but themselves.
Posted by Jer | October 4, 2007 04:54 PM
The goal is to have a multi-party system in the United States. Democracy will never be served by having only two political parties. The dictatorship of the duopoly serves no one, except for the big-monied interests on the corporate welfare gravy train. Of course, you can still choose to vote for a Republicrat, hoping that some day they will miraculously change their ways and start caring about ordinary people.
Posted by Erika McDonald | October 4, 2007 05:43 PM
What Steve, Paul, and Erika said.
Posted by cat | October 4, 2007 05:51 PM
If he runs, I will proudly and happily be voting for Ralph Nader in '08.
Posted by expatriate | October 4, 2007 07:31 PM
> Who do you hate more: the Republicans or the Greens
I hate the Greens more, by a wide, wide margin.
Posted by jeff | October 4, 2007 11:00 PM
In response to the question:
> Who do you hate more: the Republicans or the Greens
jeff said:
> I hate the Greens more, by a wide, wide margin.
In that case, Jeff, there is something seriously wrong with you and I don't want anything to do with you. And this is coming from a 100% partisan Democrat who did not vote for Ralph Nader and probably never will.
I'm not a progressive because I'm a Democrat; I'm a Democrat because I'm a progressive. And there is nothing I hate more than to see the Democratic Party acting more like a Party than like Democrats.
You hate the Greens more than the Republicans??? Your priorities are completely misplaced.
Posted by Paul Hogarth | October 5, 2007 12:21 AM
CYNTHIA IS IN THE HOUSE.
Just to let you all know that Cynthia is in town and one of her events will be with Dr AHIMSA SUMCHAI, mayoral candidate, at her campaign HQ in the Bayview, this Saturday Oct 6th.
For more information check 'links' on official website at:-
www.ahimsa4mayor.com
Thanks,
Patrick Monk.RN.
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October 5, 2007 10:26 AM
Okay, maybe I slipped into a parallel dimension or something, but didn't the massive amount of voting fraud swing the 2000 and 2004 elections?
Posted by Aaron | October 8, 2007 03:19 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
Posted by jeff | October 12, 2007 10:53 AM