your vote don't count...
funny, I just pieced together an explanation (conspiracy theory?) as to why I was never registered to vote. back in 07’ I renewed my license and registered to vote with the Green Party (*pat* myself on the back for that one) which is led by Cynthia McKinney… a progressive, borderline radical, BLACK woman. however, when I went to check if I was registered, there was no record. at that point I didn’t care anymore because she wasn’t going to win in the first place and was just proving a point by voting against the illusion that is the “two party system”. oddly enough on November 2nd 2010 @THE_Tabia and I threw a party called “YOUR VOTE DON’T COUNT” amid madd backlash from the “conditioned” people of facebook UGH. as it turns out we were right… again! can’t help that we are ahead of our time… as usual.
this is our low budget e-flyer we made ourselves cuz we self-sufficient
Open Letter to Gaddafi Supporter Cynthia McKinney from Disappointed Palestinians
yansoon.netpersonal commentary: you know i really struggle with revolutionary black folks’ support of gaddafi. i think sometimes we get behind leaders just because they’re anti-empire or anti-West, but lose sight of the desires of the people.
one thing i try to do is to defer to people in the country/region and listen to and support their opinions and actions. having been to the middle east recently i know all of the people i talked to were not in favor of gaddafi and other north african dictators so i try and remain respectful of that.
no tea, no shade to cynthia mckinney but on this issue i (personally) want to hear more from my north african and middle eastern brethren on the topic of libya.
Those who supported NATO's assault on Libya & those who were silent
uruknet.comBy Cynthia McKinney
November 13, 2011 - I was just contacted by someone saying that yet another prominent Libyan—a nice man whom I met—had been tortured and killed by the “rebels” who are now recognized by the US and other governments as the legitimate government of Libya. I hope this information is not true. Upon reflecting on the sad news, I thought about all of the people who were so sure that the lies were true; that the US military response was appropriate; in short, they told us that war is peace. Many spouting the palaver were people who should have known better. Instead, they lapped up the imperial lies like Pavlov’s dog, and proselytized war.
I recall those who were vociferous in their support of NATO’s assault on Libya and those who were SILENT.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, all but six members of the Congressional Black Caucus, most Black civic leaders and many Black media backed the President’s policy against the people of Libya or were silent.
How many “Progressives” affirmatively backed the President’s policy to unleash depleted uranium, helicopter gunships, bunker buster bombs, and these “allies” onto the Libyan population? Or worse yet, were silent? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Mission accomplished: Libya is destroyed, rivers of blood now flow, and the momentous plans for African independence are over. Gone is the visionary and well-financed project for a United States of Africa, a one million-person Army for Africa to repel unwanted invasion and penetration, and the projects that had already been approved by the African Union: the African Central Bank (to be headquartered in Nigeria) to issue a gold-backed currency; the African Monetary Fund (to be headquartered in someplace in Central Africa); and the African Investment Bank (to be headquartered in Libya).
War is a crime and the aggression against Libya is criminal.
Former Democrat congresswoman finds new job as Gadhafi propaganda tool
cnn.comUseful idiot Cynthia Mckinney is at it again.
“The policy of killing that is being carried out by President Obama has wiped out all of the moral credit that Black America accrued over their years of resistance to slavery, Jim Crow, racism, poverty, and militarism. The world understood that Black Americans had a different set of values. That they were against wars, against interference in the affairs of other countries, against imperialism, against colonialism, and against White Supremacy. Now, too many Black Americans cheer a President who defends targeted assassination, drone wars in Africa and elsewhere around the world, boots on the ground globally for the military-industrial-complex, and even torture. Sadly, now much of Black America has chosen to abdicate its moral responsibility and spend whatever moral credit they have earned globally in support of an African descendant President who has ripped to shreds the Bill of Rights, damaged life for tens of thousands of innocent individuals here and abroad hurt by the policies of this Administration, not to mention those who have been killed and will be deformed due to the massive depleted uranium being used. ---Cynthia McKinney”
—http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/02/cynthia-mckinney-on-leadership/
Cynthia McKinney held briefly on return from Pakistan
opednews.comOn December 12, former six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was detained briefly at Atlanta airport while entering the United States on her return from a visit to Pakistan where she campaigned for the release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui who is serving 86-year imprisonment for her alleged attempt to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan.
When she was asked by a women official who she visited in Pakistan, “I told her Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s family.” She asked me who else and I responded ambassadors, diplomats, academicians, because lots of Pakistanis studied in the U.S.
In a piece titled “The Soft Repression Continues,” published on December 13 by Op Ed News, McKinney provided a graphic account of her encounter with the officials:
“I asked them ” why I was getting this individualized attention. They responded that they were just following orders”. One respectfully said that Pakistan was a country of interest due to training camps. I responded, “you mean the US training camps?” He smiled knowingly.”
This was probably second time McKinney was questioned on her return from abroad. About such encounters with US officials she says: “Each time such searches give me an opportunity to spread the good news about the work that we must do for peace and for justice, I will do so while highlighting the contradictions.”
Eyewitness Libya: Cynthia McKinney speaks out against the US/NATO bombings of Tripoli
“Minneapolis, MN - Cynthia McKinney, former six-term member of the House of Representatives, and Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, spoke to a packed room of over 60 supporters, July 9, at the Plymouth Congregational Church. Both gave motivating speeches for how the U.S./NATO intervention in Libya is endangering and killing the civilian population and demanded an immediate end to the war on Libya.
President Obama claims U.S. involvement in Libya is not a ‘war,’ but McKinney’s firsthand testimony of the nighttime and daytime bombing of Tripoli, the country’s largest urban center, during her month long stay disputed that claim. She saw missiles fly over her head and heard drones and bombing attacks repeatedly. “The bombing for me, and I was only there for a couple of weeks, takes a psychological toll. If I’m subject to it, imagine the children. That first day of intense bombing took place on the day of national exams for the little kids…The first day of the super intensive bombing they started bombing at 11:30 in the morning and kept on going until 11:30 at night. We counted a total of 89 bombs that day,” McKinney told the audience.
During her stay McKinney had the opportunity to meet with people who were carrying out their everyday lives as an act of resistance to the U.S./NATO bombing campaign. She occupied the plaza in front of Momar Qadafi’s home with thousands of Libyans and Africans who support Qadafi, refuse to leave and are offering themselves as protection from bombing. She met with students who came to the university to take their finals despite the bombing raids because they refused to put their lives on hold because of U.S. imperialism. “They said they were not going to be deterred because of NATO.”
Both McKinney and Flounders addressed the roots of the conflict directly. They argued effectively that the U.S. and NATO are using the civil war as an excuse to carry out regime change in Libya. They articulated that the U.S. and European powers want to install a puppet government so they can control the largest oil reserves in Africa.
Flounders attacked one of President Obama’s main justifications for the war, “He says this war is for humanitarian intervention. This is an excuse. There is not a country in the world that is better off after U.S. warfare. Just ask the people of Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan!”
This event was a part of the national speaking tour of the Dignity delegation, which was lead by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. This tour is playing an important role in giving voice to the Libyan people during a time when an increasing number of Americans are strongly questioning the U.S. role in this conflict while state and federal governments are in debt and cutting needed social services. By a margin of 2-to-1, people in the United States oppose the war in Libya.
The Eyewitness Libya event was co-sponsored by the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, the Emergency Committee to Stop U.S./NATO War on Libya, the Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, the Twin Cities Peace Campaign and Women Against Military Madness.”
-FRSO staff
