I do not want to choose between the lesser of two evils, especially since I am no longer sure who really is the lesser evil. I do not want to choose between a flip flopper and another flip flopper. I do not want to choose between someone who supports the war in Iraq and someone who supports the war in Afghanistan. I do not want to vote for anyone who supports nuclear energy. I do not want to choose between two candidates who have received millions of dollars from special interests including donations from executives in the nuclear industry. And, mostly I do not want to vote for any man when there is a qualified African American woman candidate whose views are more in line with mine. Barak Obama has made history but Cynthia McKinney has made herstory not only as the Green Party’s candidate for president but also by selecting a woman as her running mate. A ticket with two qualified women of color, now that really is change. I could vote for the promise of change when it really is the empty words of politics as usual or I can vote for real change.

That does not mean we give up or abandon hope. There is a true warrior for the oppressed that is in the running for president, though you wouldn’t know it from the major media. This is someone who has stood for justice for young people, Black and Brown people, poor and working poor, unions and prisoners her entire political career. She is not bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby. She stands for real change around the world. I am, of course, talking of Cynthia McKinney.

She is a woman who stood up to a racist Congressional security guard who personally attacked her and she is a woman who would stand up for all that she believes in.

She knows she will not win the election, but if she gains 5 percent of the vote, she advances the Green Party, making it eligible for matching funds and making it easier to be put on the ballots for the next election. It is a move to validate a third party, which everyone talks of wanting, until Election Day.

Cynthia McKinney is nominated by the National Convention of the Green Party of the United States in Chicago on July 12th to be the Green Party Candidate for President in 2008, with VP Candidate Rosa Clemente - to see some REAL Change in the USA, vote Green this fall! Check www.runcynthiarun.org and www.gp.org for more information on Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party of the United States! This video (sorry for the audio clips) was taken right after the announcement that Cynthia won the nomination. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!

Professor Griff of the legendary rap group Public Enemy tells the world why he supports Green Party presidential ticket of Cynthia Mckinney/Rosa Clemente instead of Barack Obama. Don't miss part two below.

Workers World newspaper in the past has supported the candidates of Workers World Party running for national office in the U.S. presidential elections and who have put forward a revolutionary socialist program. This time we are taking the unusual step of endorsing the candidacy of Cynthia McKinney because these are unique times and this is a unique candidate.

McKinney, a courageous Black woman and former U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia, has become one of the most militant leaders and voices for the U.S. left, progressive and Black movements.

As National Secretary of the Workers International League (WIL), publishers of Socialist Appeal, I am pleased to inform you that our organization has decided to endorse your "Power to the People" campaign. We believe that this election year, your candidacy is the best choice for working people, an important step toward breaking once and for all with the Democrats and Republicans and building a mass political alternative that truly represents the interests of the vast majority of Americans.

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who seems poised to capture the Green Party presidential nomination, in Chicago, this month, "is at this juncture in history the only vehicle through which progressives can both register their outrage at Barack Obama and begin the process of rebuilding a mass, Black-led movement for real social change." Meanwhile, the frequency of Obama's Right turns seem to increase in direct proportion to the nearness of the general election. "Surely no one with a brain any longer believes that Obama is a closet progressive, or even a genuine liberal." The question is, How many progressives will put their votes and resources to honorable use?

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The platform on which McKinney runs is straightforward, eminently understandable, and in conformance with the substance and spirit of international law. It is what Barack Obama used to pretend to say, in front of progressive audiences, only without his mitigating language designed for ease of reversal - commonly called flip-flop, but more accurately, betrayal - terms that ultimately smother peace in a pillow of words like "respectable, responsible and honorable."

This is how Obama uses his impressive language skills: to lure constituencies that seek peace into the maelstroms of war; to assault the integrity of language itself with his relentless tinkering with meanings, until finally, his original peaceful promises turn into their warlike opposites.

Obama's modus operandi is consistent and, especially after his recent flurry of policy reversals, transparent to all who care to observe him dispassionately. He is a word-hustler, a slickster, a politician/actor who has always been eager to serve the global aims of the very rich.

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There can be no effective reasoning with those African Americans who want only that a member of The Race occupy the Oval Office - no matter the character and politics of that Black individual. But self-described progressives of all races cannot excuse their own docility in the face of Obama's rightward lunge - especially when there exists one last opportunity to threaten the Democratic nominee-to-be with a backlash against his betrayals of progressive principles - one last chance to affect Obama's behavior before Election Day, November 4, and beyond. Cynthia McKinney has made herself available to the Green Party's convention in Chicago, July 10-12, and will almost surely be their nominee.

If progressives cannot bring themselves to vote honorably, they can at the very least go to McKinney's campaign site and send money. Even a little principled behavior is better than none at all.

since i will vote for a woman instead of a man. anyday there is a woman running, I am going to vote for cynthia mckinney, green party candidate for president. the first woman in history to run as the nominee of a viable party is cynthia mckinney of the green party. the green party is the future of america. I do not think it matters who wins between obama and mccain at all. aipac runs both parties, bottom line.