Bruce Gagnon Endorses Cynthia for President

Sun, 01/07/2007 - 02:40 — admin

Wednesday, November 07, 2007
CYNTHIA TURNS ME GREEN
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2007/11/cynthia-turns-me-green.html

I just returned from a breakfast meeting between Cynthia McKinney and some Green Party leaders in Maine. Cynthia has now made it official that she is running for the Green Party nomination for president. She is traveling the country to meet with Green Party members in order to secure their support and build a national campaign.

For the last four years I have been registered in Maine as no party preference. I call myself an Independent voter. At the meeting today I said I would immediately change my registration to Green Party in Maine in order to be able to support Cynthia's run for the presidency.

I've said before on this blog that I am an unconditional fan of Cynthia McKinney. I've followed her courageous career in the U.S. House of Representatives for many years. I used to watch C-SPAN in awe as she took to the floor of the House and said things few others would ever say about what our country was doing. She, long before Dennis Kucinich did, introduced the first impeachment resolution in the House. The Democrats became tired of her speaking truth to power and they helped to get her run out of her House seat in Atlanta, Georgia. The next term she ran again and got her seat back. Then the Dems turned around and ran her out again. Now she is free to speak the truth even more clearly and she is doing it.

McKinney will be focusing on jobs in a green society in her campaign. She told us today about having just visited with the Austria Green Party where they are turning their country into a model green society in order to deal with global warming. Cynthia talked about how people could be put to work learning to build green structures, repairing America's declining infrastructure and creating sustainable technologies instead of bombs.

That is just what we need to be hearing from someone running for president.

Cynthia defined winning as helping to build the Green Party into a viable alternative party in the U.S. that gives the future generations some place to go for political expression and change. Her ability to attract women, people of color, and disaffected Democrats and Republicans will surely provide the Greens the kind of boost they have long needed. How many times have I heard activists ask how do we develop connections to the black community so we can work together? Now is our chance.

For me the whole campaign makes total sense. Mary Beth and I gave Cynthia a $100 donation, which for us is alot of money. We see it as a good investment in the future.

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Comments

Thu, 12/27/2007 - 23:37 — TiyKo

Dear Friends of Cynthia McKinney and the ISS PanAfrakan Drum...

We endorse this candidate. To our chagrin, however, if we are not UNIFIED in this election campaign, we will divide ourselves yet again. We have seen what mainstream bi-partisans do with the Presidency. Obama supporters will not prevail even if, by remote chance, he were to win this Presidential election. The effectual lynching by a mental syndrome of division has already missed us one chance to elect our ancestor, Shirley Chisholm. Why not see, with the Green Party, what PanAfrakan women can do? We have already seen how PanAfrakan women have stood this country on its ear for centuries, usurping various and sundry historical attempts to destroy our very existence--including, but not limited to the ignorance and idle by-standing, even of others of our same or similar station. PanAfrakans were not supposed to still be here. But, against all odds, even today, our mothers--strong enough to bear up, under our being snatched away from their very arms--still bore among us, the brave and the bold, like Cynthia McKinney.
To the non-participating "silent majority" who do not vote or support anyone, we remind you not to be myopic…SOMEONE is going to get the Presidency. It has also been said that ANYONE who runs for president of this country is suspect. In the words of Sankofa’s Lead Instructor, Salim, the Barefoot Sage who coined the phrase and acronym, and to those who have for decades supported the “Phantom L-O-T-E” (Lesser-Of-Two-Evils)--in a dysfunctional duo-partisan society, we urge instead that "PANAFRAKANS UNITE" behind one candidate that will indeed make our V-O-T-E count.
--Akosoa TjuhuTiy, Curriculum Consultant for
Sankofa Community College
Isesea Sankofa Shule/Sukuu (ISS) Institute

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