Cynthia McKinney & Rosa Clemente: Building a Movement For REAL Change

While CNN, ABC, C-SPAN, etc. did give some limited coverage of and to this incredibly momentous event; none of the pundits of these so-called “main stream news” media outlets dared elucidate to the “American” people the enormous present-day and historical significance and opportunities of what just happened in Chicago. None of these pundits dared explain and emphasize the revolutionary aspect of what had just happened in Chicago: That the Green Party and the Reconstruction Movement this past weekend, in selecting Cynthia McKinney as their primary standard bearer, is a stinging rejection and rebuke of the Democratic and Republican Parties [i.e. the Republicrats] with their putrid, hypocritical, corporate / military apparatus-fueled politics of dishonesty, subterfuge, smoke & mirrors, and unending wars abroad and increasing economic disparity and social misery at home. The sleeping dragon, consisting of the rank and file, everyday woman, man, and child in this nation, has finally begun to awaken once again.

By supporting the candidacies of Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente we are supporting a people’s movement – our movement for real, fundamental, “systemic” change, not mealy-mouth meaningless / feel good rhetoric. We are self-actualizing our hopes and dreams, not allowing others to pimp and manipulate us by playing on those hopes and dreams. We are supporting the very best in ourselves. We are laying the foundation in 21st Century “America” for a genuine and ongoing people’s movement that says NO to the corporate / military / prison apparatus of the U.S. Empire at home and abroad. We are supporting so much more than only candidates for political office – we are supporting our commitment to the building of an uncompromising, unswerving, people’s movement that is unhindered by this system’s Democratic and Republican [i.e. Republicratic] Party election time lines and political machine. We are refusing to collaborate with this Empire’s system of oppression. Rather, we are working to dismantle it and build a fundamentally and systemically different system that addresses human needs, not human greed. We are emphatically stating that we will not sit back and allow principled, intelligent, revolutionary / politically progressive, honest, and for-real women to be by-passed and ignored any longer by this system in “America.” By supporting the Cynthia McKinney / Rosa Clemente “Power To The People” Campaign we are making it crystal clear that we will intensify the struggle the dignity and human rights of all people: women, men, and children – Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow – all peoples.

For those who may not have seen and heard Cynthia McKinney’s acceptance speech on C-SPAN at the Green Party Convention this past July 13, 2008; it is urged that you turn on your computer’s speakers, view her presentation, and hear her remarks and those of Rosa Clemente on the internet at C-SPAN.org under the heading Green Party Presidential Convention (July 13, 2008).