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Letter to Hillary Clinton from Congolese elected officials
August 30, 2009
One is hard pressed to find media accounts of what the Congolese people want or how they believe that the United States could best play a constructive role in ending the suffering in the Congo. Considering that the United States has played a significant historical role in the stifling of the democratic aspirations of the Congolese people and the backing of the 1996 and 1998 invasions of the Congo by its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, which unleashed what the United Nations say is the deadliest conflict in the world since World War II, it is important to hear directly from the Congolese people regarding U.S. engagement in the Congo.
Cynthia McKinney discusses her upcoming Triumph Tour, Aug. 20-24
August 16, 2009
The SF Bay View newspaper is in dire financial straits, and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is bailing us out with her stimulus plan that comes by way of the Triumph Tour through Northern California that is being organized as a series of fundraisers for a very essential media outlet that amplifies the people’s voices in times of need and in times of triumph.
‘Mission accomplished’ in Gaza
August 8, 2009
On July 29 the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn hosted a standing-room-only report-back meeting led by several participants in the historic Viva Palestina U.S. convoy who returned July 17 and 18 from Gaza City in Palestine. The audience was majority Black.
Cynthia McKinney’s Gaza Solidarity Triumph Tour: Main event Aug. 20 Grand Lake Theater
August 4, 2009
Welcome former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, the people’s advocate, to your Bay Area city Thursday-Monday, Aug. 20-24. She’ll discuss her stay in an Israeli prison, her triumphant trip to Gaza and the importance of independent media. Click the picture for her schedule. Check back often for updates. Cynthia is our Paul Robeson. Show her your love!
Cynthia McKinney, the Israeli Navy and $4 billion worth of natural gas off Gaza
July 13, 2009
Upon her release and return, Cynthia McKinney spoke to WBAIX-New York from New York’s JFK Airport, where she reported that the Israeli Navy had towed the “Spirit of Humanity,” not directly to Port Ashdod but on a circuitous route, bypassing the Gaza Coast. This, she said, suggested that the Israeli Navy is engaged in activity that they do not want observed off the Gaza Strip, known to be the site of billions of dollars worth of natural gas reserves.
Cynthia McKinney: Letter from an Israeli Jail
July 6, 2009
The world saw Israel’s despicable violence, thanks to al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English. I saw those broadcasts live and around the clock, not from the USA but from Lebanon, where my first attempt to get into Gaza had ended because the Israeli military rammed the boat I was on in international waters … It’s a miracle that I’m even here to write about my second encounter with the Israeli military, again a humanitarian mission aborted by the Israeli military.
Free Gaza! Free the Gaza 21, including Cynthia McKinney, from Israeli jail!
July 2, 2009
“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip,” said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate, as she and 20 human rights workers and journalists from 11 countries on a boat attempting to break the blockade of Gaza were abducted and being dragged by an Israeli gunship to jail in Israel.
Despite Obama boycott, Black Caucus should attend Durban racism conference
March 17, 2009
I implore the members of the Congressional Black Caucus to spearhead the participation of the United States in the United Nation’s World Conference Against Racism: to boldly go where we have gone before.
Africom’s covert war in Sudan
March 13, 2009
I recently received a phone call from an investigator for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and I shared my uncertainty about the ethics of collaborating with an “International Criminal Court” that was only indicting Black Africans.
Will ‘San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Face of Israel’ be the next governor of California?
February 16, 2009
In March 2008, the Jewish Community Federation arranged San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s all-expense paid junket to Israel, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel.
The Obama-Nation
February 12, 2009
Will the Obama-Nation become an abomination if it fails to
stop the bombing of nations? From Gaza to Afghanistan, the
American people must take a stand and tell Obama to forge
a better plan to free the land.
‘The Emperor’s Clothes’ by Invincible
January 21, 2009
In response to Israel’s horrific attack on the Gaza Strip, Invincible has dropped a new track, “The Emperor’s Clothes,” which ties the attack to the police execution of Oscar Grant in Oakland.
Willy Pete vs. slingshots
January 13, 2009
“Israel trapped hundreds of civilians inside a school as if in a box, including many children, and then crushed them with all the might of its bombs. What were the world’s reactions? Almost nothing.”
The Gaza bloodbath
January 10, 2009
In a rare moment of honesty, the New York Times divulged the real motive behind the bombardment and invasion of Gaza: “to reach a situation in which we do not allow Hamas to govern.”
The great debate: Hamas vs. the U.S. Senate
January 8, 2009
For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world’s biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick.
Protesters condemn Israeli invasion of Gaza
January 7, 2009
Ahmed Alkhatib is a long way from Gaza, where he lived for 15 of his 18 years. On Saturday, he stood among the hundreds of protesters in downtown San Francisco, the day Israeli ground troops invaded Gaza.
The rains of death in Gaza
December 27, 2008
As bombs rain down, Palestinians call on all ‘freedom loving people to act immediately in any possible way to put pressure on their governments to end diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it.’
Israeli gunboats kidnap Gaza fishermen, peaceworkers
November 29, 2008
While Adham and the more than 3,500 professional fishermen who scour Gaza’s waters for needed sustenance and sources of income are accustomed to Israeli navy harassment, Tuesday’s encounter was different, heightened.
Cynthia McKinney stopped from leaving U.S. to speak in Syria
November 23, 2008
Today I was slated to speak in Damascus, Syria, at a conference to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 60th year that the Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that declaration. But I was not allowed to exit the country.