Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Candidate for President, to Visit Detroit for Labor Day

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PRESS RELEASE

GREEN PARTY OF MICHIGAN
MIGREENS.ORG -- the Green Party of Michigan's home on the web

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Contacts:
John Anthony LaPietra, Media Coordinator,
Fred Vitale, State Coordinator, McKinney/Clemente Campaign,
313-580-4905, freddetroit@sbcglobal.net, chair@migreens.org

Cynthia McKinney, U.S. presidential candidate of the Green Party, visits
Michigan

Detroit, Michigan – Cynthia McKinney, Green Party presidential
candidate, and a member of the first ever in history all women of color
ticket to appear on ballot lines across the country, will visit Detroit
August 30 – September 1. See Untitled Document

The Green Party of Michigan will be hosting a Press Conference for
Ms.McKinney, August 30, 7 pm, International Institute, 111 E. Kirby,
Detroit. The Press Conference will be followed by a Rally with other
Green Party federal, state and local candidates at 7:30 pm at the same
location, the International Institute, 111 E Kirby. The event is open
and free to the public.

Ms. McKinney will deliver a key policy speech on the elimination of
poverty at the National Welfare Rights Union Awards Dinner, August 31,
6:30 pm at St. Paul of the Cross Retreat House, 23333 Schoolcraft,
Detroit. (See Michigan Welfare Rights Organization .

The Green Party of Michigan welcomes Cynthia McKinney to Michigan. She
will lead the Green Party 2008 Slate joining our other GP candidates
including Harley Mikkelson for U.S. Senate, Rev. Edward Pinkney for
Congress in the 6th district, currently unjustly incarcerated in
Hiawatha Prison, and many Congressional, state and local candidates.

Cynthia McKinney is a six-term former Congresswoman from Georgia who
quit the Democratic Party on her birthday in 2007 because the Democratic
Party no longer represented her values. She joined the Green Party,
campaigned for its presidential nomination and was nominated in Chicago
at the Green Party National Convention, July 12, 2008.
votetruth08.com

During her time in Congress, Cynthia McKinney:

•consistently opposed funding for bloated military and secret
intelligence budgets;
•introduced Articles of Impeachment for George Bush, Dick Cheney, and
Condoleezza Rice;
•introduced, championed, and passed in the U.S. House the Arms Trade
Code of Conduct, prohibiting the sale of arms to known human rights
abusers;
•passed legislation to extend health benefits for Vietnam War veterans
still suffering the health effects from exposure to the defoliant Agent
Orange.

She currently serves on an International tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita and on the Brussels Tribunal on Iraq. She is participating in
War Crimes prosecutions in Spain, and is working with the Malaysian
Peace organization to criminalize war.

Cynthia McKinney’s long-time advocacy for poor people and her recent
participation as a Commissioner in the Truth Commission for Water Rights
held in Detroit May 3 prompted anti-poverty leaders to invite her as the
guest speaker for the Awards Dinner at the National Welfare Rights Union
Retreat.

Currently on the ballot in over 20 states, with the possibility of
several more, the Green Party presidential ticket is breaking new
barriers in American politics with the Cynthia McKinney and Rosa
Clemente campaign. The campaign has also gotten 14 of the required 20
states for matching federal funds in the primary season which ends for
us September 4.

The McKinney/Clemente campaign offers a profoundly pro-people,
anti-corporate program for this election. Ms. McKinney will not only
bring all the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, but from every
country where troops are stationed. She will reduce significantly the
bloated Pentagon budget and spend money here at home. She supports an
immediate moratorium on foreclosures. She wants to convert the prisons
for profit into money spent on education. She supports universal,
single-payer healthcare.

Ms. McKinney chose Rosa Clemente, hip-hop activist and scholar, as her
running mate (see Rosa Clemente - Vice Presidential Nominee for the Green Party). Ms.Clemente brings strong
credentials to this third party race. She is a founder of the Hip-Hop
Convention, a community activist and a scholar.