Cynthia McKinney for President web page
http://www2.runcynthiarun.org/
Cynthia McKinney Rosa Clemente for Presdient web page2
Cynthia McKinney thanks Noam Chomsky for endorsement
Cynthia McKinney today expressed her appreciation for the support of Professor Noam Chomsky, noted linguist tenured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In private emails with campaign supporters this week, the respected social critic noted that he had voted Green in 2004, and would be voting for the party ticket next Tuesday, as well.
2008-11-04
Cynthia McKinney & Rosa Clemente represent the kind of politics we all need to see in our own countries
I read the other day that Toni Morrison will be voting for Obama. A couple of weeks ago it was Alice Walker writing what I described
as "driveling bullshit." and one more example of the mainstreaming of the progressives - Rosa Clemente has a more definitive list here. Obama talks about bringing "fundamental change" but the only fundamental change is his colour and when one looks more closely even his colour is not that fundamental after all. Obama is intrinsically tied to the mainstream, pro-Zionist war mongering American superstructure. Though disappointing it is not so surprising that so many millions all over the world have been drawn in by Obama who panders to black and white notions of a "post racial" America and world. An imaginary world of convenience particularly for the millions of white people who will vote him into the White House. http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/cynthia_mckinney_rosa_clemente_represent_the_kind_of_politics_we_all_need_to_see_in_our_own_countries.html#more-2119
2008-11-03
As Lear workers' jobs vanish, their prospects fade
Working an auto electronics assembly line, Elizabeth Rondon, Nedra Banks and Eric Franks probably don't spend a lot of their busy lives contemplating the pros and cons of a merger between General Motors and Chrysler.
2008-11-02
First-Ever Layoffs Loom at Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service faces a serious financial shortfall that is accelerating reductions in its workforce and raising the possibility of the first-ever layoffs of career employees. Reduced mail volume, rising costs, and a newly enacted cap on rate increases all have taken a toll on the Postal Service's finances. A gradual shift to electronic communications and bill payment is shrinking the number of first-class letters, a mainstay of postal revenues. And the current economic downturn has led to drops in advertising mail volume.
2008-11-01
Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict
The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics - deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide.
2008-11-01
Climate change at the poles IS man-made
Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.
2008-10-31
http://gp.org/2008-elections/2008-Presidential-Ballots_1.htm
2008 Criteria for including Third Parties on
The Green Papers website as Major Third Parties
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T08/Criteria.phtml Those Third Parties (Parties which- unlike the Democrats and Republicans did not receive Electoral Votes through winning a plurality of a State's [or
the District of Columbia's] Popular Vote) receiving a minimum of 2/10ths of 1 percent of the nationwide Popular Vote in any Presidential Election between 1976 and 2004 and which fielded candidates in the previous presidential election (2004) are hereby defined as Major Third Parties for the purposes of The Green Papers website, subject to an additional criterion (which will be described below).
(NOTE: Excluded from this definition re: Major Third Parties are the following non-Party so-called Independent bids for President which also received at least 0.2% of the nationwide popular vote between 1976 and 2004:
- Eugene McCarthy in 1976
- John Anderson in 1980
- Ross Perot in 1992
- Ralph Nader in 2004
[NOTE: while it is true that John Anderson called his organization the National Unity Campaign and Ross Perot's first bid was under the guise of United We Stand, neither of these campaign organizations were, in any way, true political Parties. In addition, although Ralph Nader did gain ballot access in several States for 2004 via having been nominated in those States by a number of Third Parties (Populist, Reform, Peace and Justice, etc.) acting locally, his nationwide campaign was that of an Independent candidacy.])
The Third Parties whose candidate for President of the United States did receive a minimum of 0.2% of the nationwide Popular Vote in at least one Presidential Election between 1976 and 2004 were as follows: http://www.bloggingthedebates.com/
- AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY 1976
- CITIZENS PARTY 1980
- GREEN PARTY 1996 2000
- LIBERTARIAN PARTY 1976 thru 2004
- NEW ALLIANCE PARTY 1988
- REFORM PARTY 1996 2000
However, the AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY (along with other lineal successors to the AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY of George Wallace in 1968, such as the AMERICAN PARTY) has been, for all intents and purposes, defunct since the 1992 election; the CITIZENS PARTY has not been active in national presidential politics since the 1984 election,; while the NEW ALLIANCE PARTY has not fielded a national presidential ticket since 1992. This leaves, as potentially Major Third Parties under our 0.2% of the popular vote in any election 1976-2004-based definition: the GREEN, the LIBERTARIAN and the REFORM Parties.
In addition, however, we also now apply an additional criterion before finally accepting, for purposes of this website, a given Third Party as a Major Third Party and that is this:In order to be considered a Major Third Party by 'The Green Papers', a Third Party [again, not Democrat or Republican] which has received at least 0.2% of the nationwide Popular Vote in at least one Presidential Election between 1976 and 2004 must have also been on the ballot (voters having the ability to cast a write-in do not count), in enough jurisdictions, back in 2004, so as to allow that Third Party to have been able to, however theoretically, actually win the Presidency in the most recent Presidential Election. Put another way: a Third Party- even if it has received at least 2/10ths of 1 percent of the vote between 1976 and 2004- cannot be at all considered Major unless it had also gained the ability to win at least 270 (a majority) of the 538 Electoral Votes via actually having been on the ballot in enough jurisdictions (the 50 States plus D.C.) containing at least said 270 Electoral Votes in the most recent Presidential Election.
Under the above additional criterion, the REFORM PARTY (which only appeared on the ballot in 5 jurisdictions having a total of but 52 Electoral Votes in 2004) no longer qualifies as a current Major Third Party for purposes of 'The Green Papers'; whereas the LIBERTARIAN PARTY (on the ballot in 49 jurisdictions with 527 Electoral Votes in 2004) and the GREEN PARTY (on the ballot in 28 jurisdictions with 286 Electoral Votes in 2004) do so qualify- and, therefore, are hereby defined- as Major Third Parties for purposes of this website.
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