McKinney Visits Atlanta, Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News
Marian Douglas
By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, The Atlanta Progressive News
(October 19, 2008)
Photos by Susan Keith, Staff Writer
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(APN) ATLANTA – "Green Presidential candidate and former US Rep.
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) made a campaign stop in Atlanta at an event
hosted by DeKalb County Green Party and the International Action
Center, on Saturday, October 18, 2008.
About 50 supporters gathered at the Little Five Points Community
Center for the low-key event which had been announced only a few days
prior.
Dianne Mathiowetz of the Atlanta IAC introduced McKinney. Atlanta
artist, Jibril, sang a rap song promoting McKinney. Guest speakers
included the present writer, as well as Bruce Dixon of the Black
Agenda Report.
"The idea of the vote is a powerful one that holds the imagination of
people around the world. It's the establishment's job to make sure it
doesn't count for everyone," Dixon said.
"A hundred years ago, Debs said we'd rather vote for what we want and
not get it, than vote for what we don't want and get it," Dixon said.
"I've been away from Georgia a long time. There's no place like home,"
McKinney said in her remarks. McKinney has visited about half of the
50 US states during her campaign, Hugh Esco, campaign adviser, said.
"I do believe the people do have the power. It is a power that is
unused and unflexed and when we flex our muscles, we actually can
win," McKinney said, citing the Civil Rights Movement in the US as
well as progressive movements through South and Latin America which
have brought leftist leaders to power. ..."
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