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STOP THE ICE RAIDS AND DEPORTATIONS NOW!
The U.S. government is accelerating its brutal, racist offensive against undocumented immigrants. A May 12 raid at a Postville, Iowa slaughterhouse resulted in the unprecedented arrest of nearly over 390 workers — but this was only one of dozens of similar raids that are taking place every week.
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Green Party Nominates McKinney-Clemente: What's Next?
The July 10-13, 2008, Chicago Nominating Convention of the U.S. Green Party formally nominated Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente -- an outspoken Puerto Rican hip-hop community activist from New York City -- for president and vice president in the November 2008 elections.
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The Impending Financial Collapse and An Emergency Plan to Confront the Crisis
They look like the Hoovervilles of the 1930s’ Great Depression, and they are spreading from southern California to cities across the country. They are the new Tent Cities of the home mortgage crisis of 2007-2008.
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De Anza College Student Denounces Violence Against Women on Campus
The Organizer: Tell us about your struggle on campus to put an end to the rampant violence against women on your campus.
Desiree: Over a year ago, on March 3, 2007, a De Anza student, 17 years old, was gang raped. One of the players of the De Anza baseball team had hosted a party at his home. She had gone to the party with other female students. The young girl got drunk; her alcohol level was very high, almost lethal. Three women from the De Anza soccer team walked in on nine baseball students having sex with her. They tried to break into the room, but the door was being held shut by one of the baseball players.
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On The Black Nation and "Whiteness" in the United States Today:
A Clarification of Our Position in Reply to the International Socialist Organization
posted Thursday, 10 July 2008
In the March-April 2008 issue of The Organizer, we published a four-page supplement titled, "Should Activists Support the Ralph Nader 2008 Campaign?"
We took issue with an article by International Socialist Organization (ISO) leader Todd Chretien titled, "Nader, the Greens, and 2008" (Socialist Worker, Jan. 25, 2008).
We objected to the article's agnostic -- in fact, misguided -- attitude toward the Cynthia McKinney Power to the People presidential campaign and its groundless attack on Cynthia McKinney.
The root cause of the political mistakes in Chretien's article, we believe, is to be found in the ISO's failure to understand and support Black nationalism -- and therefore the right of Blacks in the United States to self-determination -- and in the ISO's refusal to call for the formation of an independent Black Party linked to the struggle to build a Labor Party. This, in our view, has led the ISO -- along with so many other left organizations in this country -- to "adapt to the insidious assumptions of the ideology of white supremacy."
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 Special McKinney Election Supplement
posted Thursday, 10 July 2008
As advocates for the U.S. labor movement to break with the Democratic Party, and of a Black-led Reconstruction Party as a critical step towards building a Labor Party today, it's clear to us in Socialist Organizer—just as it's clear to a growing wing of the Black Liberation Movement—that Barack Obama isn't about to embrace any of the platform planks contained in the Draft Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party. In fact, in his quest to be the best possible representative of U.S. corporate interests, Obama is distancing himself from the needs and demands of the Black, Brown and working class movements at an ever-increasing pace. This is the name of the game in the Democratic Party.
This is why the Power to the People presidential campaign of Cynthia McKinney is so crucial today, and why it must be supported by all politically conscious activists across the country.
Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report, put it best when he wrote in an article posted earlier today that, "There is a presidential candidate who is Black, a proven progressive, a person of courage and unchallenged integrity. Cynthia McKinney, running on a Power to the People platform for the Green Party nomination, wants to rebuild a real movement. Peace and racial and social justice cannot be achieved absent a popular movement, which in the United States must be led by African Americans."
We have published a special 16-page Supplement to our newspaper to present this Power to the People campaign to our readers. In this Special Supplement you'll see the following articles:
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The Obama nomination and why we should support Cynthia McKinney's Power to the People Campaign
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Excerpts from Cynthia McKinney's statement on the nomination of Barack Obama
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Cynthia McKinney's Call to Action in support of Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush
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Cynthia McKinney remarks in support of Cindy Sheehan's 4th Amendment Burial March: End the War Funding, Defend Our Civil Liberties!
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Cynthia McKinney addresses historic ILWU May Day rally in San Francisco
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May Day and Support for Immigrant Rights: May Day with Cynthia McKinney
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Open Letter re: Cynthia McKinney to our politically conscious sisters and brothers of Black America
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Cynthia McKinney statement in solidarity with the Mexican people and the fight to defend Pemex
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Cynthia McKinney on the Sean Bell verdict
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Cynthia McKinney's remarks to Al Nakba Rally at UN on May 16, 2008
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The Reconstruction Party and the fight for working class independence in the United States
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Excerpts from Draft Manifesto for a Reconstruction Party
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The struggle to build a Reconstruction Party: Excerpts from an interview with Cynthia McKinney
We hope you'll distribute this Special Supplement widely, and support the Cynthia McKinney Power to the People campaign. In this Special Supplement you can find out how.
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A Tribute to Pierre Lambert
The following is a link to download a .pdf version of our tribute to Pierre Lambert.
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Want REAL Change? Support Cynthia McKinney's Power to the People Presidential Campaign!
Barack Obama is creating a buzz on the political scene such as we have not seen in a long time -- particularly among Black voters and youth. He is forging an electoral grassroots movement that is channeling a lot of the discontent of the American people with the powers-that-be.
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Cynthia McKinney Speaks Out at Univ. of Maryland
[Note: On February 19, Cynthia McKinney, presidential candidate of the Power to the People coalition, addressed a gathering of students, faculty and activists at the University of Marlyand in College Park, Md. Her 59-minute speech was broadcast live on C-Span and can be viewed at: This link . We are reprinting below brief excerpts from this speech. -- The Editors]
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More Voices For McKinney
It is interesting that the nation's punditocracy, the talking heads who act like verbal sheepdogs of the American fleece, have almost totally ignored one candidate who can, in her single self, embody, not just the illusion, but the reality of "change", experience, a demonstrated stand against the Iraq War, and a life of living female.
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Excerpts From The Draft Manifesto For A Reconstruction Party
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
 Ralph Nader's Major Default in 2000
The most commonly held myth about Ralph Nader is that he is a “spoiler.” This, of course, is the line of the Democratic Party. The second most commonly held myth about Nader is that he is a socially progressive hero worthy of being a presidential candidate. This, of course, is the line of Nader and his dedicated supporters from both the “left” and the right.
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2004: Nader's Right-Wing Allies
In 2004, Ralph Nader, who had enjoyed a long career as a consumer advocate celebrity among the American liberal left, decided that it was time for him to shift to the opposite side of the political spectrum. We could speculate endlessly about whether this shift was one of cynical opportunism, or whether the man had secretly held many right-wing positions for years, and just finally decided to act on them. What is important, however, is to know the simple facts.
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The ISO, The Green Party And The 2008 Elections
Todd Chretien, a central leader of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and 2006 Green Party candidate for senator in California, recently published an article titled “Nader, the Greens, and 2008” in the ISO’s newspaper, Socialist Worker (1/25/08).
This article is a perfect example of how the ISO masks its opportunist practice behind very radical -- but empty -- rhetoric. Moreover, it is a prime example of how often the white left in the United States adapts to the insidious assumptions of the ideology of white supremacy.
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Cynthia McKinney On “Free Trade” And Immigrant's Rights
Brief excerpts from an interview with former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The interview was conducted for the ILC International Newsletter by Alan Benjamin, editor of The Organizer, on January 5, 2008.
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In Defense of Cynthia McKinney:
a) THE TRUTH ABOUT CYNTHIA McKINNEY AND “THREE STRIKES”
A dangerous half-truth is being bandied about on some Green Party list-serves, and it is creating some dangerous misconceptions about Cynthia McKinney. The misconceptions come from an often-repeated statement that Cynthia McKinney supported the “Bill Clinton 3 strikes crime bill” by voting “in favor of” it while she was serving in Congress.
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b) KEY NADER SUPPORTERS SLANDER CYNTHIA SCURRILOUSLY
Some long-time allies of Ralph Nader within the Green Party are clearly becoming very concerned about the possibility that a strong, progressive, and politically consistent African American woman might win their party's 2008 presidential nomination, instead of Ralph Nader. In fact they are so concerned about it that they appear willing to say almost anything that might potentially reduce her chances of winning, without regard for whether or not their statements are rational, or even true.
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