[Iowa-dx] FW: DC ADVISORY Green pres. candidate Cynthia McKinney to visit DC, Md. on Feb. 19

[Hart, Holly J]

THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY
http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org

For immediate release:
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Contact:
Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media
Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614,
mclarty@greens.org
John Judge, press secretary for the McKinney
campaign, 202-584-1021,
press-secretary@runcynthiarun.org


Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney to
make campaign stops in DC and Maryland on
Tuesday, Feb. 19

=95 Former Georgia member of Congress will speak at
Howard University and the University of Maryland
in College Park; Ms. McKinney won the DC primary
on Feb. 12


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney will visit the Washington, DC,
area for three campaign appearances on Tuesday,
February 19:

=95 Press conference, time (morning) and location
(in Washington, DC) to be announced shortly: Ms.
McKinney will discuss her Power to the People
Campaign for the Presidency
<http://www.runcynthiarun.org>.  Reporters and
photographers are encouraged to attend.

=95 12 noon: Ms. McKinney will speak to students
and faculty at the Nyumburu Cultural Center, at
the University of Maryland in College Park.  The
event will be open to the media and the public.

=95 7 pm:  Ms. McKinney will speak in Washington,
DC, at Howard University in the Locke Hall
auditorium.  Ms. McKinney will show 'American
Blackout' <http://www.americanblackout.org>, an
award-winning documentary on the
disenfranchisement of African-American voters in
recent elections and the odds she faced in her
own reelection to Congress.  The event will be
open to the media and the public.

Cynthia McKinney will be accompanied at these
events by Capitol Resistance, a hip-hop-based
community education campaign
<http://www.voxunion.com/Capitol_Resistance_Brochure.pdf>
<http://www.head-roc.com>.

Ms. McKinney, a former six-term US Representative
from Georgia, came in first among the six Green
candidates on the ballot in the February 12
primary election in the District of Columbia
<http://www.dcboee.org/nws/news_frame.asp?filename=3Dnr_140.pdf&mid=3D2&yid=
=3D2008&type=3DNews%20Releases&hl=3Dt>.
 Ms. McKinney also took the lead in Super Tuesday
(February 5) primaries in Arkansas and Illinois
<http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=3D22>.

The Green Party has opened a web page featuring
video clips of Cynthia McKinney and other Green
presidential candidates and debates
<http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php>.

For an insightful interview with Ms. McKinney in
which she discusses her background and political
experiences, visit
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3D1424663692856267230>
(standard rez) or <http://www.vimeo.com/680265>
(hi rez).

The DC Statehood Green Party has qualified to
send 16 delegates to the Green Party's 2008 Green
National Nominating Convention in Chicago, July
10-13, at which 836 Green delegates will choose
the party's presidential and vice presidential
nominees.


MORE INFORMATION

The DC Statehood Green Party
http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org

Cynthia McKinney's Power to the People Campaign
for the Presidency http://www.runcynthiarun.org

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
=95 Video of Green presidential candidates
http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php
=95 Green candidate database for 2007 and other
campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
=95 Green Party News Center
http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
=95 Green Party Speakers Bureau
http://www.gp.org/speakers
=95 Media credentialing
http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml


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