Scene and Heard: Seeing Green in Nyumburu

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Chidinma Okparanta
Issue date: 2/20/08

Leading Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney urged a small but enthusiastic crowd of students and faculty to exercise political freedom in the upcoming presidential election and vote for "real change" at a talk Tuesday in the Nyumburu Cultural Center.

During her approximately 30-minute appearance, the former Georgia Congresswoman criticized the current two-party system, the Iraq war, the high cost of education and advocated the need to protect the environment. She spoke for about 15 minutes before opening the floor to audience questions.

"The two-party system has failed to serve the needs of the internally displaced," McKinney said, referring to the government's negligence in dealing with Hurricane Katrina of which she is especially critical.

For senior journalism major Matt Johnson, McKinney's rally was an affirmation of long-held personal beliefs...


McKinney seeks access to Georgia’s presidential ballot

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 04:06 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

She’s baaaaaaack! But not to run for Congress.

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, now seeking the presidential nomination of the Green Party, was campaigning in Washington Tuesday and told our colleague Scott MacFarlane of Cox Broadcasting that she’s working to get her name on Georgia’s 2008 presidential ballot.

McKinney, a former Democrat, lost her bid for a seventh congressional term in 2006 after she got into an altercation with a Capitol police officer. She left Georgia shortly after that, bound for California.

Still, there were those in Dekalb County who wondered - Hoped? Feared? - if she’d return to Georgia to challenge the man who took her seat, Rep. Hank Johnson. But McKinney now says that’s not going to happen...