{news} Fw: USGP-INT From Cynthia McKinney: In London for a Forum on Palestine

[Justine McCabe]

FYI,
Justine
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Subject: USGP-INT From Cynthia McKinney: In London for a Forum on Palestine


>
>>From Cynthia McKinney, March 28, 2009....
>
> Hello!  I'm currently in London, invited by the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to 
> Criminalise War, to participate in a Forum for Palestine sponsored by the 
> Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  The event is taking place at the 
> Marriott Grosvenor Hotel on March 31, 2009.  This one-day Forum will 
> feature the Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato Serri Rais Yatim giving the 
> opening address and former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Mahathir 
> presenting the keynote address.  I will speak for about 20 minutes on the 
> Genocide in Palestine and, of course, what happened to me in international 
> waters while on a boat carrying medical supplies, attempting to reach the 
> beseiged people of Gaza.
>
> Of course, it is right here in London that George Galloway's triumph must 
> be marked of reaching Gaza by land in a convoy of vehicles.  Even in 
> triumph, M.P. Galloway acknowledged that they still had to ask Israel's 
> permission for some of the vehicles to enter Gaza.  Nonetheless, what 
> Galloway did was absolutely phenomenal and those of us who tried to reach 
> Gaza by sea, through the territorial waters of the Gaza remained committed 
> to that goal.  However, we must deal with the issue of impunity.  Right 
> now, we see that justice is blind--meaning that those most in need of 
> justice are the ones to whom the system of justice constructed in our 
> country and internationally, is blind.  We must change that.
>
> For those of you who are, or who have friends who are in London, please 
> pass this message along.  It would be great if we could have a 
> better-than-expected turnout of our Power to the People friends who are 
> "across the pond."
>
> I am in the process of putting a message together on the current economic 
> morass into which Obama's economic team, following Bush's, is leading us. 
> In short, what Washington, D.C. is doing is devoid of all sense, unless 
> the objective is to aid and abet those who want to rob the taxpayer. 
> During our Power to the People campaign, we put forward some principles 
> that would ensure that the economy of the United States was one that 
> worked for the people.  In the time since then, I've met some wonderful 
> "people's economists" who point the way with practical policy 
> recommendations that are being ignored.  Heck, even David Walker, the US 
> former Comptroller, is still being ignored.  It's not rocket 
> science--although those in charge would want you to believe it is.  And 
> the it's not being done because those in charge don't want us to be the 
> arbiters of our economic destiny.  More on that later.  In the meantime, 
> enjoy this Bendib cartoon:
> (http://www.bendib.com/newones/2009/march/small/3-14-Madoff-in-Jail.jpg)
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