[PAA-Discuss] Fwd: [Fwd: [770discussion] Press release on CynthiaMckinney and Rosa Clemente coming to Houston (Cynthia in Houston Thursday, 10-30; Rosa here Friday, 10-31)]

[Art Browning]

I posted some info about this at www.hcgp.org tonight (front page &
calendar, with CM's flyer and link to same).
I'd like to get it out on calendars at PAA and HIMC and KPFT but am running
out of steam. (I have a cold.)
Help? I may get to it tomorrow night...
Love, peace and flowers to all. A

PS: I also forwarded to reporters I've met - those who have e-mail I can
retrieve.
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Presidential Candidate's Texas Visit Brings Communities Back to into
the White House Discussion


GALVESTON, TX -- 40 days after Ike and one week from today,
Presidential Campaign Team McKinney/Clemente will tour Tejas
beginning with the devastation in Galveston & Houston.

"Our plight has been overshadowed by the election and the economy.
I had been supporting Barack Obama, but I am getting more and more
disillusioned with the Democratic party altogether." - a native
Galvestonian, recently told the Power to the People Campaign.
"Seventy percent of the homes here were destroyed and this is a town
of sixty thousand people. That's a lot of votes..."

Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman who lead the investigation
into the federal government response to Hurricane Katrina, will be
in Galveston for a Press Conference on Thursday, October 30th. A
follow-up Press Release will give specifics.

Beginning 10 days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged parts of the
south, Rosa Clemente provided on the ground reporting as an
independent journalist to independent radio stations and mainstream
media outlets all over the world. Friday, October 31st she will
travel to Galveston.

Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente seeking election to the White
House in 2008. On October 30th and 31st, voters in Texas will hear
what these women have to say about current issues impacting our
local communities and those that continue to be put on the back
burner during every election season - class struggle, the prison
industrial complex, media justice, gentrification, a just
immigration policy, police brutality, war crimes and impeachment
proceedings being levied on those responsible in high office, and
addressing the Palestinian perspective in the Middle East.
Rounding out their Tejas Tour, Rosa Clemente speaks in San Anto Oct
30th at Ruta Maya Cafe and at HallowGreen in Houston, Oct 31 at the
Houston Institute for Culture. Cynthia McKinney will be speaking at
the S.H.A.P.E. Center in Houston, October 30th, be interviewed Oct.
31st on on KHVN-AM Radio (97.0) from 12-1PM, and participate in a
free, public Candidate Forum in Plano, Oct 31, at the MAS Youth
Center.

MORE INFORMATION

Location of Events:

S.H.A.P.E. Center at 3815 Live Oak, Houston, 77004 at 7 pm.
Houston Institute for Culture at 708B Telephone Rd., Houston, next
door to Bohemio's, 7pm
MAS Youth Center, 740 F Ave, Plano, 75074, 8-10pm
Ruta Maya Riverwalk Cafe, 107 E. Martin St., San Antonio 78205

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For further details:

In Dallas/Ft.Worth area:
Thomas Muhammad, 214-460-7672, tmuhammad2003 at yahoo.com

In San Antonio:
kat swift, 210-471-1791, kat at txgreens.org

In Houston/Galveston:
Don Cook, 713-705-5594, zenblews at hotmail.com

Green Party of Texas, http://www.txgreens.org

Recovery efforts in Galveston: Operation H.E.A.R.T. (Helping
Everyone Achieve Recovery Together) at San Jacinto Elementary. They
are accepting donations of all kinds of things, especially school
supplies, backpacks, clothing, etc. All money and items go directly
to Galveston students and their families. The center is open M-F
from 9-4.
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