[PAA-Discuss] [hq2600] From Cynthia McKinney: Live in Barcelona with the Russell Tribunal on Palestine

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I have been kicked in the shins because I failed to announce in advance my
February 25 speech to Olympia's Evergreen State College, the alma mater of
Rachel Corrie.  The students and community were engaging and we stayed for
hours discussing pressing matters of peace and justice.  The event was
sponsored by the Black Student Union and the Middle East Solidarity Project
and I thank them for giving me the opportunity to learn about what peace
activists are doing in that part of our country to resist war.

In accordance with the continuing need to press for justice and peace, I
have agreed to serve as a juror for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an
effort organized with the support of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation,
Ltd.  In this first sitting, we will explore the role and complicity of the
European Union in crimes against Palestine.  This multi-year, multi-national
undertaking will also sit in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the
United States.  The Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Barcelona will take
place March 1, 2, 3.  For more information, please click here:
http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.net/  and for livestreaming, please
click here: ***http://www.bcnsolidaria.tv/tv/<http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.net/ext/http://www.bcnsolidaria.tv/tv/>
*.  (The Tribunal starts at 10:00 am Barcelona time, which is 4:00 am
eastern time.)  I also hope to have it livestreaming on our dignity sites if
Don can get it up and running in time!!!  If not, we'll post it, but it'll
just be live for you!

After Barcelona, I will spend the evening of March 4th in Brussels with the
Congolese at a forum on the continued trials of the people of Congo who have
had ineffective leadership foisted upon them by the United States and
others, and insult added to injury with the continued occupation of their
country by Rwanda's U.S.-supported Paul Kagame and his agents.  Of course,
this isn't that Africans just love killing Africans, as some would
proselytize, including Margaret Thatcher's jailed, gun-running son.  At the
root of the violence is the fact that non-Africans want Africans' resources,
and they don't want to pay for them.  Coltan is just one of many prizes to
be had from Congo.  And, as Tupac wrote, "Give 'em guns, step back, watch
'em kill each other."

Last year, we were successful in getting genocide indictments issued in
Spanish court against Kagame's military henchmen operating in Congo.  The
lawyer who successfully pleaded that case, along with the U.S. journalist
who worked that case and testified for me in Congress on the matter, and the
African journalist who was taken to court by Kagame (and Kagame lost)
because he told the truth that Kagame was responsible for the murder of two
democratically-elected African Presidents and that Kagame's singular act of
terrorism sparked what has become known as the "Rwandan Genocide," have all
had their names appear on a list issued in the last two days that is
supposed to be a hit-list emanating from the lower depths of Rwanda's
leadership.  Any such list coming from this source is particularly
troubling--even if it turns out to be just a rumor--because we know that
Kagame had a hitlist of Rwandan government leaders who had to be killed in
his U.S.-backed coup against Rwanda's elected leadership.  The people were,
indeed, killed and no one has been held responsible for their murders.  It
is only because of the dedicated work of the lawyer who sued Kagame's
Rwandan military officers and a Spanish judge's sense of justice and
independence can we find Lady Justice peeking through an opening ripped in
Injustice's shroud.

In Paris, on March 6th, I will participate in an Afro-Arab Conference that
will conclude with a concert by Parisian Hip Hopper, Joe Dalton.

On March 8th in London, Dr. Nafeez Ahmed and I appear with the 9/11 and the
7/7 Tube Truth communities for an event at the Commons.  And, according to
eye witnesses, no, the British government didn't tell the truth, either,
about their Tube Terror tragedy.

I'll be sure to send updates and details as I move through this program.

Please share these events with your overseas friends and encourage them to
come and share and learn with us.  In Olympia, despite the fact that I
didn't send a notice out on this list, we had people who traveled long
distances, even from Oregon, to participate in what turned out to be a
lovely evening with the students.  I'm sure these Europe events will be
equally rewarding for those who participate.
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