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By now you've probably heard about former Congresswoman and presidential
candidate <b>Cynthia McKinney's Triumph Tour</b> of the San Francisco Bay
Area next Thursday-Monday, Aug. 20-24. (See
<a href="http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/cynthia-mckinneys-gaza-solidarity-triumph-tour/">
Cynthia McKinney's Gaza Solidarity Triumph Tour: Main event Aug. 20 Grand
Lake Theater</a>.) These fundraisers are essential to the survival of the
SF Bay View newspaper. <br><br>
But more than that, they'll blacken the media whiteout of Cynthia's
recent and lifelong breakthroughs in countless struggles for peace with
justice. A full house at every stop on her tour will show the scaredy-cat
media the power of the people's love for the courage of this most
outspoken member of Congress in memory.<br><br>
Remember Paul Robeson? So adored that he drew massive audiences
throughout the world, he nevertheless faced a total media whiteout -
except for one radio station: KPFA, 94.1 FM - in the U.S., which snatched
his passport and silenced him for decades. Beginning today, KPFA
programmers are breaking through the media whiteout again; you'll hear
Cynthia on show after show over the next week.<br><br>
By promoting and packing each event on this tour, YOU ARE THE MEDIA THAT
MATTERS! You'll hear what the mainstream media has closed its eyes, ears
and mouth to. While Cynthia can shatter myths with her profound
understanding of controversies from the Congo to 9/11, her emphasis on
this Triumph Tour is on Gaza. <br><br>
Think what people glued to mainstream media won't hear: Embarking last
December on a Free Gaza boat trip to break the blockade of humanitarian
aid to Gaza, Cynthia was daring Israel to prevent the passage of a former
member of Congress through international and Gazan waters; she was never
in Israeli waters on either trip. In December, days before its air and
ground bombardment of Gaza, Israel ordered its navy warships to ram the
Free Gaza boat Dignity, nearly sinking it - and Cynthia doesn't know how
to swim! <br><br>
Returning June 29 on the Free Gaza boat Spirit of Humanity, she and all
21 aboard, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and
numerous journalists, were surrounded by Israeli warships, their boat was
boarded in international waters in what NY City Councilman Charles Barron
called an "act of piracy," and they were all booked into prison
for a week of catching catnaps on a concrete floor, eating meager rations
of mostly bread and water but also meeting many Africans in an Israeli
prison population that is - surprisingly - mostly Black.<br><br>
A day or two after Cynthia was deported back to the U.S., she accepted an
invitation from British Member of Parliament George Galloway to join Viva
Palestina, then stuck at the Egypt-Gaza border with a long convoy of
vehicles and medical aid for Gaza. She and Charles Barron led many days
of negotiations with an unfriendly Egyptian government that succeeded in
allowing some - not all - of the convoy to cross triumphantly into Gaza
on July 15. Black people everywhere cheered when they learned that the
only well known people with Viva Palestina beside Galloway were all
Black: Cynthia McKinney, Charles Barron and M-1 of dead prez. <br><br>
<b>Wait 'til you hear from Cynthia what she saw inside Gaza!</b> She'll
be armed with videos on her Bay Area Triumph Tour. People glued to the
mainstream media won't see them or hear from Cynthia, but you
will!<br><br>
DON'T MISS SEEING, HEARING AND MEETING CYNTHIA McKINNEY AUG. 20-24! DON'T
LET YOUR FRIENDS MISS THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY!<br><br>
<b>If you're in the Bay Area, please print and distribute the flier</b>
you'll see at the top of
<a href="http://www.sfbayview.com">www.sfbayview.com</a>; it looks
gorgeous in print. The file is too big to attach to this message, so
please email
<a href="mailto:editor@sfbayview.com">editor@sfbayview.com</a> and I'll
send it to you. <b>If you're not in the Bay Area, please forward this
message to someone who is. </b>Watch
<a href="http://www.sfbayview.com">www.sfbayview.com</a> for updates.
<br><br>
<b>Calendar editors, please print and post the following events</b> -
details are at
<a href="http://www.sfbayview.com:">www.sfbayview.com:</a><br><br>
<ul>
<li><b>Thursday, Aug. 20, 6:30 p.m., Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave.,
Oakland, $15 (no one turned away, space permitting), tickets available in
advance at the Grand Lake box office</b>
<li><b>Friday, Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m., Black Dot, 1195 Pine St., West
Oakland</b>
<li><b>Saturday, Aug. 22, 3 p.m., Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, Sonoma
State University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, $5, free
parking</b>
<li><b>Sunday, Aug. 23, 4 p.m., Lunacy Theater, Redstone Building, 2940
16th St. at Mission and 16th Street BART, San Francisco, $15 (no one
turned away, space permitting)</b>
<li><b>Monday, Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m., 33 Revolutions Café, 10086 San Pablo
Ave., at Central, El Cerrito, no admission, dinner available for a
reasonable price</b>
</ul><b>No jailing of journalists! </b>Join Cynthia McKinney for the very
first stop on her tour – attending the preliminary hearing on the
ridiculous, trumped up charge of felony arson of a trash can against her
good friend, POCC Minister of Information JR (who is the one to thank for
organizing Cynthia's Triumph Tour). You’ll recall he was arrested by
Oakland police, who know him well as their most severe critic, while on
assignment Jan. 7 for the SF Bay View, covering the first Oakland
Rebellion following the execution of Oscar Grant. Charges have been
dropped against nearly all the 100-plus arrested that night - but not JR.
The OPD still has not returned his camera, and they're still determined
to railroad him into prison. <b>Pack the courtroom Thursday, Aug. 20, 9
a.m., at 661 Washington St., Courtroom 112!</b> Stop the whiteout of
independent journalists! Support independent media!<br><br>
<b>Celebrate, support and join Cynthia McKinney at every stop on her
Triumph Tour, Aug. 20-24!<br><br>
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