WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States thanked Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, Green candidates for President and Vice President, for their strong national campaign in the 2008 election.

The party also congratulated Barack Obama on his election to the White House today, and celebrated the election of America's first African American President.

"Even though we competed with Sen. Obama for votes in the presidential race, we're thrilled that voters have elected an African American President, something unimaginable a generation ago. We're just as thrilled that our own presidential ticket -- Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente are two women of African descent, and Ms. Clemente is Black Puerto Rican -- represented the voices of so many Americans who've been shut out of the system," said Clyde Shabazz, Green candidate for Congress in Michigan's 14th District.

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"Voters who were motivated by Barack Obama's message of change will now have to fight if they really want change to take place during the next four years," said Jill Bussiere, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "Rosa Clemente, our candidate for Vice President, talked about the Green Party's 'imperative' throughout the campaign. The Green Imperative will move forward during the Obama Administration, as people demand that change be more than a campaign slogan."

SEATTLE, WA -- On Monday, October 27th, during her recent visit to Seattle, Green Party 2008 Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney made an unannounced visit to the Gates Foundation. Accompanied by a few Power To The People Campaign supporters, plus Seattle Central Community College Black Student Union President Geneiva Arunga and Umojafest Peace Center Founder Wyking Garrett, McKinney arrived at Gates Foundation headquarters to hand-deliver the following letter to CEO Jeff Raikes. A video clip of this event should be available at http://freshfig.com/n5p/cmckinney_gfdn.html
by or before 2pm on Tuesday, November 4 (contact me at pwolf@mckinney08news.com regarding any technical difficulties).

"While the election calendar leaves little room at this time of year for public figures to have a private life," said the Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential candidate. "I hope that Senator Obama will have time to be with his loved ones at this tragic time for his family. I treasure my private family relationships as the basis which has made my own public contributions possible. I wish to extend my condolences to your entire family for the recent loss of your grandmother."

Presidential candidate and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney will join Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist and candidate for Congress, running against Rep. Nancy Pelosi in the San Francisco area, at the Campaign Headquarters with supporters of both candidates. Catch it live at: http://www.mogulus.com/GreenVisionCA.

Vice Presidential candidate Rosa Clemente (Green Party) will join a large group of community leaders at the SB3 Bar in the East Village to view the returns of the 2008 Presidential Elections. In what will prove to be a historic election regardless of its outcome. Clemente and other participants have encouraged and secured the attendance of a number of prominent members of communities of color throughout New York.

LiveStream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/greenpartyny

Please Join Rosa Clemente Tuesday night in N.Y.C., at SB3 Bar at 33 Avenue B, in the Lower East Side a traditional people of color neighborhood, as we celebrate! This journey would not have been possible without many of you, we will watch the returns, and at 11:00 pm I will address all my supporters and we will have an old fashioned Hip Hop Jam, until the break of dawn! Some folks coming through so far......

Rebel Diaz, K-Sallam, Hakim of Channel Live, Khalil Almustafa, N.Y. Oil, UMI of P.O.W and many other surprise guests! the event will be streamed live!

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"Millions of Americans who favor the Green Party's positions on the wars, health care, global warming, and other important issues plan to vote for Barack Obama, who doesn't share their views. It's not enough just to defeat John McCain and the GOP agenda," said Green vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente.

"Democrats have retreated over and over and voted for Bush-Cheney policies -- war funding, the unconstitutional US Patriotic Act, telecomm immunity, corporate handouts and taxbreaks, the death penalty, record incarceration rates, and a $700 billion Wall Street bailout that doesn't help working Americans. The only way to reverse the dangerous direction of US politics is to build a real opposition party. Voting for Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente will strengthen a party that's dedicated to ecological, antiwar, and truly democratic values and doesn't take money and orders from corporations," Ms. Clemente added.

I have to reject your premise that I will not win. As a minor party, we must define for ourselves what our goals are. We are launching a 5 percent campaign, because if the Green Party is able to cross the 5 percent threshold it gets the legal characterization of a national major party, and gets subsidized by the government in the same way as the Democratic and Republican parties are.

So 5 percent is a victory because, with what this Democrat-controlled Congress is doing, I think it’s clear: we have no opposition party in the United States. The Democratic Party railed against things like funding for the war and the Bush tax cuts that favored the wealthy, but they have done nothing about that now that they are the majority.

This report by Kathy Dopp, Green Party member and an election integrity expert and activist from Utah.
http://kathydopp.com/serendipity/

U.S. Election Problems May Affect Nov. 4 Election Outcomes
Recent news articles have reported:

I. Tens of Thousands of Eligible Voters Purged from Electronic State Voter Rolls
II. Purged Voters Must Use Provisional Ballots That Are Not Necessarily Counted
III. Electronic Pollbook Problems Prevent Voters from Voting, or Force Voters to Use Provisional Ballots
IV. Straight Ticket Voting Causes Vote-Flipping & Undervotes
V. Discernible Touch-screen Vote Flipping
VI. Indiscernible Vote-Flipping - No Rational Reason to Trust the Integrity & Accuracy of U.S. Election Results
VII. Voting Machines Not Working
VIII. Voter Intimidation & Dirty Tricks
IX. Unequal Allocation of Voting Resources