2008 Green Party Nominee Visits Binghamton University

From the Walter Rodney Committee at BU:

2008 Green Party Nominee Visits Binghamton University

BINGHAMTON, New York – The controversial former member of Congress, human rights activist, and 2008 Green Party Presidential Nominee, Cynthia McKinney, will be speaking on the campus of Binghamton University in a forum entitled “Black in America, Black in Palestine” on November 10, 2009 at the Watters Theater of the Binghamton University Anderson Center at 7 pm.

The “Black in America, Black in Palestine” sessions are designed to explore the policing and confinement of cultural and ethnic groups as part of the function of the world-economy. “Black in America, Black in Palestine” will take place in three parts. The first is a private reception. The second is a round table discussion with Binghamton University students and members of faculty concerning intellectual and activist perspectives on Palestine and U.S. inner cities as places of imprisonment. The third is an address to the Binghamton community about the larger meaning of her experiences as a human rights activist including the hijacking of the Free Gaza and her arrest in Israel. This address is free and open to the public.

The Hon. Cynthia McKinney was a Diplomatic Fellow at Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia and has taught Political Science at Clark Atlanta University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her political career includes having served in the Georgia State Legislature from 1988 to 1992, and, in this, she and her father, veteran Civil Rights activist, Bill McKinney were the only father-daughter duo serving jointly in the same legislative body in the United States. McKinney made history by being elected to Congress in 1993 and served five consecutive terms, and her political comeback in 2004 was one of the most spectacular in recent congressional history. McKinney was ranked among the most progressive members of the U.S. Congress. McKinney also helped bring war crimes charges against Rwandan official for their role in the genocide that claimed over 6 million lives on the continent of Africa.