McKinney and Clemente on Democracy Now!

posted by Ronald Kane Hardy at Green Party Watch

Listen to, watch, or read the transcript from Democracy Now! with Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente here.

Here’s a teaser for you:

AMY GOODMAN: And what do you think, Rosa Clemente, are the most important issues right now? What are you going to be campaigning on around the country?

ROSA CLEMENTE: For young people right now, the most important issues is a dismantling of the prison-industrial complex; a livable wage; dealing with the AIDS pandemic that is affecting disproportionately African American and Latina young women; a real gender equity movement; a real movement where women, particularly women of color, are not marginalized in the media or at work; and really dealing with no healthcare and a lack of good public education, but also a lack of now higher education. No young person in America who can go to college should be in $100,000 debt. We are supposed to be competing with the best of the best, and we have over a 60 percent, in some cities, dropout rate of African American and Latina/Latino youth. So those are, I think, the most important pressing issues. And, of course, an immediate withdrawal from Iran. And we must not be duped that a troop withdrawal in Iran could also mean a troop transfer in Afghanistan and more young people, particularly white working-class youth, being used as cannon fodder.

An online petition is up and just getting started calling on the Major Media outlets to practice what they preach and provide coverage of ALL the candidates running for President.

http://www.petitiononline.com/mck79cle/petition.html

Cynthia McKinney was just in North Carolina yesterday, where they filed papers to have McKinney-Clemente listed as official “write in” candidates in November.