Candidate for Green Party strives to defeat two-party domination
[From: Daily Texan]
By Megan Kaldis
Cynthia McKinney, former Georgia congresswoman and current Green Party Presidential candidate, takes questions from reporters Wednesday evening. McKinney held a fundraiser at Ruta Maya Coffee House Wendesday in South Austin.
Social justice, peace and the rejection of current foreign policies that promote war were some of points advocated by a presidential candidate of the Green Party Wednesday.
People should leave “behind the constraints inherent in the current political paradigm that forces you to accept torture and war,” said Cynthia McKinney, presidential candidate for the Green Party and former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
People who believe in the values of social justice and peace and want to live them find it difficult to vote for the values in the paradigm of a two-party political system, Mckinney said. The Green Party creates a new paradigm for these values.
After six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, McKinney became a presidential candidate for the Green Party.
“I do not begin things that I expect to fail. That’s not rational,” McKinney said.
The Green Party of the United States, created in 2001, is committed to environmentalism, peace and social justice, according to the party’s Web site. They try to provide solutions to alternative energy, universal health care and corporate globalization problems, according to the site.
“My relationship with the Green Party had been long standing,” McKinney said.
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