Due to a family health crisis, Cynthia McKinney will not appear at our conference.  We hope to bring you a personal message from her at our Friday evening opening.

Please note the new addition to our line up of Dr. Dahlia Wasfi .

Due to a family health crisis, Cynthia McKinney will not appear at our conference.  We hope to bring you a personal message from her at our Friday evening opening.

Please note the new addition to our line up of Dr. Dahlia Wasfi .

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Cynthia McKinney is a prominent human rights activist and politician. As member of the Democratic Party she served six terms as a member of the House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney as candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Cynthia McKinney is the first African American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.

Cynthia McKinney has been actively involved in the Gaza solidarity campaign. She was recently arrested on a ship in international waters and jailed in Israel, in blatant violation of international law.

McKinney served as a Commissioner in The Citizens’ Commission on 9-11. On October 26, 2004, she was among 100 prominent Americans and 40 family members of those who were killed on 9/11 who signed the 9/11 Truth Movement statement, calling for new investigations of what they perceived as unexplained aspects of the 9/11 events. McKinney was re-elected to the House in November 2004, following her successor’s run for Senate. In Congress, she advocated unsealing records pertaining to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and an investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur and continued to criticize the Bush Administration over the 9/11 attacks. She supported anti-war legislation and introduced articles of impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.