Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party of the United States presidential nomination at the July 12 GP-US Convention in Chicago. McKinney, a former Member of Congress from Georgia, received 313 of 532 first round votes to earn nomination by Greens delegates from across the country excited that she will be their standard bearer this year. Hip-hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente was selected to be the vice-presidential candidate of the Greens.

An Election Without Meaning
 
By Peter Phillips, roject Censored 

Will November 2008 bring a meaningful change to America? Will getting rid of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney without impeachment or indictment really make a difference? Will a 600 billion dollar war/defense budget be cut in half and used for desperately needed domestic spending? Will the ninety-three billion dollars profits in the private health insurance companies—those parasitic intermediates between you and your doctor—be used instead for full health care coverage for all? Will Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus be restored to the people? Will torture stop and the US withdraw from Iraq immediately? Will all students in public universities be able to enroll for free? Will the US national security agencies stop mass spying on our personal communications? Will the neo-conservative agenda of total military domination of the world be reversed?

For the longest time Greens have been discussing Cynthia's situation and many have argued that in order for her to get the Green Party support she will need to make a choice.

In the past few month Cynthia has traveled throughout the US and held fundraisers put on by Greens to retire her last campaign debt which was accomplished a few weeks ago. But time and again Greens ask, why are we helping a Democrat? They are not doing anything for us. In fact it is the Democrats, lead by their progressive arm that is constantly trying to prevent the Greens to participate in the political process.