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April 21, 2002
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A
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Combing The Ruins of Jenin
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April 21, 2002
We Come For Peace
By Rep. Cynthia McKinney
[Remarks to April 20, peace rally in Washington, DC]
We come here today from the four corners of this
nation.
We are blacks and whites, Latinos, Asians,
and Native Americans; Christians, Muslims, and Jews; gay, lesbian,
and straight; immigrants and native-born Americans; rich and
poor.
Here today are representatives of all
sections of society: students, union members . . .
union members on strike . . .
homeless veterans . . .
and everyday warriors on the battlefield
for justice.
But despite all our differences, we are
here today . . . one community with one thing in common: a desire
to see the restoration of the true ideals of America.
America -- where fundamental rights to
vote, speak, and practice religion mean something.
A country that has a democratic form
of government, a democratic way of life and a nation in which
all can participate freely in political activity and share in
the abundance of its harvest.
But America today is still a far cry
from the noble Republic founded upon those words: "All
men are created equal."
We have not dealt well with our diversity
and too many of our citizens suffer needlessly.
Each day millions of Americans suffer
poverty, hunger, the sting of discrimination . . .
arbitrary arrest, racial profiling, and
brutality from rogue police . . .
inadequate health care, drug abuse, and
unemployment.
For the millions of poor Americans, ours
is not a just society.
More than 31 million Americans live in
poverty. One in every six of our children live in poverty.
Some of our nation's poor even sleep
each night on the steps of the buildings just visible from the
bedrooms of the White House.
And sadly, many of those who sleep on
America's streets are our veterans from US wars . . .
Sadly, nor is ours a democratic society.
In November 2000, the Republicans stole
from America our most precious right of all: the right to free
and fair elections.
Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary
of State Katherine Harris, created a phony list of convicted
felons--57,700 to be exact--to "scrub" thousands of
innocent people from the state's voter rolls. Of the thousands
who ultimately lost their vote through this scrub of voters,
80% were African-American, mostly Democratic Party voters. Had
they voted, the course of history would have changed. Instead,
however, Harris declared Bush the victor by only 537 votes.
Now President Bush occupies the White
House, but with questionable legitimacy.
But however he got there, his Administration
is now free to spend one to four billion dollars a month on
the war in Afghanistan . . .
free to cut the high deployment overtime
pay of our young service men and women fighting in that war
. . .
free to propose drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Reserve National Park . . .
free to stonewall on the Enron and Energy
Task Force investigations . . .
free to revoke the rules that keep our
drinking water free of arsenic . . .
free to get caught in Venezuela . . .
and free to propose laws that deny our
citizens sacred freedoms cherished under the Constitution.
We must dare to remember all of this.
We must dare to debate and challenge
all of this.
And that is why we are here today.
We come here today to chart a new course
for our communities and for America.
To fight against bigotry, we stand together
as one and we must.
To fight against injustice, we stand
together as one and we must.
To fight against poverty, we stand together
as one and we must.
To fight against the destruction of our
environment, we stand together as one and we must.
To wage peace instead of war, we stand
together as one and we must.
Because, through our efforts, I believe
we can once again, make America a force for good in the world.
We, as the world's most powerful nation
have a responsibility to act in defense of the weak and to protect
them from harm.
We failed in Rwanda.
We failed in Srebrenica.
We failed in East Timor.
And now, as we speak, we fail in Jenin.
Let us dedicate ourselves here today,
to join together as one.
When one person stands up and speaks
out for the suffering of the weak, a tiny ripple of hope is
created.
When numerous people stand and demand
justice for the multitude who have been forgotten, a strong
current of possibilities is created.
When an entire community stands up and
demands change a mighty wave of freedom and justice is created.
We gather here today and we speak with
one voice . . .
And let us remember, that one person
can make a ripple.
One ripple can make a movement.
One movement can make a voice.
And one voice can make mighty change.
Let us leave here today and make the
change this country needs to be loved and respected around the
world once again.
And remember one thing: Register and
Vote!
Cynthia McKinney
represents Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. She can be
reached at: cymck@mail.house.gov
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