Cynthia McKinney Adds Courage and Energy to Peacestock 2011 - real news from Libya

I had the privaledge of hearing Cynthia speak in Northampton, Ma a few days ago. I couldn't find the video of the talk I heard but this talk is fairly similar to what she had to tell us.

Wendy

Noa's picture

Thanks for the post, Wendy.  She's a powerful speaker.

What is this term she is using, "hegeman?"

Wendy's picture

I think perhaps the correct usage would be hegemonic but I guess if you wanted to characterize people that way you could call them hegemons.

This is far from her most powerful speech, do a youtube search of Cynthia McKinney confronts Donald Rumsfield to see her action in Congress.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hegemony

Wendy

I bless her with Love.  Wow, what a powerful HEART.  I truly Bless her with Love.  --Fairy

Noa's picture

Thanks, Wendy.  From Wikipedia: 

Hegemony (UK: /hɨˈgeməni/; US: /ˈhedʒɨmoʊni/, /həˈʤeməni/; Greek: ἡγεμονία hēgemonía, leadership, rule) is the indirect form of imperial dominance with which the hegemon (leader state) rules sub-ordinate states, by the implied means of power, rather than direct military force.[1] In Ancient Greece (8th c. BC – AD 6th c.), hegemony denoted the politico–military dominance of a city-state upon other city-states.[2] In the nineteenth century, hegemony (rule) denoted the predominance of one country upon others; from which derives hegemonism, the Great Power politics meant to establish hegemony.[3] In twentieth-century political science, hegemony (dominance) is central to cultural hegemony, a philosophic and sociologic explanation of how, by the manipulation of the societal culture (value system), one social class dominates the other social classes of a society, with a world view justifying the status quo of bourgeois hegemony.

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I love Cynthia McKinney!  She was on the Alex Jones show a few months ago from Lybia.  I never knew about her until then, but now I cant get enough from her!  She really is a great and powerful voice!

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