McKinney's Political Past

Continuing on with our coverage of the Green Party, as they just nominated Cynthia McKinney to be their presidential nominee,  we're going to take a look at her political career. She is a passionate activist who has gone through some controversy.

McKinney comes from a political family. Her father, Anthony McKinney, was an outspoken member of the Atlanta Police Department later elected the first black Georgia State Representative.

She was first elected to Congress in 1992 representing parts of Atlanta.

For ten years, she was an outspoken member on issues of class and racial disparity and government secrecy.

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Arbitrary, bloated, inefficient and unchecked: that's the way the American Civil Liberties Union describes the Transportation Security Administration's terrorist watch list. The list now tops 1,000,000 names, and continues to grow at an estimated 20,000 names per month. The names include college students, heads of state – even infants, and countless more unsuspecting citizens whose only link to terrorism is a name that just happened to be too similar to someone else's. Caroline Fredrickson is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office. Fredrickson says the list is simply illogical.

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Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are addressing the annual National Council of La Raza conference in San Diego. Both McCain and Obama are using the opportunity to address some 20,000 people that have made their way to the 4-day conference – and both are talking about immigration. But as FSRN's Matt Laslo reports, immigration reform advocates say that at a time of increased raids coupled with no change in policy, words aren't enough.

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