In
the fight against bigotry, we stand together, and we must. In the fight
against injustice, we stand together, and we must. In the fight against
intimidation, we stand together, and we must. After all, a government
that launches wars to steal another person's birthright will do anything
to all of us."
Cynthia McKinney has made a career of speaking her mind and
challenging authority. She began on day one of her political life and
hasn’t looked back. With her opinions, actions, and even her sense of
style, McKinney has inspired both admiration and controversy.
During
her second term, her district was re-drawn and re-numbered the 4th
district. McKinney protested the new boundaries, but was still reelected
to the seat. She was a supporter of a Palestinian State in
Israel-occupied territory, and sparked controversy by criticizing
American policy in the Middle East. After 9/11, McKinney suggested the
President had received warnings. The criticism she received as a result,
combined with being targeted by the pro-Israel lobby, contributed to
her defeat in the 2002 election; however, she ran for the seat again and
was re-elected in 2004.
McKinney was a vocal critic of the government’s response to Hurricane
Katrina. When Nancy Pelosi encouraged a boycott of a Select Bipartisan
Committee to Investigate Hurricane Katrina, Cynthia chose instead to
participate and submitted her own report to the Congressional Record.
She continued her criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the
matter and its failure to secure a way back home for Katrina survivors.
Cynthia pressed for government transparency and accountability and
introduced legislation to release the documents related to the murders
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tupac Shakur. She was the first
Member of Congress to file articles of impeachment against George Bush
and she voted against every war funding bill put before her. Cynthia
was forced out of Congress once more in 2007 when she was targeted for
defeat, again, by donations from pro-Israel contributors that flooded
into her opponent's campaign coffers.
Cynthia McKinney has never been afraid to speak her mind, and stand
up for what she believes in. Late in 2007, she left the Democratic Party
to take her energy and ideas to the whole country by becoming a Green
Party Presidential Candidate. Cynthia won the Green Party nomination
for U.S. President and in 2008 ran for President.
In December 2008, Cynthia made international headlines when the Free
Gaza boat she was aboard was rammed by the Israeli military as she was
attempting to deliver medical supplies to the people of Gaza during
Israel's Operation Cast Lead. Cynthia and her fellow humanitarian
activists, rescued by Lebanon, never made it to Gaza. In 2009, Cynthia
attempted to reach Gaza again, this time armed with crayons, coloring
books, and school supplies for the children. She and her fellow human
rights workers became the Free Gaza 21 after their boat was overtaken in
international waters by the Israeli military and they were kidnapped to
Israel. Cynthia spent seven days in an Israeli prison. And again,
Cynthia did not make it into Gaza. Finally, Cynthia entered Gaza by
land in July 2009 with George Galloway's 250-volunteer-strong Viva
Palestina, USA.
And as a rider and a member of the support team, Cynthia recently
completed a cross-country bicycle ride with five other Bike4Peace 2010
cyclists who started in California and ended in Washington, D.C.,
speaking to the American people about the possibility of more peaceful
U.S. policies if enough of us are willing to participate in our own
positive, personal transformations.
Cynthia had not been on a bicycle in twenty years and faced many
personal obstacles along the way. However, she met this challenge with
her usual good humor and determination and by the last day of the ride
was able to complete over 60 miles on her bicycle. In August 2011,
Cynthia completed a very successful 21-city peace tour in the United
States, educating urban communities in order to promote a more peaceful
U.S. foreign policy.
In 2009, Cynthia conceived of DIGNITY as an international activist
peace organization to assert respect for human rights by taking direct
action for peace. It was under this banner that Cynthia took three
DIGNITY delegations to Libya, including one delegation of journalists
during the U.S./NATO/Israel aggression against the Arab Jamahiriya
state.
Since 2005, Cynthia became a supporter and follower of Tun Dr.
Mahathir Mohamad’s efforts to “criminalize war.” She has appeared in
Kuala Lumpur several times, declaring that city the Peace Capital of the
World. She recently reported on her experience in Libya in the “Arab
Uprising” Conference organized by the Perdana Global Peace Foundation
and served as an official observer at the historic Kuala Lumpur War
Crimes Tribunal that, on 22 November 2011, found former President George
W. Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of the crime of
aggression and other crimes against the state and people of Iraq.
Coming out of
the 60's into the 70's Russ was a rock n rolling bar fighting party-er,
consuming drugs/alcohol and searching every door to meaning he could get
his hands on. He was a dabbler in dark occultism and a practitioner of
golden Buddha meditation where he was trained in astral projection to
seek the ascended masters.... Russ says 'I sought to experience anything
spiritual, supernatural and alternative I could .....to find what it
was I was looking for.' But I didn't, instead I found myself on the edge
of death and hell itself.... see more below under Once Blind.
Russ Dizdar,
started out in the AOG Church, was licensed to and then Ordained to the
ministry October 1978 reformation Sunday at Green Baptist Church by the
SBC. He has served as Sr. Pastor of 4 churches in the last 30 years. He
was also Ex. Director of Greater Akron Youth For Christ, a Police
Chaplain UNIT 78 UAPD. He is (1982) Founder and now directs Shatter the
Darkness and Preemption Broadcast (2007). He has preached in Churches in
8 states, held training seminars and loves to do crusade evangelism. He
has launched web sites and broadcasts messages that have been heard and
downloaded in over 110 countries. The internet sites have gotten over 4
million hits by its 2ed year with over 700,000 downloads of messages,
teaching material with evangelistic effort and will reach 1 million
900,000 downloads of these messages with over 30 million hits for 2010.
Russ has been on
many radio stations for interviews most of which are archived on the
web. Russ has spoken and presented sessions at conferences in Ghent
W.V., Michigan, New England area, Sharpsville PA, Washington PA, St
Louis, New York, Indiana, Nashville Tenn. and Las Vegas, Groton CT,
Mansfield OH, Branson Mo, and Canton Ohio. He has launched REEP mission
trips in over 60 cites and one into France in 2012.
Russ has studied
at Cumberland College 'Biblical Studies', the University of Akron
'Criminology' and 'Military science', 2 1/2 years at Moody Bible School
and in 1984 at Malone College went through graduating services for a BA
in Religion/Philosophy, with advanced studies in Theology, Apologetics
and Greek.
He has studied
at Emerge counseling center...Basics of Biblical Counseling, Crisis
Counseling and other various training there. Training in Nothetic
Counseling, Theophostics, Wise Counsel SBC, Mind Control deprogramming
and Exit Counseling. Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy (OPOTA), UAPD
police training, DEFTEC law enforcement training in advanced occult and
cult crimes. 6 Specialized Occult/satanic crimes training seminars with
Tom Wedge/author of The Satan Hunter.
He has been to
many training conferences and seminars including those on Satanic Ritual
Abuse, SRA-MPD-DID, Mind Control, Spiritual Warfare, Abduction
Research, Deliverance/Evangelism and other various fields.
Youth for Christ
USA training in leadership, evangelism and youth ministry,
International Police Chaplin's courses, Navigators discipleship,
MasterLife and MasterBuilders discipleship/leadership training. Church
leadership, growth and other seminars, courses and conferences in Church
related leadership, management and development.
Russ currently
seeks to master NT Greek vocabulary & NT manuscripts and Systematic
Theology. Current aggressive studies include Surveillance Technologies,
Private Investigations, Criminal Profiling, Forensics, Counter
Infiltration Procedures and Trace Evidence. Trans humanism, AI,
Theoretical Physics, Political ideology and scoping out the rise of
luciferic globalism.
He has written
and taught 14 college level courses locally over the last 30 years. A
major course he as taught is 'Preemptive Systematic Theology' and offers
these courses as Internet external learning
