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Dear Friends,

Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia and current presidential candidate of the Power to the People coalition, will be in San Francisco on Sunday, May 18, where she will be speaking at a forum to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal [see notice below on Mumia Forum].

At 6 p.m. -- following the Mumia Forum -- Sister McKinney will be at the Brava Theater Studio in San Francisco's Mission District (2781 - 24th Street, between Florida and Treat) at a fundraising event for her campaign. She will give a brief presentation and answer questions from her Bay Area supporters.

Please join us at this important gathering -- and please make sure you bring your checkbook with you. We'd like to raise a considerable amount of money for her campaign. (For more information about her campaign, please go to http://allthingscynthiamckinney.org.)

If you cannot join us at the Brava Theater, you can still make a contribution toward our effort. Please go to Cynthia McKinney's campaign website (http://runcynthiarun.org) and make your donation via PayPal. You can also send your check or money order to Power to the People, P.O. Box 311759, Atlanta, GA 31131-1759. (Also please fill out the RSVP/Donation coupon below to let us know you have sent your donation, so that it can be credited to our fundraiser.)

Sister McKinney's Power to the People campaign needs your support, urgently. We are looking forward to seeing you at the Brava Theater Studio in San Francisco on Sunday, May 18 at 6 p.m.

For more information on this Fundraiser, of if you would like to help, please call 415-641-8616.

In solidarity,

Clarence Thomas, Longshore activist

Cindy Sheehan, Independent candidate for U.S. Congress

Kali Akuno, Reconstruction Movement activist

Alan Benjamin, Editor, The Organizer newspaper

Tom Lacey, Peace and Freedom Party activist

Martin Zehr, Green Party activist

David Walters, Labor activist

Christy Rogers, Peace and Freedom Party activist

Pablo Rodriguez, Teacher activist

Millie Phillips, Editorial Bd., The Organizer newspaper

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Sister Cynthia McKinney will be speaking in San Francisco at a forum to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal on Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m. The forum is sponsored by the Mobilization to Free Mumia. Other speakers include Walter Turner from KPFA Radio, Sister Soffiyah Ellijah from the Criminal Justice Institute of the Harvard Law School, and Cindy Sheehan, among others. The forum will be held in the auditorium of ILWU Local 6 at 255 Ninth St. (between Howard and Folsom). For more info on the forum, please contact 510-268-9429.

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