{"id":1322,"date":"2008-12-01T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2013-01-18T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:36:52","slug":"power-to-the-people-award-from-cynthia-mckinneygreen-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/power-to-the-people-award-from-cynthia-mckinneygreen-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the People Award from Cynthia McKinney\/Green Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney received recognition and thanks &#8220;for service above and beyond the call of duty&#8221; from Green Party Presidential Candidate (and former US congresswoman), Cynthia McKinney in December 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1323 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"McKinney_Green_Party_Award_To_Larry_Pinkney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/McKinney_Green_Party_Award_To_Larry_Pinkney-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Cynthia McKinney\/Green Party Award given to Larry Pinkney\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/McKinney_Green_Party_Award_To_Larry_Pinkney-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/McKinney_Green_Party_Award_To_Larry_Pinkney-1024x790.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>POWER TO THE PEOPLE<br \/>\nCynthia McKinney for President, Green Party<\/p>\n<p>Recognizes and Thanks<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Larry Pinkney<\/span><br \/>\nFor Service Above and Beyond the Call of Duty<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia McKinney, December 2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0887392865\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=blackcommenta-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0887392865\" target=\"_blank\">Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struggle-and-win.net\/13201\/43480.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney received recognition and thanks &#8220;for service above and beyond the call of duty&#8221; from Green Party Presidential Candidate (and former US congresswoman), Cynthia McKinney in December 2008.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>POWER TO THE PEOPLE<br \/> Cynthia McKinney for President, Green Party<\/p>\n<p>Recognizes and Thanks<br \/> Larry Pinkney<br \/> For Service Above and Beyond the Call [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}