What Does the Fourth of July REALLY Mean to the 99%?

[ckaihatsu]

[icffmaj] Join the Rally 3 July to Free Mumia & End the New Jim Crow System!



What Does the Fourth of July REALLY Mean to the 99%?

NOTHING if you are among those who have been brutalized by a racist police force whose job is to protect the fortunes of the 1%

NOTHING if you are among those who have been unjustly incarcerated to protect the system controlled by the 1%

NOTHING if you are among those who have lost their jobs, homes, healthcare, and who have been relegated to third-rate education because the 1% doesn't need you

NOTHING if you are among the scores of political prisoners held in U.S. jails for exposing and fighting against the crimes of the 1%

Twenty-nine years ago, on July 3, 1982, Mumia Abu-Jamal became one of those political prisoners after being sentenced to death in a farce of a trial conducted by agents of the 1%

Last December, after a long struggle, we of the 99% won a major victory when the state gave up trying to murder Mumia.
Nevertheless, although innocent, he is still not free, and is still threatened by racist and fascist prison guards and their jailhouse collaborators.

NOW IS THE TIME TO COME TOGETHER, BUILD ON THAT VICTORY AND PICK UP THE WORK TO FREE MUMIA AND ALL THE OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS, END THE DEATH PENALTY, AND DISMANTLE THE SYSTEM OF MASS INCARCERATION ("THE NEW JIM CROW")

WHEN: TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012, 12:00 – 6:00 PM
WHERE: 5th AND MARKET ST., IN FRONT OF THE VISITOR CENTER

[The Red Black]

What are yo talkin bout? Da 99% never was brou over on da boat anyway.

[Catma]

It means fireworks and bbqs.

[Lynx]

It's a paid holiday?

[Book O'Dead]

judging by the mass participation in 4th of July celebrations, it seems to me that it still means something to the so-called 99%.

To me, Independence Day is a day in which Americans celebrate their Revolution against British tyranny. I like that.

[Prometeo liberado]

It's a great day to get paid time and a half!

[Positivist]

Good excuse to drink beer.

[Sea]

Is it just me, or is the 1% just the way that moderates say 'bourgeois'?

[International_Solidarity]

The Fourth Of July means absolutely nothing to the Proletariat. It is just another holiday that the Bourgeois use as a means of making massive amounts of profit. :/

Seriously, why are there no real holidays in the USA that DONT involve spending money?? The Bourgeois dominate this sad country. :(
Although this is no news to me of course.

[Lynx]

The bourgeoisie would be more than 1%.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Good excuse to drink beer.

Are there bad excuses to drink beer?

[RedAnarchist]

Is it just me, or is the 1% just the way that moderates say 'bourgeois'?

Probably, and mostly to separate themselves from the revolutionary left. Saying "1%" is so much more safer, and acceptable to the rich and powerful, than using a word people strongly associate with communism, the "old enemy" of the Cold War,

[GiantMonkeyMan]

What does July 4th mean to the 95% that don't live in the US? Will Smith and alien invasions.

[homegrown terror]

What does July 4th mean to the 95% that don't live in the US? Will Smith and alien invasions.

much better than any of the "real" shit it's supposed to stand for.

[Misanthrope]

It (usually) means a day off from work.

[Blake's Baby]

Gotta back GiantMonkeyMan here - assuming that the '1%' is evenly divided across the planet and not particularly concentrated (arguable) then 95% of the '99%' doesn't give a shit about 4th of July.

So, what about 'the 4.95%' which is the population of the US that isn't part of the global 1% (I think, percentages were never my strong point, but about 5% of global population lives in the USA, and if 1% of that is the elite that means the US elite is 1/2000 of global population or 0.05%... and the 99% who are in the US and not part of the elite are 4.95% of global population... one wonders why the US gets so much attention).

[ckaihatsu]

Gotta back GiantMonkeyMan here - assuming that the '1%' is evenly divided across the planet and not particularly concentrated (arguable) then 95% of the '99%' doesn't give a shit about 4th of July.

So, what about 'the 4.95%' which is the population of the US that isn't part of the global 1% (I think, percentages were never my strong point, but about 5% of global population lives in the USA, and if 1% of that is the elite that means the US elite is 1/2000 of global population or 0.05%... and the 99% who are in the US and not part of the elite are 4.95% of global population... one wonders why the US gets so much attention).


From what I can see the U.S. used up its remaining political capital in the last decade and is no longer looked-to as the de facto economic hegemon that it once was. On the other hand its competition, the EU with its Euro, is also sinking into the quicksand as world capitalism on the whole is hitting the wall.