Column: Meet the man who made it legal to burn the American flag (via latimesopinion)
Gregory “Joey” Johnson is not willing to say where he will be on July 4 — “It’s a big country, so who knows?” — but he will definitely be somewhere in the public square, advocating an end to white supremacy, institutionalized racism and police brutality.President Trump’s cynical demand
He is a committed member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, founded in 1975 by Bob Avakian, the group’s 77-year-old chairman and theoretician. He sent me a flyer for an Independence Day rally and march in Hollywood, sponsored by the local Revolution Club, though he wouldn’t confirm that he’ll be there.If you plan to burn a flag, by the way, it’s strictly BYO.In 1969, when he was 12 years old, he sold the Stars and Stripes newspaper to soldiers on a U.S. Army base in Babenhausen, Germany. That, he says, was the start of his political awakening.“We used to talk a lot about the [Vietnam] war and their sentiments,” he said.
“Reagan was backing all these death squads in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. People want to know the antecedents: How did we get to where millions of people in Central America have toand come here for a better life? Avakian says, ‘I’ll tell you why: It’s because you [messed] up the rest of the world gaining your riches and glory.’”
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