On Independence Day, 2007

"He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers ...For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments."

--- Declaration of Independence, 1776

Peter Miller, A Day Of Rebellion:

I propose celebrating those latter-day American revolutionaries who have tried to help America live up to its revolutionary promise: the labor activists, left-wingers, human rights advocates, and other troublemakers who have, like the revolutionaries of 1776, struggled against extraordinary odds to wrest power away from the entrenched and powerful.

Let's honor the 4th by remembering people like Emma Goldman and Mother Jones, Frederick Douglas and John Brown, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Haywood, Margaret Sanger, and Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Abbie Hoffman, Cindy Sheehan. and thousands of other courageous heroes who have tried to keep America true to its democratic purpose. (And please forgive such a short list -- feel free to chime in with more names!)