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July 4th Celebration
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Rich Gardner | 07.06.2010
No politics in this post, just a pleasant day. The concert and then the fireworks occurred at Penn's Landing, overlooking the Delaware River. 
 Here's where the band played. From where I sat, I could see one person sitting at the very top.  People strolling about before the music began. Video of music playing (Video is a Flash (FLV) file. No-cost Flash players are available here and here).  Sailboat on the river. Getting steadily more crowded.  This was taken very shortly after I got a seat. Thankfully, I arrived in plenty of time, about two hours before the music started.  It got REALLY crowded shortly before the music started! Video of music playing as it began to get dark.  Fireworks!!! (Click on picture to download/play video)  And finally, the crowd after getting out of Penn's Landing and as they're wandering into the town. Lots and lots of folks stopped off to sample the nightlife, but most (including yours truly) just went home. |
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Nice
Submitted by Nathan Rodriguez (not verified) on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 9:30pmReally a nice warm day of sun for the celebration of the Independence Day, with a wonderful show of fireworks !
Good set of pictures, thanks for sharing it along with the video.
"Freedom Celebration" to some, perhaps...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 1:35amAs Eugene Debs said, "while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
And as Frederick Douglass said, "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour."
Read more about being imprisoned on the fourth of July here:
"Reclaiming the Red, White and Blue For All Americans"
by Beverly Henry, currently imprisoned in the Central California Women's Facility:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0105-31.htm
To help raise funds to reclaim the American Dream for ALL those who call this country home, check out the Justice Now stamp drive:
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/140904/0496b7bad6/1541003463/5a4bc98a...
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