Begin We the Constitution

by CaLokie
      We
the average CEO's who make 728 times more than a minimum wage worker

      We
the richest people who have more than doubled their net worth between 1994 and 1998 to more than $1 trillion

      We
the 55 white male property owners who counted slaves 3/5ths of a person when we wrote our country's constitution

      We
the CEOs of the nine global media giants which dominate film production, book publishing, music, TV networks, cable, magazines, newspaper and the like markets

      We
the 8 men of the electoral commission who by one vote chose Republican runner-up of the 1876 elections, Rutherford Hayes, to be President, withdraw troops from the South to end Reconstruction and pay the laundry bill for Ku Klux Klan hoods and robes

      We
the CEOs of the "Seven Sisters" who in 1974 owned and controlled almost all of the oil moving in world trade

EAT Liberty

      We
the five Supreme Court Justices who selected George W. Bush by one vote over the Democrat who beat him by over a half million ballots in the popular count

      We
the top three billionaires who alone possess more assets than the combined gross national product of the 48 least developed countries with their total population of 600 million people

      We
the richest one percent who earn as much after taxes as the poorest 100 million Americans

      We
the rulers of
      you
the people

 

 


Reprinted from Fall 2002 issue of Struggle, A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature.