USA: DREAM TO REALITY

Ali Hmeid
 PLAN

 1.The Colombus Day

 2. Free the Black People

 3.I killed the Bank !

 4. America now

 5.HPI
COLUMBUS DAY

• The anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in

the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492.

• It is an official holiday.
•Actual observance varies in different parts of the United States.
•large-scale parades and events .
•Most states celebrate Columbus Day as an official state holiday
•"Day of Observance" or "Recognition"
•Hawai , South Dakota and Nevada

•Berkeley

Indigenous People ’s Day

 COLUMBUS DAY
 “American governments have signed more than
four hundred treaties with Indians and have violated
them all, without any exception”
Howard Zinn
 “Christopher Columbus is a symbol, not of a man,
but of imperialism. Imperialism and colonialism are
not something that happened
decades ago or generations ago, but they are still happening now with the
exploitation of people. ... The kind of thing that took place long ago in which
people were dispossessed from their land and forced out of subsistence
economies and into market economies , those processes are still happening
today."
John Mohawk
“Columbus was a sadistic rapist, exploiter and conqueror. He did not discover
America, he pillaged a land of many nations that he found already inhabited. The
best thing we can say about Columbus is that he’s dead”.
John F. Kennedy
 COLUMBUS DAY

“After the theft of their lands, the ragged survivors were

herded into reservations and the government sent
missionaries to force them to become Christians. After I
had been interested in Native Americans, I realized that
many people do not even consider them as human
beings. It was so from the beginning.”

David Stannard «The  American Holocaust »

 FREE THE BLACK PEOPLE
 "Practicing intellectual self-defense, it's
just a practice of asking the obvious
questions. Sometimes the answers will
be immediately visible, sometimes it
takes a little work to find them.

Among the oppressed, we must understand that oppression is not only

unpleasant but also morally wrong. And it's not that simple. Practices
and conventions established in general seem quite normal,
unquestionable. “

Noam Chomsky
 FREE THE BLACK PEOPLE
 "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been,
in favor of bringing about in any way the social
and political equality of the white and black
races...I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of
making voters or jurors of Negroes, not of
qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry
with white people.“
 "The American government had set out to fight
the slave states in 1861, not to end slavery, but to
retain the enormous national territory and market
and resources. Yet, victory required a crusade, and
the momentum of that crusade brought new forces Abraham Lincoln
into nation politics..."
Noam Chomsky
 I KILLED THE BANK
 Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In
Jackson's veto message , the bank needed to be abolished
because:
- It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single
institution.
- It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
- It served mainly to make the rich richer.
- It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
- It favored northeastern states over southern and western
states. Andrew Jackson

After a titanic struggle, Jackson succeeded in destroying the Bank by

vetoing its 1832 re-charter by Congress and by withdrawing U.S. funds in
1833.
 I KILLED THE BANK
 Wilson named Paul Warburg , JP Morgan and David
Rockefeller to direct the new system. While power was
supposed to be decentralized, the New York branch
dominated the Fed as the "first among equals". The new
system began operations in 1915 .
 “ I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined
my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its
system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated.
The growth of the nation,

therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have
come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled
and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government
by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the
majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of
dominant men.”

Woodrow Wilson
 AMERICA NOW
 “the richest country in the world,
inhabited by poor people.”
Paul Krugman

 Problem of state nation

 Social Problems ( Obesity, health
insurance, social equality…)
 Cultural gap
 Social gap
 HPI
Subjective life satisfaction, Life expectation and Ecological footprint