Today on a special July 4th edition of Flashpoints, We continue our reporting from the United States Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. We’ll hear a moving speech from an indigenous leader on the history of US imperialism in North America, Ziad Abbas of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh refugee camp talks about the history of US involvement in occupied Palestine, and South African activist, poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus in an intimate discussion on the forum, the movement and what keeps him motivated to continue the fight.