During the demonstration, approximately one hundred protestors marched in the streets, chanted slogans, and staged anti-nuclear weapons and anti-war die-ins at various corporate offices. The demonstration was timed to coincide with the 1984 Republican National Convention being held in downtown Dallas. On 22 August 1984, Johnson participated in a political demonstration called the 'Republican War Chest Tour' in Dallas, Texas to protest the policies of several Dallas-area businesses and of the Ronald Reagan presidential administration. Īt the time of his arrest for flag desecration in Dallas, Johnson was a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, and had traveled to Dallas to protest at the 1984 Republican National Convention. After moving to Tampa, Florida in 1976, he joined the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, the youth arm of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. In 1973, he dropped out of high school and joined the United States Merchant Marine, which took him to Panama and Mexico, where he observed American sociopolitical and economic influence. His family returned to the United States in 1971. In 1969, he moved with his family to an American military base in West Germany, where he was influenced by growing opposition to the Vietnam War among Vietnam War draftees. Johnson grew up in a racially mixed, low-income neighborhood of Richmond. His mother, Sally, was a supporter of the civil rights movement who married a staff sergeant in the United States Army. His father spent several years of Gregory's childhood in prison. Early life, military service and early activism His burning of the flag of the United States in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting flag desecration, led to his role as defendant in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Texas v.

Gregory Lee 'Joey' Johnson (born 1956) is an American political activist affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party USA.

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