250 years after the Declaration of Independence was ratified at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, our Republic is now hanging by a thread. The inalienable rights expressed in our Declaration of Independence and in our Bill of Rights are being trampled on by those elected officials who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Rather than forming a more perfect union, our citizens are being divided and turned against one another by incendiary propaganda in the mainstream and social media. Judges who sought to uphold justice are being fired and replaced by political hacks. Rather than seeking peaceful relations with other nations, as President George Washington advised in his Farewell Address, we are now governed by the tyrannical philosophy that “might makes right.”
The government of the United States depends on the consent of the governed. If we do not act and if we do not speak, our consent is taken for granted.
“The state must never become, in any way, the property of a governing class of oligarchs, but a state whose will must be subordinated to the world-historical national interest of all members of the nation, and also humanity as a whole, as reason defines that interest.”
–Lyndon LaRouche, 1998
Panel I- Renaissance Roots of American Revolution – Moderator, Anastasia Battle
- Musical introduction
- Diane Sare – America and the World in 2076
- Helga Zepp-LaRouche – Nicholas of Cusa and the American Republic
- Jacques Cheminade – Make the American Revolution Universal Again
- Christopher Sare – The Renaissance Roots of the Republic
- David Shavin – Franklin and Leibniz: “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
Panel II – How the Nation Was Won – Moderator, Dennis Speed
- Musical introduction
- Christopher Sare – What is the American System
- Robert Wesser – “A New Fabric Destined to Cover the Surface of the Globe”
- Steve Douglas – Asymmetric Warfare in the American Revolution
- Jose Vega – Gouverneur Morris and the U.S. Constitution
- Richard Freeman – Abraham Lincoln: The President Who Taught Shakespeare, Burns and Poe to America
- Anton Chaitkin – Teddy Roosevelt: Treason in America
Panel III – American Prometheus – Moderator, Elliot Greenspan
- Musical introduction
- Jason Ross – Technology, American Ingenuity, and Economic Science
- Cal Smith – Space Exploration: Not an Option But a Joy
- Fox Green – The Hudson River School
- Dennis Speed – American Cultural Warfare vs. the Oligarchy