Friend --
Join our symposium dialogue this Friday night, which will discuss
the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. I will be joined in
this dialogue by candidate Jose Vega and LaRouche Manhattan Project
spokesman, Dennis Speed. What better way to wrap up the 2024 election
than to discuss the goals of the American Revolution as our road map
for the future!
The formal beginning of the Revolution's 250th anniversary is April
19, 2025, in recognition of the "shot heard round the world" -- the
Battles of Lexington and Concord of 1775. The celebration will
continue through the July 4, 1776 signing of of the Declaration of
Independence, the 1783 conclusion of the war of independence's eight
years of sacrifice and determination, and the 1788 ratification of the
American Constitution.
The extraordinary success of the Revolution was a fulfillment of
centuries of yearning for the liberation from oligarchy. There was a
long history before the first shots were fired -- from Solon of Athens
[c. 630 – c. 560 BC], through Nicholas of Cusa [1433,
"consent of the governed"], through Gottfried Leibniz [1693 --
"the entire natural law is derived from the human necessity to
pursue happiness understood broadly as the obligation to grow in moral
perfection"], and on. The Revolution was supported in its day by
Schiller, Beethoven, Mozart, and Ben Franklin's international network
of scientists.
The disastrous wars and resulting economic hardship faced by
Americans today show that the ideas of the British Empire have
remained a corrupting and dominant influence in American policy. The
revolution is not yet done. Join us Friday night to consider: What
does it mean to "declare independence?"
--Diane Sare
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