There's Work We Have To Do, and For That, We Need a New Paradigm of Thinking

September 17, 2007 (LPAC)--The afternoon session of the Kiedrich Schiller Institute conference, yesterday, began with a speech by Amelia Boynton Robinson, looking back on her decades-long struggle for justice and human dignity, both in the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, later on with the LaRouche movement. There was that very crucial step by Rosa Parks, who simply refused to take a seat far in the back of the bus where white racists wanted her to go, and she refused in full awareness of the threat of being arrested or even killed, on framed-up "violence" charges. Then, Martin Luther King came to Alabama, stayed for a year, although originally he only wanted to stay for a week because there was work to do that nobody else could do. This was in a situation in which innocent people were crucified by racists, and not even white supporters of Dr. King were safe and were beaten, while the white hospitals refused to give them medical treatment. The situation escalated, and Dr. King had the plan for the march from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, set for March 7, 1965. Because of the absolute brutality of the state troopers, who almost beat Amelia to death and refused to allow ambulances to aid the wounded, has been known ever since as "Bloody Sunday." However, this turned the tide, a countrywide mobilization was building, within months the Voting Rights Act was passed in Congress and signed in Amelia's presence among others, by President Lyndon Johnson.

This history, along with other developments, shows the importance of faith that one has to have, to be able to achieve something, Amelia said. Later on, one day, she met the LaRouche people in the streets, telling her about the blueprint for development of the Sahara desert, which was an idea worth fighting for, so she joined and has worked with the Schiller Institute since 1984, and looking back, Amelia said she felt like the happiest person in the world having been able to do that work.

What is important is to care for others. For example during the Katrina disaster, where nobody, the institutions least of all, cared and people were just left to themselves, Amelia recalled those people who, having at last been rescued from the roof of their flooded home after days of being there, immediately thought about their neighbors, wanting to know what happened to them. Or, the other example of those U.S. servicemen wounded in Iraq who were stored away with no medical treatment, nobody knowing about them nor caring for them until the story got leaked to Amelia, so the Schiller Institute launched a broad campaign to alert the public, making it an issue. The world needs this organization, with its young people and their commitment, and it also needs the research work they are doing, Amelia said.

Two resolutions were then read by Helga, and adopted by the conference attendees unanimously: 1) one by Professor Saleh denouncing plans for an attack on Iran, calling for international cooperation in the tradition of the Westphalian Treaty of 1648; 2) the Kiedrich Resolution calling for a just new world economic order, emphasis on reconstruction of the real economy and the realization of the grand infrastructure projects as an utmost urgency. Both resolutions will be presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations, for its next session

The second presentation to the afternoon panel was given by "the next President of France" (as he was introduced), Jacques Cheminade, who began by saying "I have a dream," but one that will become a reality because there are so many young people working for that. There will be a new cultural paradigm of the new millennium. The old era, with its emphasis on sense-perception, emotions and irrationality, with its power games in the arena, is going to be replaced by a yearning for justice and truth that requires a new way of thinking which liberates itself from the manipulation of senses, from that barbarism that Friedrich Schiller rightly characterized and attacked, in his Aesthetical Letters.

Cheminade mocked the widespread insanity of searching for friends via the internet, as just marking the end of an era that has been dominated by barbarism. The new era will be dominated by a way of thinking that shares the benefits of creative work with the rest of the world, that has as its main objective to pull mankind out from the dark age. The new cultural paradigm is based on the sublime, and as in Kepler's great contribution, it moves from the understanding that the universe in in the human mind, not outside of it where it is a matter of the sense. The Land-Bridge is a challenge for profound change of humanity to begin seeing itself as a whole, for the development of a sixth sense that goes beyond the five material senses. To achieve that, commitment of the kind that Beethoven showed when he wrote "Muss es sein? Es muss sein!" is required, Cheminade said. He then showed a video on a speech that Thomas Santara, the revolutionary leader of the African nation of Burkina Faso, gave at the OAU summit in Addis Abbeba in 1987, a speech with heavy polemics against the debt system that keeps human beings enslaved, a speech reflecting the same combative spirit as Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo in his 1982 speech at the UN General Assembly.

The afternoon session continued with a LaRouche Youth Panel on the organizing and science work done in Europe, Mexico, and in the United States, and with a concluding speech by Lyn on the importance of thorough scientific work, as reliving the greater discoveries and the process by which they were made.