1984-2004: Highlights of Schiller Institute's Activities

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Highlights of Schiller Institute’s Activities

1984 rial Conference to promote the SDI: “The Initiative: Its Military, Economic, and Age of Reason in a World of Mutually Scientific Dimensions” in Tokyo. July 3-4: “Rescue the Western Alli- Assured Survival and Space Coloni- Sept. 16: Publication of “Ibero- ance”—founding conference of the Insti-zation.” American Integration: 100 Million New tute in Arlington, Virginia. July 15-17: “Stop the IMF’s Geno- Jobs by the Year 2000.” Sept. 25: Board members tour West cide! For the Integration and Develop- Berlin and call for the reunification of ment of Ibero-America”—first Conti- East and West Germany and the fall of nental Conference of the Schiller 1987 the Berlin Wall. Institute Trade Union Commission, held Feb. 13: Concert in the Mexico City Nov. 26: “For the Inalienable Rights in Mexico City. Cathedral by the Schiller Institute chorus, of Man”—international conference en- Nov. 1-3: “Saint Augustine, Father singing music of Bach and Vivaldi. dorses the Declaration of the Inalienable of European and African Civilization”— April 3-4: Conference in Lima, Peru Rights of Man. More than 3,000 people international conference in Rome, with celebrating the 20th anniversary of the from 50 nations bring declaration to the 800 participants from five continents. encylical Populorum Progressio. Theme White House steps. is “Development Is the New Name for Peace.” Co-sponsored by the Schiller In- 1986 stitute and the College of Saint Au- 1985 gustine. Feb. 2: “Towards the Creation of a Dec. 12-13: Seminar in New Delhi Jan. 15: Ten thousand demonstrate North-South Action Committee for a on “The Campaign of Lyndon LaRouche on Martin Luther King holiday in Wash- New World Economic Order against the for a Solution to the Worldwide Eco- ington, D.C., for a just new world eco- IMF”—international conference in Paris nomic Collapse.” nomic order. attended by 500 Europeans and Africans. June 15-16: Krafft Ehricke Memo- April 22-23: “The Strategic Defense 1988 Jan. 30-31: “The New Name for Peace is Development”—Bretton Woods, New Hampshire international conference to call for a new just economic order, replacing the bankrupt Bret- ton Woods system. April 9-10: Milan, Italy conference on “Music and Classical Esthetics,” at Casa Verdi. Musicians from all over Italy attend, launching the international fight to lower the modern so-called standard pitch (A = 440 or higher) to the “Verdi” pitch of C = 256 cycles per second (A = 432). July 13: Press conference in Rome on Verdi pitch campaign. Sept. 3-4: Food for Peace organiza- tion founded at Chicago conference. Del- egates pledge to fight for increased food Ten thousand citizens, including many inner city youth, demonstrated for economic production worldwide and an end to the development, the SDI, and an end to the IMF at a Washington, D.C. march on Jan. 15, destructive GATT free-trade policies. 1985, after the fourth international Schiller Conference.

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© 2004 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. 1989 Jan. 16: Four thousand people from 25 states and dozens of nations march in Washington, D.C., demanding economic justice for people all over the world, against the IMF bankers’ dicta- torship. Jan. 19-20: International Martin Lu- ther King Tribunal on Crimes Against Humanity founded in Rome. Major focus is to free Lyndon LaRouche from prison. (LaRouche was unjustly sentenced and imprisoned on Jan. 27.) May 5-6: “For a New Council of Florence”—international conference in Rome’s Sala Borromini, on the 550th an- Helga Zepp-LaRouche was the keynote speaker at a Schiller Institute conference niversary of the 1439 Council of commemorating the year of St. Augustine, in Rome, Nov. 1-3, 1985. Florence. October-December: The Institute is deeply involved in support for the revolu- tions sweeping Eastern Europe. Sponsors Beethoven concert at the former Berlin Wall by violinist Norbert Brainin and pi- anist Gu¨nter Ludwig dedicated to Ger- many’s reuniﬁcation.

1990 Jan. 21: The Lubo Opera Company presents the first American performance of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio at the “Verdi” pitch, in Alice Tully Hall, Lin- coln Center, New York City. Lyndon and Helga LaRouche addressed a conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the papal encyclical Populorum Progressio, which was held in Lima, Peru Sept. 15-17: Helga Zepp-LaRouche in 1987. leads Schiller Institute delegation to Po- land. Polish Schiller Institute is launched in the room where Solidarnosc was emy of Science in Prague. founded in 1980. 1992 July: Bridge Across Jordan, a book about the life of civil rights heroine Ame- May 26: “Christopher Columbus: 1991 lia Boynton Robinson, is released by the Science and Evangelization in the Discov- Schiller Institute. ery of the New World”—conference at May 10-12: Helga Zepp-LaRouche Oct. 7: Demonstration at the United Rome’s Urbaniana Pontifical University. releases a call to governments of the Nations releases policy proposal “For a July 1-6: Vice Chairman Amelia world to implement Pope John Paul II’s True Fourth UN Development Decade: Robinson tours war-torn Croatia at invi- encyclical Centesimus Annus. A Concrete Solution to the World Eco- tation of “Mothers for Peace.” June: Institute helps to found and nomic Breakdown Crisis.” August: “World Appeal for Africa: propagate the activities of the CommitteeNov. 22-23: “The Productive Trian- Help Save 40 Million People” urges an To Save the Children in Iraq. gle: Centerpiece of an All-Eurasian In- emergency program to stop the pending June 27: The Productive Triangle isfrastructure Program, Locomotive for a mass death in Africa due to drought and officially presented to the Institute of New, Just World Economic Order”—in- famine. Economics of the Czechoslovak Acad- ternational conference in Berlin. Aug. 19: Helga Zepp-LaRouche ad-

EIR July 16, 2004 Feature 19 Anderson in DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. Nov. 9: Institute co-sponsors concert at Fisk Memorial Chapel in Tennessee, “Let Freedom Sing,” with Robert McFer- rin, Sylvia Olden Lee, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and the Nashville Boys Choir.

1994 April 25: Institute launches global drive against the United Nations Interna- tional Conference on Population and De- velopment in Cairo. May 24: First seminar in Ukraine on On Jan. 31, 1988 the Schiller Institute sponsored a conference on a New Just World Economic Order in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, scene of the founding of the 1944 the global ﬁnancial crisis and reconstruc- Bretton Woods System. Above are Helga LaRouche, former Guyanese UN Ambassador tion policies. Fred Wills (center), and Lyndon LaRouche. May 27-28: “For a Marian Anderson National Conservatory of Music Move- ment”: Gala Concert and Music Confer- ence at Howard University in Washing- ton, D.C. Aug. 7-14: Lyndon and Helga LaRouche address educational-cultural seminar in Smolenice Castle, outside Bratislava, Slovakia. Nov. 26: First Washington, D.C. performance of “Through the Years,” a musical drama by Amelia Boynton Robin- son, with cast and choir drawn from local children. Dec. 17-23: The LaRouches visit Su- Following the launching of its campaign for returning the concert pitch to C=256, the dan to discuss ways out of the economic Verdi pitch, the Schiller Institute held a press conference in Rome, shown here. From left: and strategic crisis there. organist Arturo Sacchetti, Senator Mezzopeso, Schiller Institute representative Liliana Gorini, famous base Piero Cappuccilli, and Senator Boggio. 1995 dresses the UN Human Rights Commis- at the Russian State University for the June 5-9: Lyndon and Helga sion, Sub-Commission on Prevention ofHumanities. LaRouche in second visit to Russia; he Discrimination and Protection of Minori- April 8: “Save the Art of Bel speaks at the State Duma of the Russian ties, meeting in Geneva, on the case ofCanto—Return to the Verdi Tuning”: Federation, the Institute of Economics of political prisoner Lyndon LaRouche. Forum and Master Class by Italian tenor the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Oct. 30-31: Conference of the Insti-Carlo Bergonzi at Weill Recital Hall at Methodological University, and Mos- tute in Moscow, co-sponsored by the Carnegie Hall, New York. cow State University. Moscow State Humanitarian University April 26-30: Helga Zepp-LaRouche July 11: Former Ugandan President and the Ukrainian University in Moscow, in Khartoum, keynotes international Godfrey Binaisa, joined by a delegation on LaRouche’sProductive Triangleas al-Conference on Religions, sponsored by of the National Constitutional Confer- ternative to IMF austerity policy. the Sudanese government, “For an Ecu- ence of Nigeria, discuss Binaisa’s initia- menical Dialogue based on an Economic tive to form an African Civil Rights 1993 Science in Cohesion with the Laws of Movement, at Paris conference on God’s Creation.”“Peace, Development, and the Rights of April 6-10: Helga Zepp-LaRouche Aug. 27: Concert of Lieder, spirituals Man.” in Moscow, lectures on Nicholas of Cusa and opera in tribute to soprano Marian Aug. 31-Sept. 1: Independent hear-

20 Feature EIR July 16, 2004 ings in Vienna, Virginia, to investigate allegations of gross misconduct by the U.S. Department of Justice. The panel of state legislators, religious and legal ﬁg- ures is chaired by former Congressman James Mann (D-S.C.) and civil rights at- torney JL Chestnut of Selma, Alabama.

1996 Jan. 26: “A Call to Save the Children in Bosnia-Hercegovina” urges United States and Europe to adopt Marshall Plan for economic reconstruction in Bosnia. April 24: Lyndon LaRouche addresses round table discussion in Helga Zepp-LaRouche made a presentation at a Rome conference commemorating the Moscow, sponsored by the Institute for 500th anniversary of the Council of Florence, in May 1989. She is shown here with two Social and Political Studies (ISPI) of the other participants, Father Izydor Patrylo, OSBM, General Superior of the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat; and Cardinal Mario Luigi Ciappi. The Schiller Institute co-sponsored the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Free conference. Economic Society of Russia, and the Schiller Institute for Science and Culture, on “Russia, the United States, and the Global Financial Crisis.” May 7-9: Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses the International Symposium on Economic Development of the Regions Along the New Eurasian Continental Bridge, in Beijing, China. Sept. 13-23: Four U.S. elected offi- cials visit Sudan on the Institute’s initiative, to investigate allegations of government-supported slavery. After extensive Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Schiller Institute went East, sponsoring many meetings with government, religious conferences to discuss LaRouche’s Productive Triangle. Here the first Schiller Institute leaders, local authorities and tribal conference in Poland, held in Gdansk in September 1990, in the same room where chiefs, they find no evidence of slavery Solidarnosc was founded. Helga Zepp-LaRouche is shown in the center. and report this at a Washington, D.C. press conference. dresses the National Congress of Katapat by the St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, in Manila on LaRouche’s exoneration the world’s oldest and foremost boys 1997 andcallforaNewBrettonWoodssystem. choir, performing at the Basilica of the September-October: Helga Zepp- National Shrine of the Immaculate Con- June 20: Institute launches a mobili- LaRouche travels to China and India to ception, Washington, D.C. zation for food relief to starving North discuss the Eurasian Land-Bridge. Aug. 8-14: Helga Zepp-LaRouche Korea. Nov. 19: Helga Zepp-LaRouche ad- visits Brazil, addressing more than 500 June 23: Institute and the Africandresses the Fourth Nigerian Economic people in Rio de Janeiro and Saõ Paulo, Civil Rights Movement release an Ap- Summit in Abuja, on “The Success of the calling for a New Bretton Woods system. peal to President Clinton to Stop Lon- Chinese Economic Reform and Its Sig- Oct. 27-Nov. 1: Helga Zepp- don’s Holocaust in Africa, drafted by nificance for Nigeria: Africa’s Secret LaRouche leads Schiller Institute delega- Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Godfrey Bi-Weapon for Peace!” tion to China, to participate in a confer- naisa, former President of Uganda. ence on the “Second Eurasian Bridge,” July 17: Dr. Jozef Miklosko, presi-1998 sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Bureau dent of the Slovakian branch of the Schil- of the Chinese Academy of Social Sci- ler Institute and former Vice Premier of Feb. 7: The Institute helps sponsor a ences. post-communist Czechoslovakia, ad- Washington, D.C. seminar and concert Nov. 14: Helga Zepp-LaRouche ini-

EIR July 16, 2004 Feature 21 sion in Light of the World Economic Cri- sis”: A memorial seminar in Moscow dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased Russian Schiller Institute leader Taras V. Muranivsky, held at the Lebedev Institute of Physics of the Rus- sian Academy of Sciences (FIAN), with leading academic, military, church, and This Schiller Institute conference in Berlin, which occurred in November 1991, was political figures. dedicated to discussion of uniting Eastern and Western Europe through economic development. Shown from left to right are Dr. Ryabchenko of Ukraine, Gen. Paul Albert Scherer (ret.) of Germany, Anno Hellenbroich and Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute, and former State Sen. Theo Mitchell of the United States. 2001 May 4-6: Schiller Institute Confer- ence in Bad Schwalbach, Germany fea- tures guests from Egypt, China, Russia, and Africa, to discuss the Eurasian Land- Bridge perspective. May 15: Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum represents the Schiller Institute at a seminar on the global financial crisis, held in the Diplomatic Chamber of the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. June 5-6: Dr. Tennenbaum and Karl- Michael Vitt represent the Schiller Insti- tute at a conference in Moscow on “Re- form of Strategic Sectors of the Economy Lyndon and Helga LaRouche travelled to Sudan in December of 1994, for high-level (the Natural Monopolies and the De- discussions on economic and strategic policy. They are shown here with Lino Rol, fense-Industry Complex) and the Na- chairman of the Supreme Council for Peace, in Khartoum. tional Security of Russia,” co-sponsored by the Institute of International Eco- tiates the Women’s Commission for the2000 nomic and Political Studies of the Rus- New Silk Road, to combat America’s il- sian Academy of Sciences; Economists legal bombing of Iraq and fight for Feb. 19: Helga Zepp-LaRouche re- Allied for Arms Reduction; and the Na- global development.ports to the Institute’s Presidents Day tional Investment Council. conference that “America’s children are June 28: Lyndon LaRouche partici- 1999 in mortal danger”; National Commission pates in a webcast press conference in Against the New Violence launched in Moscow on “The Economy of Russia Sept. 4-7: Gen. Harold Bedoya (ret.), July to combat the media and videogame Under Conditions of Destabilization of former Commander of the Armed Forcesviolence which is turning America’s chil- the World Financial System.” Helga of Colombia, addresses the Institute’s dren into killers. Zepp-LaRouche addresses hearings in Labor Day conference in Northern Vir-June 23: Lyndon LaRouche ad- the Russian State Duma. Lyndon ginia and a press conference at the Na- dresses Italian Parliamentarians at a con- LaRouche addresses the Lebedev Insti- tional Press Club in Washington, D.C.,ference titled “Towards a New Bretton tute of Physics of the Russian Academy on the narco-terrorist threat to Colombia Woods” in Rome, at the Cenacolo Hall of Sciences. and other nations. of the Italian Parliament. Aug. 13: Lawrence Freeman, repre- Nov. 9: The call for a Women’s Com- Sept.-Dec.: Institute stages six per- senting the Schiller Institute, addresses mittee for the New Silk Road presentedformances of Shakespeare’s King Lear the Conscience International Conference at conference of the General Federation throughout the City of Chicago. in Abuja, Nigeria, and reads part of a of Iraqi Women, in Baghdad.Dec. 4-7: Lyndon and Helga speech of European Schiller Institute rep- Dec. 1: Former Mexican President LaRouche address economic policy sem- resentative Uwe Friesecke, on the theme: Jose´ Lo´pez Portillo joins Helga Zepp- inar at the St. Laszlo Academy in Buda- “The Time Is Now for a New Bretton LaRouche at a forum in Mexico City, en- pest, with official greetings from Hungar- Woods.” dorses Lyndon LaRouche’s strategy for ian Prime Minister Victor Orban. Oct. 15: Helga Zepp-LaRouche is- world recovery. Dec. 13: “Russia’s Historical Mis- sues call for a “Dialogue of Cultures.”

22 Feature EIR July 16, 2004 Lyndon LaRouche, shown here at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow in June 2001, often visited Russia for discussions on scientiﬁc, economic, and strategic issues with that nation’s intelligentsia.

2002 June 3: Helga Zepp-LaRouche addresses the Zayed Centre, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on the need for a dialogue of cultures, to defeat the danger- ous scenario of religious wars. June 20-26: Schiller Institute leader Amelia Boynton Robinson visits Iran, at the invitation of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, and conducts numerous television and press interviews. The February 1998 concert of the Leipzig- based Thomanerchor, held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. 2003 March 23: An emergency declara- Oct. 16: Lyndon and Helga tion urging an end to the war in Iraq, is LaRouche address a seminar in Rome at signed by representatives from 45 coun- the Italian Institute for Asia. Attendees tries at the Institute Conference in Bad include senators and parliamentary depu- Schwalbach, Germany. ties; it is opened by the president of the May 26-27: The Centre for Social Most Schiller Institute conferences feature Institute of Asia, Sen. Giulio Orlando, a Justice, of India, and the Schiller Institute Classical musical presentations, often by former minister of the Italian gov- organize a conference on the “World Sit- leading artists such as renowned baritone ernment. uation After the Iraq War.” It is addressed William Warﬁeld, who is shown here at a conference held in Reston, Virginia in Nov. 27-28: Two-day conference at by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Lyndon February 2002. Warﬁeld, now deceased, the Vernadsky State Geological Museum LaRouche, among other speakers. was a board member of the Schiller of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Sept. 4: Helga Zepp-LaRouche ad- Institute in the United States. Moscow, co-sponsored by the Schiller dresses a four-day conference of the Institute and the Museum. A paper by World Public Forum on the island of Lyndon LaRouche on “The Legacy of Rhodes, on the “Dialogue of Civiliza- 2004 Mendeleyev and Vernadsky; The Spirit tions.” It is attended by 350 delegates of Russia’s Science” is presented. from 36 countries. May 4-6: Conference of the World Dec. 14-15: Lyndon LaRouche ad-Nov. 12: Three Institute children’s Public Forum-Dialogue of Civilizations dresses a symposium in Moscow in honorchoruses from northwest Mexico, along in Prague, attended by 250 politicians, of his friend, the late Russian scientistwith Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, par- church representatives, scientists, intel- Pobisk Kuznetsov. The event is co-spon-ticipate in a concert celebrating the 100th lectuals, and artists discuss the future of sored by the Schiller Institute and theanniversary of the founding of Mexicali, Europe. Helga Zepp-LaRouche ad- Moscow Academy of Culture and Educa-Mexico. Some 44,000 people attend in a dresses the Economic Workshop and the tional Development.vast open-air theater. Plenary Session.

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