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56-605: On February 24, 2021, Helga Zepp-LaRouche denounced the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its treasurer, Barbara Boyd, for going "in a direction which I consider contrary to the central policies that my husband stood for. ... [S]ince he passed away in February 2019, Mrs. Boyd and her associates ... have embarked on a path that I believe misrepresents both my and Mr. LaRouche's positions", and has stated that LPAC and Boyd do not represent

112-403: A "Satanic swindle". In her opinion, it "supplies the argumentation to establish a global eco-dictatorship whose results, and whose declared intention is to eliminate six billion human beings". Zepp-LaRouche argued that preparations are under-way for the establishment of "a fascist world government which would exceed Hitler’s most audacious dreams". Zepp-LaRouche suggested the origin of the "swindle"

168-703: A Los Angeles production of "The Big Knife" by Clifford Odets , a play which explores the Hollywood environment under the big studio system of the 1940s. In May 2009, Beltran played the dual roles of Don Fermin and Older Eusebio in the American Conservatory Theater's staging of José Rivera's Boleros for the Disenchanted . He had the recurring role of Jerry Flute in Seasons 3 and 4 of HBO's Big Love . Latino Poetry – Excerpts from

224-517: A campaign LaRouche created to blame the "first generation" of his own movement for fundraising failures, and to appeal to young members by channeling "the rage new acolytes felt toward their parents at a nearby, internal enemy". After spending six days at a Schiller Institute conference and LYM cadre school in Germany, 22-year-old Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish student from London who was studying in Paris,

280-474: A crucial turning point for me. Her zealous devotion to the classics and her political war against drugs emboldened me to act, yet in my own way." She is an opponent of the clash of civilizations doctrine of Samuel P. Huntington . Following the September 11 attacks , she campaigned against the idea that there is a fundamental antagonism between U.S. and Europe on the one side, and Islam or Asian culture on

336-623: A degree in Theater Arts and moved to Los Angeles to begin his acting career. He had his first film role in Zoot Suit in 1981, but his breakthrough came in 1982 when he played the title character in the independently produced dark comedy Eating Raoul . Beltran had a supporting role as Chuck Norris ' partner Trooper Kayo Ramos in the 1983 film Lone Wolf McQuade . He then starred in the 1984 TV film The Mystic Warrior as Native American brave Ahbleza, and as Hector in 1984's Night of

392-738: A freelancer. In 1971, the websites continue, she traveled through China as one of the first European journalists there, just after the highpoint of the Cultural Revolution . When she returned to Germany, she studied political science, history and philosophy at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and at Frankfurt am Main . On 29 December 1977, Helga Zepp and Lyndon LaRouche were married in Wiesbaden . According to her official biography on

448-683: A national grocery store chain, received an injunction in 2009 barring LPAC activists from soliciting donations or distributing literature on their Ralphs and Food 4 Less properties in Southern California. Another grocery chain, Trader Joe's , also sought an injunction after customers allegedly complained that the LPAC members had called them "bitches" and "Hitler lovers". Stater Brothers also sought an injunction to bar LPAC members from soliciting in front of their stores. Lyndon LaRouche, LPAC, and its treasurer Barbara Boyd were sued in 2009 by

504-658: A positive reception in San Francisco in March 2011. The LaRouche PAC on November 16 2022, gave its Endorsement to the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign . LPAC received about $ 6 million during the 2009-2010 election cycle, according to public records and Out of the Storm News , a publication of The Heartland Institute . Donations came from nearly 5000 individuals, a large percentage of them from employees of

560-647: A proposal to dissolve the World Trade Organization and double world food production. This latter proposal was described by the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram as "among the notable visions, worthy of respect, which are consistent with the vision put forward by President Mubarak in Davos." In 2012, she was a featured speaker at the 10th annual “Dialogue of Civilizations” conference in Rhodes , sponsored by

616-570: A wide variety of accusations of the LaRouche organizations, including a Scotland Yard report that called them a political cult. In 2006, college officials in Boston told a reporter that the LYM was one of the two leading high-pressure groups on area campuses, and that it engaged in strong-arm tactics to induce students to leave college and help recruit new members. Boyd called the charges "gossip" and said

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672-582: Is a German political activist. She is the widow of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche , and the founder of the LaRouche movement's Schiller Institute , as well as the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität party ( BüSo ) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity). She has run for political office several times in Germany, representing small parties founded by the LaRouche movement , but has never been elected. She

728-659: Is highly critical of contemporary college curricula, and has designed his own pedagogy for members of his youth movement, which he describes as "the reliving of the crucial discoveries of universal physical-scientific principle by, successively, the ancient Pythagoreans and Plato and the modern science of Johannes Kepler ," combined with the performance of classical vocal music, particularly Johann Sebastian Bach 's Jesu, meine Freude . They spend time in what are called " Monge brigades," which emphasize readings of Vladimir Vernadsky , Alexander Hamilton , Carl Gauss and Bernhard Riemann . The LaRouche Youth have been assisted around

784-881: Is the British monarchy . In July 2016, Zepp-LaRouche spoke at the first panel on the Think 20 Summit, which was organised by three Chinese academies and institutes: the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , the Shanghai Institute for International Studies , and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China. On 24 February 2021, Zepp-LaRouche denounced

840-678: Is the editor of Das Hitler-Buch (1984), published by the Schiller Institute, a collection of historical investigations into the origins of Nazism . Zepp-LaRouche often resorts to distorting facts from history. Lyndon LaRouche wrote in The Power of Reason (first edition) that his wife was an orphan. According to the Schiller Institute and Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität websites, she left high school in 1968 to work as an unpaid journalist in Hamburg and Hannover , later becoming

896-496: The LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC) and its treasurer, Barbara Boyd, for going "in a direction which I consider contrary to the central policies that my husband stood for. [...] [S]ince he passed away in February 2019, Mrs. Boyd and her associates [...] have embarked on a path that I believe misrepresents both my and Mr. LaRouche’s positions." and stated that LPAC and Boyd do not represent

952-401: The LaRouche movement . She has taken legal action against LPAC to “immediately cease and desist, both now and in the future" from "using Mr. LaRouche’s name, likeness, and potentially other confusingly similar terms." Barbara Boyd, spokesperson for the LYM and treasurer of LPAC, says that LYM was founded in 2000. According to Harley Schlanger, a LaRouche spokesperson, LYM's first major campaign

1008-868: The NCLR Bravo Award for Outstanding Television Series Actor in a Crossover Role, and the ALMA Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Television Series in a Crossover Role in 1998 and 1999. Beltran founded and co-directed the East LA Classic Theater Group. He is also a member of the Classical Theater Lab, an ensemble of professional actors who co-produced his production of Hamlet in 1997, which he directed and starred in. Beltran has collaborated with amateur actors in performing plays and scenes of plays of William Shakespeare . He produced and starred in

1064-719: The Salvation Army be treated the same way. As of 2002, Nancy Spannaus was the executive director of the PAC. LPAC and LYM members targeted Senator Joe Lieberman 's reelection campaign in 2006. At one campaign appearance three members sang loudly "If you want a third world war, vote for Joe, Bill Buckley's whore". In 2007, two associates of LPAC, Robert Lucero and Tony DeFranco, were escorted off Post Office property in Naperville, Illinois , by police. The two were carrying signs calling President George W. Bush "dumb" and calling for

1120-539: The World Public Forum . She said that the accelerating collapse of the transatlantic system is driving the danger of a new world war, and that US and European liquidity expansion measures have led to a hyper-inflationary printing of money, with its “life-shortening effect” upon millions of people in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In August 2015, Zepp-LaRouche wrote an article describing climate change as

1176-639: The cognitive powers and potential for political leadership among young people. TIME magazine's coverage of Kesha Rogers' campaign says that "The LYM espouses LaRouche opposition to free trade and 'globalism' (the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund) and it also calls for a return to a humanist classical education, emphasizing the works of Plato and Leibniz." Journalists, former members and law enforcement officials have made

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1232-588: The "Kepler's Discovery" site was the work of Harvard University . In 2008 they issued Firewall – in Defense of the Nation State . This was followed by the release on July 3 of the feature-length sequel 1932 , narrated by Robert Beltran , and a December production on scientific method , The Matter of Mind . They are also producing regular short videos on topical issues. Helga Zepp-LaRouche Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born 25 August 1948)

1288-608: The "Obama as Hitler" posters "trivializes the travesties that occurred under the Fascist regime of Nazi Germany". In 2010, LPAC members said the PAC staffed from 80 to 100 tables across the country every day. Several confrontations between supporters of LPAC candidates and local residents were reported in April 2011 in Healdsburg, California . The police were called repeatedly, but no one was cited. Other LPAC workers report receiving

1344-744: The African nations of South Africa, Zimbabwe , and Mozambique . LYM members have been active in the Democratic Party at the state and local levels. In 2006, LaRouche Youth Movement activist and Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee member Cody Jones was honored as "Democrat of the Year" for the 43rd Assembly District of California, by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. At the April 2007, California State Democratic Convention, LYM activist Quincy O'Neal

1400-607: The Comet . He played Father Michael in a 1993 episode of “Murder She Wrote” (S9, E12). He played Commander Chakotay , the Native American first officer of the starship Voyager , in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager from 1995 to 2001. During this time, he won the Nosotros Golden Eagle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series in 1997. He was also nominated in 1996 for

1456-837: The Global Warming theory. In Argentina , LYM leader Betiana Gonzalez disrupted Gore's speech at a Biofuels conference. A similar incident took place earlier in the year in Montreal, Canada. In November 2007, the LYM launched a campaign against social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook , with the mass distribution of the pamphlet "The Noosphere vs. The Blogosphere : Is the Devil in Your Laptop?" The pamphlet says that Rupert Murdoch , owner of MySpace, and Microsoft , owner of Facebook (Microsoft owns only 2.5% of Facebook), are involved in social engineering to destroy

1512-582: The LaRouche movement's Executive Intelligence Review . Earlier that year, Lopez Portillo, along with former Ugandan President Godfrey Binaisa , former Algerian Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi and other politicians, had added his signature to a call issued by Zepp-LaRouche for a "new just world economic order." Zepp-LaRouche is the editor of Das Hitler-Buch , published by the Schiller Institute, Campaigner Publications Deutschland, Wiesbaden 1984. ISBN   3-922734-05-7 (translated as The Hitler Book , 1984. ISBN   0-933488-37-8 ) She founded

1568-632: The LaRouche movement, responded by portraying Michael Winsted as an agent of the Washington Post who "briefly infiltrated the Baltimore chapter of the LYM". The Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee was previously registered with the Federal Election Commission as "FDR PAC" and by "Spannaus in '96". In 2000, LaRouche's FDR PAC made news when, forbidden from soliciting on U.S. Post Office property, it demanded that

1624-866: The LaRouche movement. Robert Beltran Robert Adame Beltran (born November 19, 1953) is an American actor known for his role as Commander Chakotay on the 1990s television series Star Trek: Voyager . He is also known for stage acting in California, and for playing Raoul Mendoza in the 1982 black comedy film Eating Raoul . Beltran was born in Bakersfield, California , the son of Aurelia and Luis Beltran Perez, immigrants from Mexico. He attended East Bakersfield High School and Bakersfield College . He has two sisters and seven brothers, including Latin Jazz musician Louie Cruz Beltran . Beltran graduated from California State University, Fresno with

1680-556: The PAC or its affiliates. The largest donation, $ 12,425, came from Kathy Magraw, listed as a supervisor at LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review . Magraw is also the largest individual recipient of funds from the PAC, receiving $ 129,705 during the cycle. LYM received $ 3,142,142 from LPAC in the 2009-2010 election cycle. The Center for Public Integrity reports that almost $ 6 million of the $ 13 million raised by LPAC since 2007 went to LaRouche Youth, to pay for "grassroots lobbying and advocacy". The LaRouche Political Action Committee paid

1736-556: The Schiller Institute in the same year, saying: "We need a movement that can finally free Germany from the control of the Versailles and Yalta treaties, thanks to which we have staggered from one catastrophe to another for an entire century." In Dancing on My Grave (1986), ballerina Gelsey Kirkland describes her encounter with Zepp-LaRouche's ideas, as the former was battling her drug addiction: "In spite of her extreme point of view, her unyielding radicalism, this woman provided

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1792-610: The Schiller Institute website, she traveled with her husband to promote his proposals for monetary reform and large-scale infrastructural development, and met with former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and former Mexican president José López Portillo . She returned to Mexico in 1998, and participated as mistress of ceremonies at a conference held at the Academy of Economics of the Mexican Society of Geography, during which Lopez Portillo greeted her once again, according to

1848-479: The U.S. LPAC produces pamphlets which carry suggested donation requests. Publications include: The "Basement team" is variously described as belonging to the LYM or to LPAC. According to Boyd, LPAC pays LYM to produce videos. Most of the videos on Kesha Roger's campaign website were created by LPAC. From 2006 to 2007, members of the team produced a set of computer animations described as a pedagogical tour through Johannes Kepler 's New Astronomy and Harmony of

1904-515: The U.S. in performance workshops on classical music, as well as African-American spirituals , by well known musicians William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee , and in drama performance by actor Robert Beltran . The LYM has disrupted university lectures to distribute their material. On October 23, 2006, a group of LaRouche Youth Movement members twice disrupted a Connecticut U.S. Senate debate between Alan Schlesinger , Ned Lamont , and Joseph Lieberman . According to The Day , as Joe Lieberman spoke,

1960-692: The US, heckling him and calling his policies "fascist". In one case, at the University of California, Irvine , 15 LYM members, some of whom violently resisted, were arrested. LYM members frequently combine political activity with choral music performance. They sang outside the Democratic Party Convention in Boston in 2004, and in 2007 they performed choral music with lyrics about impeaching Dick Cheney in classrooms at Harvard and Boston University. During 2007, LYM members have been seen in on

2016-472: The World , plus another set on the discovery of the orbit of Ceres titled The Mind of Gauss . After another website, keplersdiscovery.com , appeared that discussed the same works by Kepler, team members asserted that it was a plagiarized and inferior copy of their own work. In August 2008, the team released an hour-long video, The Harvard Yard , in which they elaborate their claim of plagiarism and charge that

2072-519: The act "calls for seizure by the government" of all U.S banks. In 2009 LPAC members were noted for their posters which depicted Barack Obama with a Hitler-style toothbrush mustache . They asked pedestrians "Do you want to stop Obama from killing people?" and "Want to fire our Nazi president?" The posters led to violent reactions from passersby, including one man who had lost family members in World War II. LPAC spokesperson Nancy Spannaus said that

2128-425: The act "would establish a federal agency that would place federal- and state-chartered banks under protection, freeze all existing home mortgages for a period of time, adjust mortgage values to fair prices, restructure existing mortgages at appropriate interest rates, and write off speculative debt obligations of mortgage-backed securities". According to one opponent, Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski , on closer inspection

2184-494: The country, mostly vehicle operating expenses. In 2006, LPAC paid $ 7000 in fines to the FEC for failing to file mandatory disclosure forms. LPAC gave $ 11,000 in contributions to three candidates in the 2009-2010 election cycle: $ 4000 each to "Kesha Rogers For Congress" and "Summer Shields for Congress", and $ 3000 to "Rachel Brown For Congress". The LYM website lists 21 offices in the U.S. and Canada. The LPAC website lists 12 offices in

2240-722: The depression and prevented the Nazis' rise to power, and that the adoption of her husband's Eurasian Land-Bridge proposal today can avert a similar disaster. Zepp-LaRouche's presentation was later published in 2007 in the Russian magazine Forum International , in an issue devoted to the “Megaprojects of Russia’s East” conference on the Bering Strait crossing . Zepp-LaRouche has launched campaigns in various countries on other issues, including opposition to globalization and support for her husband's "New Bretton Woods" proposal, and

2296-416: The group $ 462,850 in 2006, $ 2,732,851 during the 2008 election cycle, and $ 4,186,068 in the 2010 cycle. According to Boyd, the payments to LaRouche Youth LLC are for web content, field organizing, canvassing, and public advocacy, all of which are categorized as "grassroots lobbying and advocacy". Boyd said the nearly $ 500,000 in uncategorized "petty cash" payments went to political organizing activities across

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2352-418: The group's managers. Winsted recounts: I'm caught off-guard, like, what the hell just happened?...The yelling goes on for maybe five or 10 minutes while I'm furiously backpedaling...They call it making somebody a self-conscious organizer...It is about getting somebody to break down and cry, just to have an emotional collapse. Once you do that, then people are malleable. Jeffrey Steinberg, a top security aide in

2408-552: The hecklers "sang a harmonized ode targeting Vice President Dick Cheney , which, according to the group's website, is unofficially titled 'The Fat-Ass Nazi Song'." During the election campaign of 2006, the LYM came into conflict with organizations including the Ayn Rand Institute , which the LYM accused of promoting genocide in speeches by its representatives at various campuses. LYM members confronted Institute executive director Yaron Brook at various universities across

2464-608: The impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney . During his 2007 campaign for the New Jersey General Assembly , Gordon M. Johnson 's contributions to LPAC became a subject of criticism. Johnson reportedly made seven contributions in 2005 and 2006 totalling $ 1,850. He apologized repeatedly, saying he regretted that he was not "aware of the LaRouche record of anti-Semitism" and was asking for the contributions to be refunded. LPAC members promoted LaRouche's "Homeowners and Bank Protection Act" in 2009. One report says

2520-481: The job of most members is only to collect money and recruit more members. He says that group leaders "were constantly asking us if we would die for these ideas" and that members that become critical or disillusioned by the movement often become the focus of brutal psychological attacks by the other members, including accusations of having "mother issues," of homosexuality, sexual deviance, and allegiance to anti-LaRouche conspiracies. They are often encouraged and even led by

2576-514: The local chapter of the LYM as "30 college-aged youths" who spent several hours each day undergoing instruction provided by the LaRouche organization. One member, 23-year-old Jason Ross, told Cohn that he had dropped out of Stanford University in his junior year to join the movement. "We are in a complete breakdown of the financial system and we know that. We can use our time in a more appropriate manner than going to school," he said. Cohn also talked to three other members who had all quit school to join

2632-634: The movement was working "for ideas and real policies" and was a "youth movement in the Democratic Party". Investigative journalist and LaRouche biographer Dennis King has described the founding of the WLYM by LaRouche as a way of maintaining his legacy after his death by "[going] back to his roots, the roots of his movement in the radical campus movement in the late 1960s." Avi Klein of the Washington Monthly describes this as an element of

2688-474: The movement. The Daily Californian reported the movement's numbers as "about 100 young people from Los Angeles to Oakland" who "travel to dozens of college campuses aggressively recruiting members and not hesitating to ask newcomers to quit school". As a result of the Internet, there are active chapters in nations like Japan where LaRouche has no official organization. The LYM has also expanded its activity into

2744-554: The other. She has called for a " Dialogue of Cultures " as opposed to a "Clash of Civilizations." In June 2001, Zepp-LaRouche spoke before the Russian State Duma hearings on Measures to Ensure the Development of Russia's Economy under Conditions of Global Financial Destabilization. Her theme was the assertion that Wilhelm Lautenbach 's program for productive employment, had it been adopted in 1931, could have ended

2800-478: The posters were an "honest emblem of what the administration policy represents". A 2009 report says that the LPAC website, LaRouchePAC.com , appeared to have deliberately copied the look of the Barackobama.com website, though the contents were entirely different. The LPAC website reportedly contained satires of Democratic Party leaders and an attack of wind power. Following complaints from customers, Kroger ,

2856-467: The streets, campuses and conferences emphasizing two issues in particular: a call by LaRouche for the impeachment of Dick Cheney , and the assertion that the theory of human-caused global warming is a fraud motivated by Malthusianism . On this latter issue, LYM have confronted Al Gore on several occasions at his public events. In the Philippines , LYM members debated a variety of spokespersons for

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2912-457: The widow of Kenneth Kronberg , who alleges that they had defamed her in an LPAC article. Kronberg and his wife had been longtime members of LaRouche movement before his suicide. By 2010, LPAC members were calling for Obama's impeachment. Members of the Tea Party movement distanced themselves from the LPAC members, who often appeared at Tea Party rallies. One Tea Party official complained that

2968-470: Was believed to have run onto a busy road in what the British coroner called a "state of terror," and was killed. The German police investigation concluded that it was a suicide. A private forensic consultant said that he had found evidence of serious assault with a blunt instrument, but no public authorities have given credence to this claim. A LaRouche spokesman has said the young man killed himself because he

3024-557: Was disturbed. In October 2004, a British inquest into Duggan's death heard allegations from his mother that LYM and the Schiller Institute may have used brainwashing techniques on her son to persuade him to join the movement. An ex-member of the LaRouche youth movement has asserted that the LaRouche Youth Movement calls parents "brainwashed baby boomers." Ex-member Michael Winsted says that although members are convinced that they are involved in important political work,

3080-437: Was during the 2003 recall of California Governor Gray Davis , when it distributed over a million leaflets across the country, opposing the recall and depicting Arnold Schwarzenegger alongside Adolf Hitler . They also distributed tens of thousands of other pamphlets in California. In a 2004 article in the University of California, Berkeley independent student newspaper, The Daily Californian , reporter David Cohn described

3136-461: Was elected vice-chairman of the California State Democratic Black Caucus, and Wynneal Innocentes was elected corresponding secretary of the Filipino Caucus. O'Neal is also president of the LYM's Democratic Party Club, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Legacy Club, which is affiliated with the California Democratic Council . In March 2010, LaRouche Youth leader Kesha Rogers won the Democratic congressional primary in Houston, Texas' 22nd District. LaRouche

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