Rachel Brown for Congress Campaign Hosts `Two Massachusetts' Conference

NEW BEDFORD, MA — The Rachel Brown for Congress campaign hosted a highly successful conference in New Bedford, MA on Saturday. Most of the close to twenty guests who attended stayed throughout the entire day with tremendous concentration and excitement. The presentations began with a brief introduction and welcome, by Democrat for Congress Rachel Brown, to give people a sense of why it was so important that they were there and to urge them to join her campaign. She then introduced LaRouchePAC representative Matthew Ogden, who aimed in his presentation to give the audience insight into their own thinking, i.e., what's really driving them as individuals and driving the mass strike as a whole, elaborating the idea of "a physics of human history" by using references to Lyndon LaRouche's new paper, to the American Revolution, and to Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings.

As soon as we broke for lunch, the room burst into discussion between campaign workers and guests.

After the campaign organizers taught the conference guests to sing William Billing's "Chester", the unofficial anthem of the American Revolution, the afternoon portion was largely dedicated to historian Pam Lowry, the wife of the late Graham Lowry, who poignantly walked people through the fight against the British from 1620 until Franklin Roosevelt's administration, demonstrating a seamless continuity of intention for economic development spanning that centuries-long period, and ending with an interview of NASA's Gene Kranz from 1999, in which he discussed the need for mankind to have a unified mission.

At this point, Rachel Brown picked up and presented the continuity of this mission into the future, and why her campaign, representing Lyndon LaRouche's ideas, represents optimism. She laid out the economic crisis and counterposed that with the Moon-Mars mission. Rachel had people imagine what would be necessary in an economy if you took money out of the picture. Some of the answers that came up were: "industry, we need to bring industry back into this country," "healthcare," "food." This then led into a discussion of what real economics is, stemming from the idea that mankind must always develop in order to ameliorate the effects of resource depletion or dispersion, at which point Brown identified the Moon and asteroids in nearby space, as one of the most important future sources for resources, especially Helium-3 for fusion. Rachel concluded her presentation by elaborating how many paradoxes are still to be found in even our current "understanding" of the universe, saying that our job must be seen as educating future generations to discover the answers to questions which we don't even yet know exist.

After the official meeting was over, many people stayed for another hour, in discussion. Many people took extra reading material, extra lawn signs, extra window signs, and bumper stickers. One guest took many extra of our newly-translated Portuguese material, to distribute to his community. The event really reflected the campaign's organizing in the district, as most of the guests were residents of New Bedford, and were either very new, or have come to a few events before and are really developing a larger sense of the fight. Some closer contacts brought other people. One man who had gotten the leaflet, came because he is a teamster, and had been concerned because a British company had taken over the repairing of school buses in Massachusetts, and are not repairing them adequately, and when he saw "British" on the campaign flyer, he responded and came to the meeting. One guest took extra "Wanted for Treason: Barney Frank" leaflets and will post them all over Middleboro (in the district), on lamp posts. One of the clearest transformations was a young woman who had come to the meeting, despite being a "supporter of Obama," and throughout the lunch break she kept discussing how she supported Obama but had an open mind. But, through discussions and the presentations, this young mom of two, got a sense of the larger philosophical battle -- that the campaign is not just discussing certain issues. She got a sense that Rachel Brown is not merely a politician, but actually represents a philosophical outlook. After she had met the campaign organizers a few weeks ago, she said she went on the "larouchepac.com" website, and immediately went to the "Humor" page. She said she really liked the cartoon of Obama shaving his moustache and it kept growing back, even though she still liked Obama!! She ended up taking a window sign that says "Vote Rachel Brown, Impeach Obama," at the end of the conference. Another close contact has been developing a broad-scope understanding of what the campaign represents and he proudly sees himself as the "ambassador" of Rachel Brown's campaign in New Bedford. He mapped out all the Portuguese and Spanish speaking areas in New Bedford, so as to facilitate the distribution of Rachel's latest statements in those languages. When asked to do a video interview by a cameraman from LPACTV, he responded by telling Obama (on camera): "you can't cut NASA, Mr. President, we need a space orientation for the human race." These examples are merely typical of the growing self-organizing impulse being expressed throughout the constituent "campaign army" which the Brown campaign is leading in the Massachusetts 4th district.

See the latest "Down With the Traitors: LPAC Campaign Show" from July 18th for more coverage of this event, in addition to visiting www.rachelforcongress.com.