A worldwide movement of young people building the next paradigm of civilization — peace through development, and the creative powers of the human mind.
History is not something that happens to you — it is something you make. We call on the youth of every continent to lift their eyes above the crises of the day, and to join us in building a world of sovereign nations, shared development, and the unstoppable power of human creativity.
Excerpted from the speech delivered by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. on April 26, 1997, to the Schiller Institute conference “Peace Through Development in Africa’s Great Lakes Region,” Walluf, Germany. First published in EIR, Vol. 24, No. 22, May 23, 1997.
Although I am interested in many of these subjects, and involved in many of the topics which will be discussed today, I thought it more appropriate that I address the one topic which no one else would address, which is the situation in the world, which defines the situation in Africa.
Now, I ask you to step out of being Africans for a moment, and go up to the top of a mountain, where you can see in the distance both the breadth of this planet’s population, and also, see into its past, several hundred years. And, look at the situation that we’re in; look down on this planet on which you happen to live, but stay on the mountaintop for a while, and say, What is going on, around the whole world?
Let’s look at Africa, and its development, and its pain of today, in terms of what is happening around the world. And what you see is, this planetary civilization is disintegrating!
We’re on the verge, in the process actually, of the greatest financial collapse, globally, in all human history. We’re at the point that the monetary systems of every country, with possibly the exception of China, can disintegrate on a given morning. That is, we could have a chain reaction in financial speculation, which, within 48 to 72 hours, can annihilate every currency, every bank on this planet, simply because everything freezes; money is no longer negotiable, because of the collapse. That can happen.
Proposed by Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, November 30, 2022. Click each principle to read it.
Full text: Ten Principles — schillerinstitute.com ↗
Conceived by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche in the early 1990s as a global policy of “Peace Through Development” — corridors of rail, water, and power uniting every continent. Click a pulsing marker to explore a featured project.
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Map (tentative): “The World Land-Bridge” centerfold — pin positions are draft.
Featured project · Middle East
A fifty-year development perspective for Palestine and Israel, first proposed by Lyndon LaRouche in 1975: peace built not on paper treaties, but on the physical economy — water, power, and transport for all the peoples of the region.
Featured project · Africa
The great project to refill Lake Chad — transferring a small fraction of the water of the Congo River basin northward through a ~2,400 km navigable canal, bringing water, power, and transport to the heart of Africa.
Featured project · South America
⬡ Draft copy — the pamphlet document leaves this section open; the projects below are taken from the World Land-Bridge map and can be replaced.
The deepest-water port in South America, at Chancay, Peru, joins a bioceanic rail corridor linking the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Brazil — cutting Shanghai-to-South-America shipping times by up to a quarter and opening the continent’s interior to development.
Featured project · The Bronx, New York
⬡ Placeholder — the featured Bronx project is to be announced.
The World Land-Bridge is not only about distant continents — it is a mission for every community. The Bronx section will feature the youth movement’s local organizing and a concrete development project for New York, connecting the neighborhood to the world.
A series of video interviews with representatives of the Global South — statesmen, scientists, and youth leaders — from the Schiller Institute’s YouTube channel.
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