Worcester, MA-On Tuesday, March 21, Roger Ham, the New England Coordinator of the Lyndon LaRouche for President campaign will speak at Assumption College. The event will take place in the Auditorium of the LaMaison building at 7:30 pm. The event is free, and the public is welcome.
The event is being sponsored by the student-run TV station WACT, and by "La Provocateur," the student-run newspaper.
Mr. LaRouche, 77, who attended Northeastern University, is a perennial presidential candidate, having run for the presidency on six prior occasions. An anti-establishment presidential aspirant, Larouche is now seeking the Democratic nomination for the presidency. A native of New Hampshire, LaRouche and his wife now make their home in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Mr. LaRouche warns that the U.S. is experiencing the worst financial crisis of the post-war period. He believes that none of the major candidates are addressing this crisis, and that while the candidates are at logjams over the suburban votes, they are totally ignoring lower income Americans who, according to LaRouche, now make up eighty percent of the population of the U.S.
Mr. LaRouche claims that the apparent growth in the stock market and in the economy is false growth, and is ready to burst like a bubble. For Mr. LaRouche, this apparent growth is, in reality, a cancerous growth which will eventually destroy the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the world.
On the issue of voter participation in America's democratic process, Mr. LaRouche asserts that individuals are alienated by the traditional Democratic and Republican candidates because they focus primarily on the twenty percent of the population who live in the suburbs and who are in the upper income brackets. He dislikes George W. Bush and Al Gore; blaming Bush for death row murders and comparing Gore to Hitler.
Mr. LaRouche began his political career as a Trotskyite political organizer in the Socialist Workers Party in the 1960's. He was instrumental in forming the neo-fascist U.S. Labor Party in the early 1970s.