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LaRouche in 2004 Press Release LaRouche Forces Ready to Confront Kerry March 3 (EIRNS)--With the March 2 Super Tuesday Democratic primaries now history, Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is squaring off against the other major contender, Sen. John Kerry. Only two other Democrats, Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich--who have not yet dropped out of the race--are still on the ballot in the remaining 17 primary states; LaRouche will be on the ballot in 15 of those (caucus states not included). Last week, LaRouche was certified in Indiana and Nebraska, which hold primaries in May. Campaign organizers and youth volunteers are now fanning out in Alabama, Montana, and New Jersey to collect petition signatures and recruit delegate-candidates for these June primaries. In Pennsylvania, a LaRouche stronghold since the 1980s, when candidates polled double-digit figures there, 25 members of LaRouche's Youth Movement are hitting campuses and neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area. They have found that people are moving away from the "spectator" mood--now that the gladiatorial phase of the primary campaign is over--and are ready to consider serious issues. The Pennsylvania primary is April 27 and a no-holds-barred organizing drive, combined with media spots and campaign events, is being planned. For the next round of primaries in Louisiana and Texas March 9, LaRouche representatives have addressed local and community events, including black organizations--such as Western States coordinator Harley Schlanger's March 2 address to the New Orleans chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and other groups--on the twin themes of overturning the economic depression and putting an end to Cheney's "preventive war" policy. Two half-hour TV broadcasts are also scheduled for Sunday, March 7, hitting Houston and Austin. In Illinois, where a cable TV broadcast is scheduled for March 13, organizers are holding rallies in the financial district and elswhere to defend Argentina's fight against the bankers' debt-collection efforts. Walking tours in Chicago and in the southern and western Cook County suburbs have turned neighborhoods into "LaRouche Outposts" for indepth discussions with voters who are now ready to think seriously about the issues. LaRouche organizers are "everywhere," from food co-ops, to transit barns, to government offices, churches, mosques, to liquor stores; and are now in the process of hitting 25 campuses throughout the state, to recruit more youth into the LaRouche campaign nationally. The Illinois primary is March 16. On March 1, LaRouche's Illinois delegate slate issued an endorsement of the call first initiated by the LaRouche Youth Movement in the Phillipines (see article, p. 8) against the IMF's genocidal policies for Argentina and in support of a New Bretton Woods agreement, as proposed by LaRouche. The message, being distributed on the streets of Chicago, especially in the financial district, reads in part, "We, the LaRouche Illinois delegate slate for the Democratic Party National Convention in Boston on July 26-29, express our solidarity with Lyndon and Helga LaRouche and the international LaRouche Youth Movement, in supporting President Nestor Kirchner, President of the Argentine Republic in his stand against the IMF. Dear Argentina, stand strong!" The LaRouche delegate-candidates point out that in 1986, when LaRouche candidates won the Illinois Democratic primary for Lt. Governor and Secretary of State, the same issue was on the table: a new, just economic order vs. the genocidal policies of the IMF. The LaRouche forces are determined that the bankers' genocide will not prevail this time around. - 30 -
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