An online conference against censorship and how to defeat it was held on April 14-15, and a second session on April 28-9. The initiator was podcaster and activist Sarah Westall, and it was sponsored by “The Censored Conference” and “United for Free Speech.”
The broad theme was taken from a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” To this, the organizers of the conference added, “We will not stay silent on things that matter.”
There was a wide array of speakers, from across the political spectrum. Among those who spoke were Scott Ritter, Ellen Brown, Cynthia McKinney, financial analyst Andrew Schectman, Ezili Danto, who is a human rights attorney focused on Haiti, and Dr. Dave Janda, who introduced The LaRouche Organization’s Harley Schlanger. The title of Schlanger’s speech was “Cancel Culture and Censorship: The Case of Lyndon LaRouche.” Harley reviewed the growing spotlight on censorship run by the media cartels to defend the corrupt wars and neoliberal policies of the corporate cartels, centered in London and the U.S., which now makes them vulnerable. He focused on the history of the LaRouche case, going back to the 1970s and ’80s, and on the collaboration among the permanent bureaucracy, the two parties, and the media in attempting to silence LaRouche, and how the refusal to defend LaRouche during that period meant that those same networks felt free to run Russiagate and a war to dismantle Russia today.
The link to Harley’s presentation is below. In addition to being played at the conference, it was posted as his TLO Daily Update yesterday, with more than 10,000 views so far.
