ALTON – campaign to end free speech
Two murders that provoked Lincoln to run for President
launches on the 185th anniversary of Lincoln’s first major speech, January 27, 2023.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865). Lithograph.
Lincoln as a young man, Thomas Hicks (1860).
ALTON V-Launch Program – January 27, 2023
On January 27, 1838, twenty-eight year old Abraham Lincoln gave his first major speech, starting his twenty year path to become Senator of Illinois (1858) and then President (1860). The Atlantic, founded in 1857 by literary leaders Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier, was led by its first Editor, poet and abolitionist James Russell Lowell, who endorsed Abraham Lincoln for President, showing courageous editorial leadership.
In his great speech two decades earlier, following the murder of Elijah Lovejoy in Alton, Lincoln asked, “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide” – a warning for us today.
ALTON Book Talks & Podcasts
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LIFToff Campaign Planning
Donald G. James, ALTON invited chapter author, APPLE Podcast. FullerVision Podcast + Recalling Buckminster Fuller’s World Game – documentary film
Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, ALTON invited chapter author, tours with his film Ferguson Rises, winner of a Tribeca Audience Award, Television Critics Award, many other awards. Black Son Day remembers the anniversary of the murder of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, St. Louis, MO. 50,000 attendees (live + virtual) in past years.
July 4th, 2022 at 1 PM. Center for Global Justice,
Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende. “The Bandwagon Effect & Fascism: Abraham Lincoln’s Warning Today.” Virtual with the CGJ network, Economia de los Trabajadores, local universities, and the network for self-management in Russia.
