Video and Discussion – “Talking to Strangers – What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know”

Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., October 10, 2021

At next Sunday’s Humanist Forum (October 10), we will watch the video “Talking to Strangers – What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know” by Malcolm Gladwell. Alex Havasy will lead the discussion after the video. He chose this video because he thinks that it makes interesting points about human nature.

You can preview the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgr1Wv8mwh8.

Malcolm Gladwell is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.

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Video and Discussion – “The Moral Side of Murder”

Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., October 3, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum we will watch Michael Sandel talk about “The Moral Side of Murder” with his students. Afterwards, Alex Havasy will facilitate a discussion of our reactions to the video.

Michael Joseph Sandel (born 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School, where his course Justice was the university’s first course to be made freely available online and on television.

His many books include The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?; What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets; Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?; The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering; Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics; Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy; and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice.

You can see this 55 minute video here.

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Video and Discussion – “Greens Go Nuclear in Canada”

Ray Sundby, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., September 26, 2021

At this Sunday’s Forum, Ray Sundby will show the video “Greens Go Nuclear in Canada,” and lead a discussion afterward.

You can view the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu1GIxigNyc

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Inalienable: The Rights Way to Meet Population Challenges on a Crowded Planet

John Seager

11 a.m., September 19, 2021

You’re invited to a Zoom presentation by John Seager, Population Connection’s President & CEO, entitled “Inalienable: The Rights Way to Meet Population Challenges on a Crowded Planet”, on the challenges of rapid population growth.

John will discuss the vital connections between population growth, social justice, environmental challenges, and women’s rights. World population is projected to reach 8 billion in just two years, and it’s crucial that we address the causes and negative impacts of rapid population growth on people and the planet.

Before joining Population Connection, John worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A veteran of 50+ political campaigns, John served as Chief of Staff for a former Congressman from Pennsylvania. John earned a BA in Political Science from Trinity College, Connecticut.

John has spoken on population, the environment, and women’s empowerment at colleges and universities and for progressive organizations across the US.

Founded in 1968 as Zero Population Growth (ZPG), Population Connection is the only national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources.

Please visit their website at www.populationconnection.org!

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Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.

If you don’t intend to ask any questions or make any comments during this Forum, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view the Forum as it occurs (in real time):

www.facebook.com/humanistcommsv/live

Note the new website above for streaming the Forum.

If you may want to ask a question or make a comment during this Forum, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view, and possibly take part in, the Forum as it occurs (in real time):

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09

(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)

If you don’t have the Zoom app installed on your desktop computer, then joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, and then take you to the meeting.

You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:

314247393

as the meeting number, and

255787

as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.

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Inalienable: The ‘Rights’ Way to Meet Population Challenges on a Crowded Planet – John Seager from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo

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Private Family Foundations

Carl Dimailig

11 a.m., September 12, 2021

This Sunday, Marine Corps Veteran and retired chiropractor, Carl Dimailig, will discuss private family foundations.

A private family foundation is a type of private foundation set up by a family, funded with the family’s assets and often run by family members who can also participate in its charitable grant-making. It enables you to establish a philanthropic legacy, and it can also provide income tax and estate tax benefits.

Carl Dimailig helps individuals and families reduce their income tax liability by up to an additional 30%, protect & grow assets exempt from capital gains tax, and leave a lasting legacy for their heirs and the causes they care about.

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Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.

If you don’t intend to ask any questions or make any comments during this Forum, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view the Forum as it occurs (in real time):

www.facebook.com/humanistcommsv/live

Note the new website above for streaming the Forum.

If you may want to ask a question or make a comment during this Forum, then please click the below link on Sunday around 11 a.m. in order to view, and possibly take part in, the Forum as it occurs (in real time):

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09

(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)

If you don’t have the Zoom app installed on your desktop computer, then joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, and then take you to the meeting.

You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:

314247393

as the meeting number, and

255787

as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.

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Private Family Foundations – Carl Dimailig from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo

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