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Prisons – The Challenge

Amir Varick Amma and Arthur League

January 31, 2016

Amir Varick Amma is a community organizer in the “All of Us or None” program of the Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC, www.prisonerswithchildren.org) organization. He spent 20 years in a New York state prison on a nonviolent drug conviction. Arthur League is also formerly incarcerated, a co-founder of “All of Us or None,” a former Black Panther, and a LSPC board member.

Humanist Community Forum (2016-01-31): Prisons – The Challenge (Amir Varick Amma and Arthur League) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Inequality: A Video and a Discussion

Facilitated by Paul Gilbert

January 24, 2016

Longtime Humanist Community member and leader Paul Gilbert will show a video, and lead a discussion, about inequality.

Sociolingustics and the Deaf Community

Adam Frogel

January 17, 2016

Adam Frogel has an M.S. from U.C. Berkeley, and worked as an interpreter, translator and transliterator for 42 years. He will discuss the above topic.

The Unexpected Belle La Follette: Progressive Model for 2016

Prof. Nancy C. Unger

January 10, 2016

In doing the research for her new book Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer, Santa Clara University Associate History Professor Nancy C. Unger discovered that the work of previous historians (including herself!) had drastically underestimated this great humanist (1859-1931). Come discover the surprising truths about the radical reformer denounced as “disgraceful to the white race” who fought for votes for women, peace, civil rights…and more. This presentation, richly illustrated by PowerPoint images, will present Belle La Follette as a model of progressive reform for 2016.

Life, Death, & The World (with a little Happiness thrown in)

James Hilgendorf

January 3, 2016

James Hilgendorf (http://www.jameshilgendorf.org) is a filmmaker, speaker, and the author of ten non-fiction books. He and his wife Elizabeth have been practicing Buddhism for forty-three years with the Soka Gakkai International (http://www.sgi.org). He will discuss:

Arnold Toynbee – State of the world. Where are we heading three thousand years from now?
Physics: The shift from classical to quantum. Holograms. You are the Center.
Death. Leo Tolstoy, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel.
Happiness: Relative and absolute. Not what you’d expect. Love of fate. There are no negatives.

Humanist Community Forum (2016-01-03): Life, Death, & The World (with a little Happiness thrown in) – James Hilgendorf from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.