{"id":12574,"date":"2020-02-23T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12574"},"modified":"2020-03-07T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T01:16:13","slug":"2020-03-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-03-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><strong>Hank Pellissier<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., March 1, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Humanists: do any exist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Yes! Over 400 humanists are struggling to survive in the Ebola-ridden, war-ravaged northeast corner of this destitute nation. Hank Pellissier will describe how his nonprofit (Humanist Global Charity, aka Brighter Brains Institute) found this brave, free-thinking group, and what can be done to assist them. The amazing geography, vast mineral wealth, and brutal history of DR Congo will also be discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/396076237\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/396076237\">Humanism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo &#8211; Hank Pellissier<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/268922873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Like us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>See videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>To help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you would like to speak at a Forum, or know of someone who you think might be willing to speak at a Forum, please send an email about your idea to the <a href=\"mailto:hc-program@googlegroups.com\">HCSV Program Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank Pellissier 11 a.m., March 1, 2020 Humanists: do any exist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Yes! Over 400 humanists are struggling to survive in the Ebola-ridden, war-ravaged northeast corner of this destitute nation. Hank Pellissier will describe how his nonprofit (Humanist Global Charity, aka Brighter Brains Institute) found this brave, free-thinking group, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-03-01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Humanism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12587,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions\/12587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}