{"id":14881,"date":"2024-06-22T00:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=14881"},"modified":"2024-06-28T04:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T04:38:42","slug":"2024-06-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2024-06-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Velshi: a Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/301788589\/\/attendees\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/humanists.org_2024_06_23_Ali_Velshi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14882\"\/><figcaption>Ali Velshi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., June 23, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we will watch and discuss Ali Velshi: a Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy. An interview from the Commonwealth Club of MSNBC\u2019s Ali Velshi by Rana Sarkar, the Consul General of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The interview covers three generations of Ali\u2019s family\u2019s commitment to public service and social justice from the apartheid regime in South Africa to Kenya to Canada and finally to the USA, describing the relative freedoms and restrictions encountered along the way. The interview is a reminder of the advantages we have living in a democratic and pluralistic society.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Velshi is a Canadian Journalist, a senior economic and business correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch this one-hour video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthclub.org\/events\/archive\/video\/msnbcs-ali-velshi-legacy-endurance-and-fight-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.commonwealthclub.org\/events\/archive\/video\/msnbcs-ali-velshi-legacy-endurance-and-fight-democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at Maker Nexus, 1330 Orleans Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1135. (On the first and third Sunday of the month, you can continue to attend our forum at the Mountain View Senior Center.) Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. COVID protocols will be followed. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click here<\/a>.<br>No password is needed &#8212; our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it&#8217;s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. 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An interview from the Commonwealth Club of MSNBC\u2019s Ali Velshi by Rana Sarkar, the Consul General of Canada. The interview covers three generations of Ali\u2019s family\u2019s commitment to public service and social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2024-06-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ali Velshi: a Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy&#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":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881"}],"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=14881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14896,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14881\/revisions\/14896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}