Category: Video+discussion

Ali Velshi: a Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy

Ali Velshi

11 a.m., June 23, 2024

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’s Ali Velshi by Rana Sarkar, the Consul General of Canada.

The interview covers three generations of Ali’s family’s 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.

Ali Velshi is a Canadian Journalist, a senior economic and business correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for MSNBC.

You can watch this one-hour video at https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/msnbcs-ali-velshi-legacy-endurance-and-fight-democracy.

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.

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What Makes People Sick?

First Surgeon General of California, Nadine Burke Harris

11 a.m., May 26, 2024

Join us this Sunday in person OR online, as we watch and discuss two videos about health.
In How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime, pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris talks about the dramatic physiological damage caused by a childhood abuse. You can watch this 16-minute 2014 video at:
https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime

In What makes us sick? Look upstream, doctor Rishi Manchanda talks about the health damage done by an adverse social environment. You can watch this 18-minute 2014 video at:
https://www.ted.com/talks/rishi_manchanda_what_makes_us_get_sick_look_upstream

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This week, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at Maker Nexus, 1330 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale CA, 94089. (On the first and third Sunday of the month, you can continue to attend our forum at the Mountain View Senior Center.) We may visit a nearby restaurant for lunch after the forum.
If you attend in person, COVID protocols will be followed. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom. Help us make sure we have room for you. If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to let us know.

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How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future

Scott Galloway

11 a.m., May 19, 2024

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How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future is an 18-minute TED talk by Scott Galloway. In it he describes how programs and policies in the U.S. take money from the needy and give it to the wealthy. His speaking style is both humorous and angry, and (you’re forewarned) he places much of this injustice on the shoulders of us older Americans.

Prof. Galloway was born November 3, 1964 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, public speaker, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. He was elected to the 1999 class of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow, which recognizes 100 people under 40 who have had impact on a global level.

Galloway self-describes as an atheist. He advises his students not to follow their passion, but to follow their talent.

You can watch this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E.

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On the first and third Sunday of the month, such as this Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040. Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation for lunch.

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.

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Ron Reagan: Not Afraid of Burning in Hell

Ron Reagan

11 a.m., May 12, 2024

Join us this Sunday in person OR online, as we watch Ron Reagan: Not Afraid of Burning in Hell, a 27-minute interview from the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) with Ron Reagan Jr., the son of former president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. You may have seen Ron’s ads on TV for FFRF.
He’ll discuss his early lack of belief in religion and the resulting absence of any disillusionment. He also talks some about making the FFRF ad and the reactions to it.
You can see this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7996hjxbJ_I

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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.

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Photo by Paul Schultz – originally posted to Flickr as Ron Reagan, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6857068

Bassem Youssef: Changing the World

Bassem Youssef

11 a.m., April 28, 2024

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Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World. In this recent broadcast of Ways to Change the World on British television presents the Arab view of the Hamas-Israel war, politics, and his disillusionment with the West

Bassem Youssef is a comedian, television host, author, and a surgeon. Bassem started his own podcast in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, then moved into TV. In 2013, he was one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, and that same year one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. He is widely remembered for a 2023 Piers Morgan Uncensored interview about the Hamas attack on Israel and the broader Israel-Palestine conflict.

You can watch this interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuR3BfpAqpw&t=308s

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This week, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists in the Group Study A Room at the Milpitas Library, 160 N Main St, Milpitas, CA 95035. (On the first and third Sunday of the month, you can continue to attend our forum at the Mountain View Senior Center.)
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Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712
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