Category: Video+discussion

Facilitated by Alex Havasy

11 a.m., June 20, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, we will hear and discuss an interview by Freddie Sayers with Professor Francis Fukuyama, on ‘What Trump Got Right’. Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist, political writer, and writer.

You can view the interview at https://unherd.com/thepost/francis-fukuyama-trumpism-came-from-the-soul/

One commentator stated: Since Aris Roussinos’s fantastic essay on https://unherd.com/ earlier this month, “Why Fukuyama was right all along,” I’ve been getting to know the much-misunderstood thinker’s writing. It turns out that, far from the triumphalist credo of 1990s liberalism, ‘The End of History’ is a disquieting, and prescient, sketch of what the liberal era would feel like, and how it would eventually go wrong.

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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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Carl Angotti and Alex Havasy, discussion facilitators

11 a.m., May 9, 2021

At this Sunday Forum, long time member Carl Angotti and our President Alex Havasy will lead an audience discussion of “Cancel Culture and the ‘Canceling’ of Richard Dawkins”.

The “Canceling” of the Richard Dawkins’ 1996 Humanist of the Year award has brought about strong feelings among some humanists and members of the AHA in particular.

For those of you not familiar with this topic, check out any of the myriad descriptions of it:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=american+humanist+association+richard+dawkins+humanist+of+the+year

We will discuss the ideas behind the “Cancel” culture that seem to lead to Cancel culture responses. We will do this via two short videos, and then will discuss the general concepts behind this idea.

We will start with a short take on a humorous approach to the idea of the concept, since there aren’t videos available for this particular “Cancel”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sKX2Gk7eFY
(“When Cancel Culture Cancels Everything”)

Then we will move on to the concepts of tolerance and “racism” and their relation to this cancel movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbihoXj0QwM
(“Canceling cancel culture with compassion”)

After this, for the balance of the time, we will open up the discussion to the current situation involving Richard Dawkins.

Join us this Sunday to review this timely topic.

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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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Facilitated by Alex Havasy

11 a.m., April 4, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, Alex Havasy will host as we watch and discuss 4 short videos on ways to make a government more democratic. After the videos, we’ll discuss what you believe would improve democracy and what you think might make it worse.

The videos are: The Rule that Broke American Politics, a 6 minute YouTube video on the history of the filibuster; An Election System that Puts Voters (Not Politicians) First, a 10:19 minute TED Talk by Amber McReynolds on voting in the U.S.; 3 Ways to Upgrade Democracy for the 21st Century, a 14 minute TED talk by Max Rashbrooke about novel governing precedures that have empowered citizens; and What If We Replaced Politicians with Randomly Selected People?, a 19:20 minute TED Talk by Bret Hannig.

You can view the videos at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4jHLteXag

https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_mcreynolds_an_election_system_that_puts_voters_not_politicians_first

https://www.ted.com/talks/max_rashbrooke_3_ways_to_upgrade_democracy_for_the_21st_century#t-14130

and

https://www.ted.com/talks/brett_hennig_what_if_we_replaced_politicians_with_randomly_selected_people#t-238746

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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):

https://www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist

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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Hosted by Alex Havasy and Carl Angotti

11 a.m., March 21, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, a video about HR 1 – the “For the People Act” will be shown, and then discussed by audience members.

The video shows Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) discussing HR 1, the “For the People Act”, which will implement voting reform for all national elections. The bill is designed to prevent voter suppression, and simplify voting and registering to vote. His discussion constitutes most of the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jW3QZWUVTM.

After watching the video, Alex Havasy and Carl Angotti will open discussion on details of the bill, the difficulties in passing it, and what concerns we may have about it.

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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):

https://www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist

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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RSVP on Meetup here.
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See videos of our past Forums here.
To help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (http://www.humanists.org/blog/membership/) of the Humanist Community.

Do your online shopping at https://smile.amazon.com/ch/94-6173979, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.