[extropy-chat] "The pace of human rights" FRIDAY

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Fort Mason, San Francisco, 
Friday, August 12th

At the suggested forward request from Stewart Brand:

"From time to time a portion of humanity declares a new human right. 
Behavior thought normal for thousands of years is suddenly 
challenged.  What does it take for the new right to prevail?  It 
takes steady bearing down on the issue over decades and centuries...

"Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future," Robert Fuller," 
7pm (doors open), Friday, August 12, Fort Mason Conference Center, 
San Francisco.  The lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm.  Admission is 
free ($10 donation very welcome, not required).

Bob Fuller is the author of SOMEBODIES AND NOBODIES: OVERCOMING THE 
ABUSE OF RANK.  The book defines "rankism"--- the pervasive misuse of 
power relationships that is expressed not just in racism and sexism 
but in every form of humiliation.  Humans have the universal right, 
the new movement insists, to be treated with dignity.  Fuller was 
president of Oberlin College when it integrated racially in the early 
1970s.  Before that he was a highly regarded physicist working with 
John Wheeler.  After that he was a "citizen diplomat" quietly helping 
end the Cold War.  On stage he is a vivid story teller.

This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, 
given every second Friday at Fort Mason, organized by The Long Now 
Foundation.  Future speakers in the series include Ray Kurzweil, 
Freeman Dyson (with Esther Dyson and George Dyson), Clay Shirky, Sam 
Harris (author of THE END OF FAITH), and Stephen Lansing.  If you 
would like to be notified by email of forthcoming talks, please 
contact Simone Davalos--- simone at longnow.org, 415-561-6582.

You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be
interested."

				--Stewart Brand

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Stewart Brand -- sb at gbn.org
The Long Now Foundation - http://www.longnow.org
Seminars: http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/Seminars.htm
Seminar downloads:   http://seminars.longnow.org

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