Silo
The most important thing: what crisis are we talking about?
If we have anything to thank the COVID-19 pandemic for, it is that it has precipitated and made transparent a crisis that has been predicted by many for quite some time. We all talk about crises today, but the degrees of breadth and depth that each one gives to it… »
Consistency and efficiency: Aspirations and challenges of humanist parties
Today, Wednesday January 6th, marks the 83rd anniversary of the birth of the ideologue of the New Universalist Humanism, the Argentine philosopher Mario Rodríguez Cobos, better known by his pseudonym, Silo. At the beginning of the 1990s, in the midst of the rise of anti-humanist neoliberalism, Silo deepened inhis book… »
Songs for the Sala: Songs of Inspiration and Hope
Listening to the tracks in this album, a collaboration among artists on five continents of songs inspired by the teachings and projects of Mario Rodriques Cobos (better known as Silo, writer, teacher, guide and founder of the Humanist Movements spiritual guide), can spark hope and inspiration as heartfelt music can… »
Homage to Silo in the Latin American Humanist Forum
In the context of the V Latin American Humanist Forum that took place virtually, today a tribute was paid to Silo by watching again the video of the one that Salvatore Puledda gave him in January 1999, in the hall of the former Chilean National Congress. After his moving… »
Towards a new culture: reconciliation as a liberating experience
By Susana Chialina* The so called countries and their different constitutions come from thousands of years of obsolete social models and systems. They are archaic, discriminating and violent and have shaped a revengeful type of culture which today is deeply engraved in the heart of the West. We can… »
Beyond empires, the Universal Human Nation
The post-election landscape in the United States of America is an indecent spectacle. Once again the discrepancy between the discourse that propagates democratic values and actual political practice in that country is confirmed. Various analysts have pointed out on many occasions how little objective relevance there is of the election… »
The wise rogue, Luis Ammann, has died
The wise rogue got tired of fighting and left us early this morning. He left us, that is to say, because beyond those first feelings of loneliness and emptiness, what quickly flooded those of us who loved him was the certainty that we now had someone who, from the other… »
Luis Alberto Ammann
I have in my hands the book Self-Liberation, on the inside cover of which you can read a brief review of its author, our dear friend Luis, who died last night at the Argerich Hospital in Buenos Aires where he had been hospitalized since October 25 for covid19 and then,… »
This is What We Really Need. ASAP
Our “modern” society is facing many challenges, each one as important as the next: the environment, economy, violence, health, education, security, energy, food, concentration of capital, unemployment, etc. It seems every social leader and politician has plans to respond to these challenges and knows exactly how to solve them. For… »
October 2nd a Nonviolence Day in the White West
This year it’s really complicated in this part of the world to hold a joyful celebration about nonviolence. The International Day of Nonviolence is a celebration of Gandhi’s birthday and an opportunity to commemorate the work of many others who have opened a path a to nonviolent conflict resolution, built… »
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