Robert Fuller – “Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future”

August 15th, 02005 by Stewart Brand

Robert Fuller

The culminating human right

What does it take to change human habits of cruelty (such as slavery, genocide) and humiliation (racism, sexism)?

What do past and present efforts for human rights tell about their future?…

Robert Fuller is author of the ground-breaking SOMEBODIES AND NOBODIES: OVERCOMING THE ABUSE OF RANK.

“Personal is political,” Robert Fuller began, and he recounted his experience as president of Oberlin College in the early 1970s. It was the time when a number of movements were coming to a focus to empower women, blacks (and native Americans and Latinos), gays, and the disabled…

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 15th, 02005 at 11:59 am and is filed under Seminars.

  • Belinda Diamond

    I would like to speak to Mr.Fuller regarding a project I’ve been working on for the last several yesrs. It screams for reform in the medical setting and shows the ramifications of psychological damage due to mistreatment in the medical setting. Please E mail me . thank you

  • Nocirc

    protect the basic human right of male children. End male genital mutilation now. Girls are protected by law regardless of cultural excuses, lets extend the same protection to boys.
    genital mutilation needs to be outlawed in all its forms regardless of sex!

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