The Humanist Movement is a collection of people who participate in the
proposals of New Humanism, also known as Universalist Humanism. These
proposals (which also imply a sentiment and a way of living) can be
found outlined in the Document of the Humanist Movement.
The HM is not an institution, and has no organization. Rather, it
constitutes an ambit of convergence and interchange for members of the
different affiliated organizations that have emerged from it over time.
These are: the Humanist Party, the Community for Human Development,
Convergence of Cultures, World without Wars and without Violence, and
the World Center for Humanist Studies.
Although working in different fields, all of these have a common aim:
to Humanize the Earth. They also have in common the methodology of
Active Nonviolence and the proposal for personal change as a function of
social transformation.
In Canada, at the moment only World without Wars and Violence is
active. You are welcome to join that, or start any one of the others.
The roots of the HM lay in a public address by its
founder, Silo, on 4 May, 1969, known as the "Healing of Suffering". This address was given in a remote mountainous
outpost in the Andes called Punta de Vacas, close to the border of
Argentina and Chile.