Greed, Exploitation, and Hoarding are prioritized in the USA financial system that places top value on solitary profit. The result is beggars, billionaires, endless war, and eco-catastrophe. New economies are desperately needed. Democratic Socialism will be advocated, and beyond that, the community-building utopia of empathetic Gift Economics.

Hank Pellissier (he/him)
Hank is founder/director of Humanist Mutual Aid Network, a nonprofit working mostly in Africa. He lives in Piedmont with his wife Carol, they raised two bio-daughters, and they’re now guardians of a foster refugee girl from Ethiopia, plus Hank has a bio-son (he was the sperm donor to two lesbian friends). Hank is currently a contracted education writer for GreatSchools.org, he was previously managing director for a futurist think tank, the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology, and a columnist for Salon.com, SFGate.com, and NYTimes (SF edition) His main interest is wealth distribution/global egalitarianism/poverty alleviation; he just launched a website titled Eat The Rich. He also writes limericks and doggerel, decades ago he was a performance artist and a SF Slam Poetry co-champion.

We meet in person at 1924 Cedar Street and on Zoom for Worship Services on Sundays at 10:30 AM. If you’d like to attend via Zoom, please email worshiponline@bfuu.org for the meeting ID and link. You can also stream the service live and catch the replay on BFUU’s Youtube channel.