Rennie Davis

Rennie Davis was a prominent American anti-Vietnam War protest leader of the 1960s. He was one of the Chicago Seven.

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American - Vietnam War - 1960s - Chicago Seven

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Davis was the National Director of community organizing programs (the Economic Research and Action Project, or ERAP, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) for the Students for a Democratic Society. Davis appeared in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention to appear on a panel with Tom Hayden discussing "a progressive counterbalance to the religious right."

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Students for a Democratic Society - Chicago - 1968 - Democratic National Convention - Tom Hayden

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Later, in the early 1970s, he became a notable follower of the Divine Light Mission and its Guru Maharaj Ji (now called Prem Rawat). Davis acted as Maharaj's spokesperson during the DLM's widely-publicized Millennium festival in the Houston Astrodome in November 1973.

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1970s - Divine Light Mission - Guru Maharaj Ji - Millennium festival in the Houston Astrodome - 1973

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Davis later became a venture capitalist and lecturer on meditation and self-awareness. He has appeared on Larry King Live, Barbara Walters, and CNN and provided advise in business strategies for Fortune 500 companies. Davis is the founder of Ventures for Humanityhttp://venturesforhumanity.net/, a technology development and venture capital company commercializing breakthrough technologies.

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Venture capitalist - Meditation - Self-awareness - Larry King Live - Barbara Walters - CNN - Business strategies - Fortune 500 - Ventures for Humanity

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In an article published in the Iowa Source in 2005, Davis said:

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If you were to do a survey of what causes misery on earth, it would tend to fall into three broad categories. One, we can call systems: the economy, AIDS, terrorism--things that are 'systems' in nature. The second would be a list of everybody to blame: Bush is the cause of my misery, my ex-wife, my boss. The third would be things that come utterly out of left field: a tornado through town, a tsunami, events that are not in our apparent control. What this huge list would have in common--something everybody would agree with--is that the cause of misery are things outside 'myself'. But the cause of our misery is absolutely, positively not at all what we believe it to be. This is not a new view. Certainly saints and philosophers in every generation have basically argued if you want to change the world, you have to change yourself.

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