Humanist Movement

The Humanist Movement is an international volunteer organisation following and spreading the ideas of Argentine writer Mario Rodríguez Cobos, commonly known by his nickname "Silo".

[7] Siloism draws on the works of Herbert Marcuse, George Gurdjieff, Erich Fromm and Wilhelm Reich, and on the philosophy of anarchism.

[8] The Humanist Movement can be traced back to a group called "Poder Joven" (Young Power) that was active in Chile primarily during the Allende presidency.

A crucial event was Silo's 1969 speech titled "The Healing of Suffering" at Punta de Vacas, in which he laid out his basic ideology.

"[15] Poder Joven members also faced harassment and threats from a group of young people called the Parra Ramona Brigade.

[20] An ex-member wrote a book under the pseudonym "Rex Voluntas" called Lies my guru told me, in which he alleges sexual assault by two fellow members while in the HM.

Another critical ex-member is Bob von Holdt, who digitized various documents from within the HM, and newspaper articles about it, which were published on the ex-silo.org website as the "San Francisco Files".

[22] On behalf of the Humanist Movement in Quebec, a member sued the newspaper Voir and a specific journalist for including the HM in a list of "sects using the internet".