Stewart Brand wrote about the latest in the Long Now Foundation’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking:
As “senior communications consultant” to the current administration
and every White House and Defense Department leadership since
President Carter, John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, has been in
the thick of combatting terrorism for decades. In his view, the US
needs to deepen its thinking and activities against terror from
tactical to strategic— from short-term reactive to long-term
systemic.
“Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short,” John Rendon,
Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 7pm, Friday, July 14. The lecture
starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free ($10 donation always
welcome, not required).
The Rendon Group specializes in studying public opinion and media
activities worldwide, in real time, and in devising appropriate
responses. Some media characterize John Rendon as a right-wing
information warrior, but it that is not my experience of him, and it
belies his background as a campaigner for Michael Dukakis, Jimmy
Carter, and John Kerry. What characterizes Rendon to me is that he is
exceptionally informed, astute, and engaged. It should be a hell of a
talk.
The Herbst Theater is at Van Ness and McAllister in the War Memorial
Veterans Building, adjoining the San Francisco Civic Center.