Rennie Davis

Rennie Davis

Rennard Cordon Davis is an American anti-war activist active in the 1960s. He was one of the Chicago Seven defendants charged for large-scale protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the early 1970s Davis became a follower of Guru Maharaj Ji and his Divine Light Mission.

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Summary Rennie DavisRennard Cordon Davis is an American anti-war activist active in the 1960s. He was one of the Chicago Seven defendants charged for large-scale protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the early 1970s Davis became a follower of Guru Maharaj Ji and his Divine Light Mission. Davis later became a venture capitalist and lecturer on meditation and self-awareness. He is the founder of Foundation for a New Humanity, a technology development and venture capital company commercializing breakthrough technologies.

He has appeared on Larry King Live, Barbara Walters, CNN, Phil Donahue, VH1, and other network programs. Davis returned to Chicago for the 1996 Democratic National convention to speak at the \”Festival of Life\” in Grant Park. In an article published in the Iowa Source in 2005, Davis said: If you were to do a survey of what causes misery on earth, it would tend to fall into three broad categories – things that are’systems’ in nature, AIDS, terrorism, and misery.