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R. Elisabeth Cornwell - We Are Atheism
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A short video shot in Feb 2013 that RDFRS made for We Are Atheism
http://www.weareatheism.com/ |
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Program #142: Psychic Cari Roy
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with New Orleans Psychic Cari Roy.
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Program #141: Astrophysicist Isaac Meisenheimer
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with Isaac Meisenheimer, an astrophysicist at the University of New Orleans.
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Protest at the Good News Club Spectacular
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Protest at the Good News Club Spectacular in Winston-Salem, NC, March 9, 2013. Video shot by Scott Burdick and Sue Kocher, edited by J. D. Mack. |
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Science, Atheism & the Joyful Life -- by Sean Faircloth, Richard Dawkins Foundation
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Sean Faircloth is author of Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All & What We Can Do About It which offers a specific plan for secular activism. as he does in this talk: http://bit.ly/11iGcX8 Faircloth is Director of Strategy & Policy with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science. Faircloth served ten years in the Maine legislature and was elected Majority Whip by his colleagues in his last term. Faircloth successfully spearheaded over thirty laws.
This talk was sponsored by the Humanist Society of Western Australia and recorded at the University of Western Australia in Perth on April 2, 2013.
Videography by Noah Norton. |
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Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature - BHA Voltaire lecture 2013
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British Humanist Association Voltaire Lecture 2013 | presented by Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity. Chaired by Jim Al-Khalili. London, March 2013 |
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Fred Edwords: New Initiatives--What UnitedCoR Can Do for You
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UnitedCoR, the United Coalition of Reason, is launching exiting new initiatives this year. In addition to its nationally famous billboard and bus ad campaigns, designed to help nontheistic people find sympathetic groups in their local communities, it will now turn its attention outward. That is, UnitedCoR will begin to put the spotlight on prejudice against people in the community of reason and on wasteful, non-charitable spending by leading local religious organizations. A panel of CoR leaders will add their commentary.
Biography: Fred Edwords is the National Director of the United Coalition of Reason, bringing local group leaders together in cities across the United States and training them in public relations and effective use of the media. A leading voice for humanism in the United States and abroad, Fred served for fifteen years as AHA executive director (1984-1999), twelve years as editor of The Humanist magazine (1994-2006), the first president (2002-2005) of Camp Quest, and served on the boards of the International Humanist and Ethical Union and the National Center for Science Education, among many other accomplishments. |
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Richard Dawkins - We Are Atheism
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Dr. Richard Leakey Recorded Acceptance of Isaac Asimov Science Award
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Richard Leakey's prolific career as paleoanthropologist, politician, and environmentalist has spanned five decades. His pioneering work in the Turkana Basin region of northern Kenya has unearthed much of the existing fossil evidence for human evolution.
Currently he serves as chairman of the Turkana Basin Institute, a scientific research organization which builds upon the 40-plus years of prehistory research in the area around Lake Turkana. In addition, Leakey is a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and former director of both the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service. |
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Are Good News Clubs Good For Our Children?
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Good News Clubs are infiltrating our public schools an turning them into tax-payer funded indoctrination centers.
Presentations by Rebecca Hale, Katherine Stewart, Richard Dawkins, Eric Cernyer and Sean Faircloth.
Presented at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. February 27, 2013 |
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Friday Night Awards Banquet
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Awardees
Dan Savage, Humanist of the Year
Biography: Dan Savage is being named the 2013 Humanist of the Year for his long history of sex-positive writing, advocacy of separation of church and state, and work for LGBT youth. Savage also speaks out frequently on a variety of other issues including the Iraq War, the War on Drugs, and birth control. His syndicated relationship and sex advice column, Savage Love, is a frank, humorous and open discussion of sexuality. In 2010, Savage and his husband Terry Miller began the It Gets Better Project to help prevent suicide among LGBT youth. He is the author of several books, including How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself, The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant, and It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living.
Richard Leakey, Isaac Asimov Science Award
Biography: Richard Leakey's prolific career as paleoanthropologist, politician, and environmentalist has spanned five decades. His pioneering work in the Turkana Basin region of northern Kenya has unearthed much of the existing fossil evidence for human evolution. Currently he serves as chairman of the Turkana Basin Institute, a scientific research organization which builds upon the 40-plus years of prehistory research in the area around Lake Turkana. In addition, Leakey is a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and former director of both the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Entertainment: The Galapagos Mountain Boys (www.scientificgospel.com) |
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Saturday Awards Luncheon
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Award Presentations
Carl Coon, Lifetime Achievement Award
Biography: After retiring from a long career as a diplomat, in 2004 Carl Coon was elected to the AHA Board of Directors, shortly afterwards becoming vice president, a position he held for five years. Coon graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in 1949 before engaging on his diplomatic career that took him mostly to Middle East and South Asia, serving as ambassador to Nepal from 1981-1984. After retiring in 1985 he began to write based on his anthropological and evolutionary psychological views about the evolution of human society. His writings include two books: Culture Wars and the Global Village and One Planet, One People, Beyond "Us versus Them." Coon has been an advocate of the idea that the whole world must now be viewed as "us" to cope with current global challenges.
Katha Pollitt, Humanist Heroine Award
Biography: Katha is a feminist poet, writer and essayist focusing her wit on political and social issues, including abortion rights, racism, welfare reform, feminism, and poverty. Her bimonthly column, "Subject to Debate," appears in The Nation magazine, where she began contributing in 1980. Her column won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2003. Her 1992 essay on the culture wars, "Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me..." won the National Magazine Award for essays and criticism, and she won a Whiting Foundation Writing Award the same year. In 1993 her essay "Why Do We Romanticize the Fetus?" won the Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She has written two books of poetry, Antarctic Traveller, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Mind-Body Problem. Her work has been included in multiple anthologies and she has been a guest on numerous national TV and radio programs. |
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The State of Humanism
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As a democratic organization, the American Humanist Association holds an annual membership meeting for members to voice their feedback about the AHA's work. You'll hear updates from AHA leaders and staff on various programs, and take the opportunity to get your questions about humanism answered in an open Q&A session. |
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Saturday Night Awards Banquet
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Greta Christina, LGBT Humanist Pride award winner.
Slam Poetry from Tommy Raskin, Humanist magazine's 2012 essay contest winner. |
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Sean Carroll: Purpose and the Universe (keynote speaker)
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The idea of a "purpose" or "reason why" has a strong hold on the human imagination, and has a special resonance when we think about the universe itself. However, modern science has gradually eroded the role of purpose in our best understanding of nature. This represents an important step forward in human understanding, as we can see how apparently purposeful features of reality arise through undirected laws of nature. But it represents a challenge for questions of morality and meaning. I will argue that purposes can be created or emergent even when they are not fundamental, and that this perspective has important consequences for how we live our lives.
Biography: Dr. Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech in Pasadena, CA doing research on theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. He is especially interested in inflation, the arrow of time, and what happened at or before the Big Bang. He's done work on dark matter and dark energy, modified gravity, topological defects, extra dimensions, and violations of fundamental symmetries. His latest book is The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Higgs Boson Leads us to the Edge of a New World. It's about the Large Hadron Collider, the search for the Higgs Boson, and the people who made it happen.
As an author, he has also written From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time and a graduate textbook, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. He has recorded lectures for the Teaching Company on Dark Matter and Dark Energy and the Mysteries of Time. He has maintained a popular blog since 2004. |
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Teresa MacBain: The Tinman, Scarecrow, Lion, and Dorothy: Finding Community on the Yellow Brick Road
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Teresa MacBain: The Tinman, Scarecrow, Lion, and Dorothy: Finding Community on the Yellow Brick Road
Community. This word has been tossed around by freethinkers for years, but in the last year it has come to the forefront of our conversations. What is community? Should we seek out community? Is religion the only place where community is found? Or necessary? This talk will look at each of the above questions and share the four basic stages of community building, growing and maintaining.
Teresa MacBain holds the distinction of being the first female graduate of The Clergy Project, an invitation-only "safe house" of current and former ministers who no longer hold the supernatural beliefs of their religious traditions. She became a non-believer after more than 20 years of ministry. Teresa is currently serving as acting Executive Director for the Humanists of Florida Association and sits on the board of The Clergy Project. Teresa's media appearances include CNN's "Sunday Morning," NPR, "The Alan Colmes Show," "The O'Reilly Factor," USA Today and the Washington Post. Her first book is due to be released this year. |
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Amanda Knief: The Golden Calf--Why the Faith-based Initiative Needs to be Sacrificed
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The faith-based initiative funnels billions of tax payer dollars to religious organizations that claim to offer social services. The federal government has offered little proof of oversight of this program and the money it has doled out. This has drawn the ire of secular and nontheistic social organizations as well as church-state separation watchdog groups. But what if there was a more nefarious purpose for first the Bush Administration and then the Obama Administration for maintaining the faith-based initiative? Why is it likely this program will never go away no matter what party is in the White House? Amanda will draw back the curtain on what is happening behind the scenes of this program and why every White House will want to keep it going.
Biography: Amanda is the managing director and in-house counsel for American Atheists. She also serves on the boards of the American Humanist Association and the Institute for Humanist Studies. She is author of The Citizen Lobbyist: A How-to Guide for Getting Your Voice Heard in Government (Pitchstone 2013). Amanda specializes in constitutional law and grassroots lobbying activism as well as offering talks about qhow the law positively and negatively affects nontheists at work and in life. |
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Rob Boston: The Secular Moment--Challenges Ahead for Church-State Separation
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Lately there has been much talk about the increasing secularization of America. Is this a real trend? What does it mean for church-state separation? Have we finally vanquished the Religious Right? Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State will discuss these topics and more during this talk.
Biography: Rob Boston is senior policy analyst for Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) and the assistant editor of AU's monthly magazine Church & State. He is recognized as a leading writer and researcher on church-state topics and an articulate advocate for the separation of church and state. He frequently writes about the political goals of the Religious Right and other church-state issues, such as religion in public schools, tax aid to sectarian education and religious freedom. He covers the U.S. Supreme Court for Church & State and has attended oral arguments in every church-state case at the high court since 1988.
Boston is the author of three books: Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics (Prometheus Books, 2000); The Most Dangerous Man in America? Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition (Prometheus Books, 1996) and Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State (Prometheus Books, 1993; second edition, 2003). |
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Relgious Fundamentalism and the Abuse of Children (panel discussion)
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Panel: Richard Dawkins (moderator), Sean Faircloth, Janet Heimlich, Katherine Stewart, Liz Heywood
A symposium of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, US
Richard Dawkins Biography: Richard Dawkins is founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, vice president of the British Humanist Association and is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. His 2006 book The God Delusion has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into over 30 languages. Dawkins was the American Humanist Association's 1996 Humanist of the Year.
Sean Faircloth Biography: Biography: Sean Faircloth served five terms in the Maine legislature, successfully spearheading over thirty laws. He conceived the Secular Decade plan, a specific strategic vision for resecularizing American government, earning a reputation for innovative ideas and political strategy, writing about his Ten Point Vision of a Secular America in his book Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What to Do About It. Faircloth is Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason.
Janet Heimlich Biography: Ms. Heimlich is the author of Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, the first book to take an in-depth look at religiously motivated child abuse and neglect in the United States. As a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, Ms. Heimlich won nine journalism awards. She also writes non-fiction, investigative articles. In addition to her writing, Ms. Heimlich heads the Child-Friendly Faith Project, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the impact that belief and faith practices have on children in America.
Katherine Stewart Biography: Katherine Stewart is the author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. She started her career in journalism working for investigative reporter Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice and freelanced for Newsweek International, Rolling Stone, Marie Claire and others. She cowrote the book about the musical Rent and, after moving to Santa Barbara in 2005, published two novels about 21st century parenting. Most recently she has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, and Religion Dispatches. She lives with her family in New York City.
Liz Heywood Biography: Liz Heywood contracted a life-threatening bone disease when she was thirteen years old. Her parents chose prayer instead of medical care, a right protected by Massachusetts law. Liz survived, but the infection destroyed her knee. Though she learned to limp on her deformed leg, Liz struggled with chronic depression, panic attacks, and suicidal thoughts until she left the Christian Science Church at age thirty-two. Her leg was surgically uncorrectable and eventually amputated. Today Liz speaks out for children who suffer from religious abuse. Her statement was read at the Secular Coalition of America's 2010 meeting at the White House. |
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Phil Zuckerman: Irreligion Rising--Causes and Consequences of Growing Secularity in America
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More Americans are rejecting religion than ever before. According to some estimates, between 20% and 30% of Americans are now non-religious. How do we explain this rapid increase of secularity? And what might it portend? The underlying causes of the recent rise of irreligion in America will be discussed, as well as the expected consequences for the decades ahead.
Biography: Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College. He is the founder the Pitzer College secular studies program and the author of several books, including Faith No More and Society Without God. He lives in Claremont, CA, with his wife and three kids. |
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