jeudi 9 mai 2013

• American Atheists Seeks Public Policy Director
  American Atheists, Inc., a non-profit and nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization dedicated to the separation of religion and government and the equality of atheists, is seeking a qualified individual to take a leadership role in the development and implementation of its public policy (...)
  
  
• May 15 is International Imad Day
  American Atheists is proud to support the Council of Ex-Muslims in Morocco, the first public atheist organization in a country with Islam as the state religion. Things have been very difficult for the Council’s 22-year-old founder, Imad Iddine Habib. Morocco’s High Council of Ulemas, the highest (...)
  
  

mardi 7 mai 2013

• American Atheists Names Four New Regional Directors
  A message from Ken Loukinen, Director of State Operations: Announcing four new Regional Directors! ______________________________________________________________________________ Chuck Miller, Alabama Charles "Chuck" Miller is a civil rights activist and business person living in Huntsville, (...)
  
  
• American Atheists names Greg Lammers as National Affiliate Director
  Cranford, NJ—Greg Lammers, who has served as American Atheists’ Missouri State Director until now, will step up to the role of National Affiliate Director overseeing approximately 120 affiliated groups nationwide. “I am truly excited by his acceptance of this position,” said President David (...)
  
  

lundi 6 mai 2013

• A Strasbourg, succès du rassemblement public avec la Libre Pensée et l'Union RationalistePour l'abrogation du concordat d'Alsace-Moselle et pour la Séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat
  Il fallait oser et cela a été fait. Au cœur de la terre concordataire et de l'exception cléricale, plus de 200 laïques se sont rassemblés sur la place de Broglie pour exiger que la laïcité, au nom de l'unité de la République, s'applique désormais dans les 3 départements d' Alsace-Moselle. Ce (...)
  
  
• 20 September Deadline for submissions to 5th Passion for Freedom Art Festival
  One Law for All’s fifth Passion for Freedom Festival will take place from 02-09 November 2013 at UNIT24 Gallery, 20 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0FD. The Festival will present selected works from artists, film makers and writers whose work speaks for freedom and artists selected from an (...)
  
  

jeudi 2 mai 2013

• American Atheists to Appeal World Trade Center Cross Judgment
  Cranford, NJ—American Atheists announced that it is filing an appeal against a March 29 ruling that including the World Trade Center (WTC) Cross in the WTC Memorial’s Historical Exhibit is not a state action endorsing religion.  The judge on the case, Deborah Batts, wrote in her ruling that “the (...)
  
  
• Des propositions de lecture pour mai
  La commune n'est pas morte : Les usages politiques du passé de 1871 à nos jours Eric Fournier Aujourd'hui analysée par les historiens comme un singulier crépuscule des révolutions du XIXe siècle, la Commune de Paris fut longtemps considérée comme l'aurore des révolutions du XXe siècle, comme une lutte (...)
  
  

mercredi 1er mai 2013

• Sharia: What’s Going On?
  One Law For All and the Lawyers’ Secular Society are pleased to announce a student research competition on the subject of sharia law. The competition is sponsored by the National Secular Society and the winner will receive a prize of £300. The winner and the two runners-up will have their essays (...)
  
  

mardi 30 avril 2013

• Making Room for Non-Theists
  Making Room for Non-Theists By Becky Garrison Even though humanist chaplain Greg Epstein and his staff played a key role in the outreach efforts following the Boston Marathon bombing and several members of their community were among those seriously injured as as I reported at Religion (...)
  
  

jeudi 25 avril 2013

• CONSEIL DES CULTES ET JOURNEE DE SPIRITUALITES :LA MUNICIPALITE D'ARGENTEUIL RETIRE SON PROJET
  Le 3 décembre 2012, Monsieur le Maire Philippe Doucet proposait au Conseil Municipal de la ville d'Argenteuil la création d'un Conseil des Cultes et d'une Journée des spiritualités, en violation de la loi de 1905 de Séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat. Immédiatement, la Libre Pensée condamnait (...)
  
  
• On BBC Panorama Programme on Sharia Courts: It is enough now
  This week’s BBC Panorama programme “Secrets of Britain’s Sharia Councils” confirms why One Law for All has been campaigning against the discriminatory parallel legal system running counter to British law for nearly five years. As has been repeatedly stated, including in “Sharia Courts in Britain: A (...)
  
  

mardi 23 avril 2013

• Join us in New York City on Thursday for #DefendDissent: A Protest to Support Free Expression in Bangladesh
  Twitter hashtag #DefendDissent 4 atheist bloggers have been arrested; one of them has already been executed and another stabbed, and 80 more bloggers face arrest. PLEASE NOTE: For New York City, we will meet at Grand Central Station at 4:30 PM at the big clock today (Thursday, April 25) (...)
  
  
• Press Release: Atheists Denounce Religion as Reason for Boston Terror
  PRESS RELEASE American Atheists, Inc. www.atheists.org For Immediate Release: April 23, 2013 For More Information Contact: David Silverman, President 908-276-7300 x5, dsilverman@atheists.org Dave Muscato, Public Relations Director 908-276-7300 x7, dmuscato@atheists.org Atheists Denounce (...)
  
  
• 28 April 2013, Subordination of women, Leicester
  Anne Marie Waters will be speaking on “How real is the subordination of women in British Society?” at Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB from 6.30 pm.  All are welcome.  http://www.leicestersecularsociety.org.uk/
  
  
• APPEL POUR LA RÉHABILITATION COLLECTIVE DES FUSILLES POUR L'EXEMPLE DE LA GUERRE DE 1914-1918
  Voilà près de dix ans maintenant que des organisations comme la Libre Pensée, l'Association Républicaine des Anciens Combattants, l'Union pacifiste, le Mouvement de la Paix, et de nombreuses sections départementales de la Ligue des droits de l'Homme, se prononcent ensemble pour une réhabilitation (...)
  
  

lundi 22 avril 2013

• 23 May 2013, Is Islam a Religion of Peace? Oxford University
  Anne Marie Waters will be debating the question ‘Is Islam a Religion of Peace?’ at Oxford University Student Union on May 23rd 2013. Further details to follow..
  
  
• La Libre Pensée sur France Culture - avril 2013
  Bonjour, au micro Roger Lepeix, de la Fédération Nationale de la Libre Pensée. Nous allons vous entretenir aujourd'hui du boson de Higgs, c'est-à-dire des résultats d'une expérience très importante qui a été menée au CERN de Genève et qui a abouti à la confirmation d'une hypothèse concernant l'existence (...)