BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Tell_City X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Indiana/Tell_City BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2182797:Event:2034969 DTSTAMP:20130619T114844Z SUMMARY:Humanism & Activism (+Fun) DESCRIPTION:\nOur monthly discussion meeting, with casual meal to foll ow, is this Sunday. It will be the chance to touch base before fall sc hedules make many of our regular folk (especially our educators) distr acted for months. This is also a great chance to share ideas before th e presidential electoral comedy ramps up to absurdist tragedy.\n\nOur discussion theme this month is Activist Humanism. And vice versa. We'l l be joined for the first part of our meeting by long time Harlem secu larist and activist Nellie Hester Bailey. Then she'll leave us to go d owntown and literally continue her activism; and we'll turn our attent ion to the potentials for action we can see locally, nationally and in ternationally. \n\nWe'll also look at new stories for the \"This rede fines delusion - Bat-$h#t Crazy - file\". Bring you're own recent news items. \n\nRSVP - CFI-Meet Up or Richies List\n\nWhat?\n \nWe de fine ourselves as a skeptical and critical community. Critical thinkin g and skeptical inquiry guide our approach to understanding the world and, hopefully, even ourselves. \n \nMany who claim a Natural(ist) , Rational(ist), Secular(ist) and Human(ist)-centered worldview find ourselves with the challenge of how to live and create our vision of s ociety, guided by open curiosity, reason, science and - yes! - a lso creative inspiration, imagination, humor and awe. \n \nMany  - but not all of us - are motivated by the questions: \n \n\nDo we hav e an ethical obligation to step out of mere self-satisfaction and into action?\n\n\nHow do we live our humanism through activism? What are  the practical obstacles, advantages and disadvantages?\n\n\nHow do we use our tools for testing, thinking and creating sustainable soluti ons to deliver progress, excellence and justice? \n\n \nWho?\n \nJo ining us in our discussion about putting humanist values to work is N ellie Hester Bailey.  She's a long-time Harlemite. More importantly,  she's a thinker, organizer and communitarian, in the tradition of Hu bert Harrison and other humanists who laid the ground work before the Harlem Renaissance and since. Nellie's legacy begins with co-founding the Harlem Tenants Council in 1994. This has been a national and int ernational model for tenant-led housing justice. \n \nFor her commun ity-based efforts she's been awarded the Alston Bannerman Fellowship i n 2001; the Union Square Award for Grassroots Activists in 2001; and a 2005 Proclamation from the New York City Council for services render ed to indigent tenants in all boroughs.\n \nHer local work has globa l reach. Nellie Bailey was an International Election Observer in the f irst South African free elections in 1994; a delegate at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; and led a Harlem delegation to the 1996 UN Conference on Human Habitat II in Istanbul, Turkey.\n \nShe is also currently one of the guiding forces behind Oc cupy Harlem. Broadcasting from our own back yard, Ms. Bailey hosts the weekly radio program \"Inside Housing\" on WHCR 90.3 FM Radio in Harl em.\n \nNellie Hester Bailey will share the link between her own secu lar humanist and activist histories. This will be the jumping off poin t for us to explore similar potential connections in our own lives.\n  \nJoin Us!         We're expecting you!\n\n\nFor more information visit http://www.atheistnexus.org/events/humanism-activism-fun DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Tell_City:20120826T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Tell_City:20120826T160000 CATEGORIES:presentation, discussion, "&", social, gathering LOCATION:Adam Clayton Powell Jr. NY State Office Building WEBSITE:http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Adam+clayton+Powell+jr.+State+of fice+Building,++West+125th+Street,+New+York,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.808482,-73 .947258&spn=0.020854,0.041027&sll=40.808506,-73.947241&sspn=0.041708,0 .082054&vpsrc=6&t=m&fll=40.815953,-73.944511&fspn=0.021469,0.041027&z= 15&iwloc=C&layer=c&cbll=40.808506,-73.947241&panoid=DTwj_JEU4CoWiqeSoN _5SA&cbp=12,114.76,,0,8.83 URL:http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Adam+clayton+Powell+jr.+State+office +Building,++West+125th+Street,+New+York,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.808482,-73.947 258&spn=0.020854,0.041027&sll=40.808506,-73.947241&sspn=0.041708,0.082 054&vpsrc=6&t=m&fll=40.815953,-73.944511&fspn=0.021469,0.041027&z=15&i wloc=C&layer=c&cbll=40.808506,-73.947241&panoid=DTwj_JEU4CoWiqeSoN_5SA &cbp=12,114.76,,0,8.83 CONTACT:646-820-CFIH (2344) ORGANIZER:Harlem Humanists & CFI-Harlem ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Harlem H umanists":http://www.atheistnexus.org/profile/HarlemHumanist END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR