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Comment by Harlem Humanists on February 21, 2013 at 2:49pm

2013 NYC Day of Solidarity for Black Non-Believers

The Day of Solidarity for Black Non-Believers (DoS) is held annually on the final weekend in February. Nonbelievers use this day as an opportunity to build genuine communal relationships and launch a wave of activism among non-theists of color. The DoS event is also an effort to bring out closeted nonbelievers and let them know that they are not alone.

 

The event is Free and open to the public.  ALL are Welcome.

 

Rio II Art Gallery

7th Floor (Main Exhibition Space)

583 Riverside Dr.

Harlem, NY 10030

137th Street “City College” Stop on #1 Train

1pm - 4pm

Sunday, Feb’ 24th 2013

Try to RSVP MeeUp CFI-NYC or Richie's List 

 

Light Refreshments and Snacks will be served.

 

Program - 

Ayanna Watson of Black Atheists of America has sparked a project focusing on the diversity of careers within the secular community. The project includes photographic portraits and some personal testimony about work experience, passion and aspiration.

Ayanna will introduce some of the project’s participants. There will be the chance to ask questions and share stories, including your own. 

 

Seon M. Lewis, The Spice Island Atheist and one of the voices of Caribbean Atheists, is a consistent Harlem Community member many of us know from his sharp observations, broad knowledge and warm easygoing style. He recently completed the book “From Mythology to Reality: Moving Beyond Rastafari”. His liberating intellectual journey from theism, through mystical Afrocentrism, to reasoned non-theism is one of following the evidence to where it leads. 

Seon will share how he came to write his book, which challenges  pseudo-history and false assumptions about a vital resistance culture. It also looks at how an inspiring rebel community can fall pray to sexism, racism, homophobia and xenophobia. The way he respectfully engages family and community in a conversation about mythology and fiction vs. reality and facts is an informative one. How to be Afrocentric without drowning in the dogma of Afrocentrism, or any “...ism” including our own, is part of what he’ll share. 

Sponsored by - Center for Inquiry - New York City, Black Atheists of America, African Americans for Humanism, CFI-Harlem & Harlem Humanists.

 

Dinner afterwards at local Restaurant -TBA

 

After Event Entertainment - "The Vagina Monologues"  to benefit 'Sanctuary for Families'.  6pm at All Souls Unitarian Church

E-mail - black(dot)beyond(dot)belief(at)gmail.com for more info and updates. Or call 646-820-CFIH (2344)

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on August 14, 2012 at 2:16pm

The Obama Re-Election Campaign, and the Left

The Ryan Nomination, The Obama Re-Election Campaign, and the Left
By Mark Naison

The Ryan Nomination, The Obama Re Election Campaign, and the Left

When the Communist Party and other leftists decided it was a priority to elect President Roosevelt in 1936, they didn't slow down their labor organizing and civil rights agitation - they escalated it.  ...

Obama supporters who want progressives to take precious energies away from grass roots movements to re-elect the president are, whether intentionally or not, sabotaging long term possibilities of democratic change. And they are NOT following the example of radicals from the Depression Era who built the industrial labor movement. ...

http://www.laprogressive.com/ryan-nomination/  

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on June 21, 2012 at 9:53am

Court: Human Rights Law Doesn't Cover Public School Students

New York's highest court ruled that the state's Human Rights Law does not protect students against harassment and discrimination in public schools.

As a result of today's ruling by the state Court of Appeals, these students are now denied access to the law's comprehensive protections.

read more »
http://www.lambdalegal.org/blog/ny-court-human-rights-law-students  

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on April 22, 2011 at 10:31am

 

DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN?
Do you want to send them to summer camp without God?
Check out Camp Inquiry
http://campinquiry.org/
OR
Camp Quest
http://www.campquest.org/

Comment by Ian Mason on December 15, 2010 at 3:42pm

A very eloquent letter by Mr. Kovic. We can only hope that it has some effect.

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on December 15, 2010 at 10:04am

author of Born on the Fourth of July
http://www.answercoalition.org/march-forward/statements/a-letter-fr...

A Letter from Ron Kovic to Young Veterans and GI's
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
By: Ron Kovic
"Raise Your Voices, Protest, Stop These Wars"

"Those of us lucky enough to have survived combat yearn for life now, for beauty, for all that is decent and good, for in war we saw the worst in the human being. We saw poverty and death, killing and savagery, the darkest sides of the human soul, the most hated parts of our humanity."

http://tinyurl.com/2bqq9nq

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on December 1, 2010 at 9:20am

Agnostic Dad Loses Custody of Kids

An Indiana judge pointed to a man's agnosticism when divesting him of joint custody.

READ MORE

http://www.alternet.org/story/149037/

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on November 30, 2010 at 12:18pm

OPINIONS on OBAMA


Real Socialist Calls Obama a Capitalist
by Berry Craig posted on Tuesday, 30 November 20102

2008 Socialist presidential hopeful says Obama is a capitalist .
Republicans, especially Tea Party types, still claim President Obama has a "socialist agenda." Democrats keep on denying it. Journalists dutifully report the dissing and the disavowals, claiming that's giving the public both sides of the story. Seldom do scribes ask Real McCoy Socialists like Brian Moore if the President is one of them. Moore says no way. "Obama's actions and policies are capitalist to the core."

Read the full story >
http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/real-sociali...

Cowards vs. Hypocrites: Why Democratic Politicians Despise the “Professional Left”
by Randy Shaw posted on Friday, 13 August 20102

Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs caused the biggest blogosphere firestorm of 2010 by publicly condemning the "professional left" during an August 10 interview. Many observed that while Republican politicians fear their base, Democrats "hate" theirs, a statement certainly borne out both by Gibbs' comments and those previously made by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel. I wrote a January 20, 2010 piece titled Blaming the Left on this dynamic, which gets worse as Obama's list of legislative accomplishments grows along with progressive disenchantment over the lack of transformational change. Republican and Democratic politicians treat their bases differently because the former is accused of lacking political courage while the latter is charged with hypocrisy; progressive criticism is more deeply felt because it challenges politicians' personal identities. ...

http://www.laprogressive.com/election-reform-campaigns/professional...

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on September 25, 2010 at 9:59am

Permanent War

Obama's Massive Power Struggle with the American War Machine

Even if Barack Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite war.

Pepe Escobar / Asia Times

READ MORE:
http://www.alternet.org/story/148297/

Comment by Geraldo Cienmarcos on September 24, 2010 at 2:31pm

MILLENNIUM GOALS

1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2: Achieve universal primary education
3: Promote gender equality and empower women
4: Reduce child mortality
5: Improve maternal health
6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7: Ensure environmental sustainability
8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Source: United Nations
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
International UN Summit
http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/

See also:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

[Note: There is some international progress and cooperation on the Millennium Goals. This international movement launched by the United Nations has received close to zero publicity in the USA mainstream press.]

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