Secrecy Screening event

The South Central PA Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union will hold a free screening of the film Secrecy at 7:00 PM Wednesday, July 15 at the Mid-Town Cinema, Reily Street, Harrisburg. Directed by Harvard professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss, the film takes a hard look at whether government secrets really make the country safer.
The film is the winner of the Boston Independent Film Festival, was named Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival and was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.

More information is available on the film's website: http://www.secrecyfilm.com/ .

Hope to see you there.

Not surprised. Creationist lies.

As a courtesy, I am mirroring a video criticizing the creationist lobbyist group The Discovery Institute. DI has filed a false claim of copyright infringement against the producer of this video. A potential lawsuit may be brewing. The point of mirroring is that the Internet content is released into the wide and can not be withdrawn. Censorship is the last refuge of the scumbags.

Foundation Beyond Belief

Foundation Beyond Belief is a new charitable and educational foundation created (1) to focus, encourage and demonstrate humanistic generosity, and (2) to support a nationwide nonreligious parent education program.

Check it out.

Secular coalition meeting at the White House

Do you think that this group would have been able to get a meeting with the last administration? We have representation now and someone is listening. That's a start. See this news post by the Secular Coalition of America.

Steve Neubauer and Jim Grove at the York street fair

...and don't forget Matt Juba's dinosaur. Last year we challenged Jim to read "The God Delusion". Jim said he read parts of it, and thinks Dawkins is "stupid". Jim and his crowd are basically nice, but very, very deluded people. In past years, a friendly Nazi operated as a clothing vendor next to us. This year, he got his application in late and was assigned to another space. He told us he was disappointed, as he always enjoyed the street drama that Jim's crew provided.

Family oriented

Are you interested in topics about raising a nonreligious family? Would you like to be around some people who completely support you on this? Join us for the Freethought Forum.

The topic is titled "Raising Doubt: Living with Family, Friends, and Acquaintances in a World of Religion,"
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Along the River Front (east shore, Front Street) in Harrisburg on the steps at the Market Street Bridge.

In the event of very inclement weather the meeting will move to the covered walkway above Third Street between the Hilton Hotel and the Strawberry Square food court, second level.

Contact panwebmaster@gmail.com for more information or to RSVP.

Barrel empty, message delivered

No Bibles in the barrel but that was expected...

The exposure was important. Many people that are not nonbelievers still think that wasteful congressional spending is wrong. Therefore, some allies might have been made.

At the CATPO-tal

QUOTEWORTHY:

"Hopefully, the recycled paper will be turned into truly useful items, such as science books and tissue products." , Carl Silverman with Concerned Atheist Tax Payers Organization, in a release calling on state lawmakers to either pay the state for the free Bibles they were given or turn them in to his group to have them recycled.

Source: The Associated Press