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Join the Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy in Washington DC for our Third Annual Civic Days at the Capitol April 24th-27th. Every year, we host Civic Days to bring nonbelievers, secular humanists, and skeptics from across America to Washington to engage in citizen lobbying on important issues (and also to have a little fun!)
A full schedule of events:
Saturday, April 24th:
- Social Gathering at the CFI DC Center with Pizza and Salad in the evening; Welcome to DC by Matt Separa, OPP Policy Analyst
Sunday, April 25th:
- AM: Policy briefings on legislative issues and lobby training
- PM: Two Exhibits at the Smithsonian: One on Charles Darwin and one on Human Evolution; Coffee and Dessert with Doug Crandall
Monday, April 26th:
- AM: A walking tour of Robert G. Ingersoll’s life in Washington DC led by Steve Lowe; lobby training; briefing by an invited member of Congress on current legislative priorities
- PM: Tour of Capitol Visitor Center including a visit to the House of Representatives’ Gallery
Tuesday, April 27th:
- All Day: Lobbying visits on Capitol Hill, debriefing, and departures.
The Center for Inquiry is accepting disaster-relief donations through its S.H.A.R.E. program to support those providing care to the survivors of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Jan. 12 near the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
All donations—100 percent with no operating costs retained—will be sent directly to the secular aid group Doctors Without Borders , which suffered the loss of all three of its medical facilities and is working against difficulties to provide the basics of first-aid care and stabilization.
The needs of those who’ve lost their family members, their homes, and their livelihoods will be very great. Your assistance will make a huge difference for the victims of this tragic disaster. Please join us and other humanists and skeptics as we help those in need in this time of crisis.
A contribution of any amount would be greatly appreciated by everyone at the Center for Inquiry. Thank you for your continued support of our work, and please consider a donation to S.H.A.R.E. in honor of those in Haiti who need help.
Please make your contribution to S.H.A.R.E. directly by clicking here or on the button above. All funds sent to S.H.A.R.E. are tax exempt in the United States.
S.H.A.R.E. has been recently renamed the Skeptics and Humanist Aid and Relief Effort and has now become a program of the wider-reaching Center for Inquiry, responding to the need to continue providing an alternative for those who wish to contribute to charitable efforts without the intermediary of a religious organization in this time of great need.
Here is a video by the Center for Inquiry. It’s not a new video, even though it’s dated July 21, 2009. I think it’s from during the Bush Administration, from what I can tell.
Anyway, it’s Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan and Victor Stenger. Moderated by D.J. Grothe (of Point of Inquiry), it took place at the New York Academy of Sciences at a Center for Inquiry conference titled “Secular Society and its Enemies.”
The panel discusses atheism versus science, science education, the nature of science, various strategies for advancing society in society, threats to science education including religion and popular culture, racism and sexism in science, and many other topics. It’s about an hour long and quite interesting:
“Who Are These Doubters, Anyway? The Demography of Unbelief”
presented by Tom Flynn, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and Editor of Free Inquiry magazine
Thursday, October 29, 7:00 p.m.
Carnegie Science Center
1 Allegheny Avenue, Pittsburgh
You’ve seen the various religion polls and the reported percentages of unbelievers – and the polls vary widely. How do you know which polls are more reliable? Join Tom Flynn as he explores how sociologists and pollsters measure religious belief and unbelief. He will also cover the controversies and scandals in the polling field, and what the polling data on religion really mean (for example, how many of those “no religious preference” people are really atheists?).
Tom Flynn is Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry, many addressing church-state issues, as well as the best-selling The Trouble With Christmas, about which he has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances in his role as the curmudgeonly “anti-Claus.” He is also the author of the critically acclaimed anti-religious black comedy science fiction novels, Galactic Rapture and Nothing Sacred. His latest work, The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America’s fastest growing minority: those who live without religion.
Join the Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy in Washington DC for our Third Annual Civic Days at the Capitol April 24th-27th. Every year, we host Civic Days to bring nonbelievers, secular humanists, and skeptics from across America to Washington to engage in citizen lobbying on important issues (and also to have a little fun!)
