Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Alex
Mark Schlosberg has served for the last six years as Police Practices Policy Director for the ACLU of Northern California. In this capacity he has worked on a variety of policing issues, including racial profiling, accountability systems, surveillance, crowd management, and use of force. He managed the successful 2003 ballot campaign to strengthen San Francisco’s […]
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Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Alex
Humanist Community member Melvin Bers will talk about what he views as being some of the paths that a person could follow in order to become a believer in Secular Humanism.
The Humanist Community Forum will meet at 11am at Mitchell Park Community Center. The Mitchell Park Community Center is located at 3800 Middlefield Road, Palo […]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by armineh
On Sunday, July 6, Paul Gilbert spoke to the Humanist Forum on the subject of racism. The forum was eloquently presented, challenging, and thought-provoking. One small anecdote that Paul told was particularly meaningful to me as I think about what we are accomplishing in Ghana, through the Ghana Assistance Project of the Humanist Community. Paul […]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Alex
Jane Huang is a Stanford student hired as NorCal Campus Organizing Intern in April by Secular Student Alliance to organize atheist/agnostic/humanist/skeptic/freethought campus groups in northern California. This grant was put together as a result of Humanist Community efforts. She will bring us up to date on what’s been accomplished so far and hopes and plans […]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Alex
Are you prejudiced? This presentation by Paul Gilbert, Executive Director of the Humanist Community, will attempt to show that you are. And, if we are prejudiced, what are we to do about it? Come join the discussion.
The Humanist Community Forum will meet at 11am at Mitchell Park Community Center. The Mitchell Park Community Center is […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by armineh
We hear from our friends in northern Ghana (West Africa) that it is raining a lot. Last summer when Peter and Catherine Bishop visited there, draught was causing great distress. Now the Ghanians are happy for the rain, but it is creating new problems.
Our current project is to assist a computer school to be run […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Alex
Dr. Dennis A. Etler, a Mandarin-speaking Physical Anthropologist who conducted research in China during the 1980s and 90s, is President of Secular Humanists of Santa Cruz County. He recently returned from a visit to the PRC after an absence of nearly a decade. He will speak about his impressions of China, especially that nation’s response […]
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