July 27 Humanist Forum: Sunshine Ordinance in San Jose andMore Openness with Police Records

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 […]

July 27 Humanist Forum: Paths to Secular Humanism

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 […]

Ghana Assistance Project Update (by Catherine Bishop)

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 […]

July 20 Humanist Forum: The Secular Student Alliance’s Northern California Intern

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 […]

July 13 Humanist Forum: Unconscious and Structural Bias in American Life

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 […]

Ghana Assistance Project - From the Bishops

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 […]

July 6 Humanist Forum: A Humanist’s Impressions of China

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 […]