IHS NewsHumanist 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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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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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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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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Humanist Community members who attended the 2008 AHA Conference in Washington, D.C. in early June will present their descriptions and impressions of the Conference for the benefit of those of us not lucky enough to have attended!
The Humanist Community Forum will meet at 11am at Mitchell Park Community Center. The Mitchell Park Community Center is […]
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“What If You Had to Ask 260 Million People for Permission to Marry the One You Love?” Pamela Brown, Marriage Equality USA’s Policy Director, will discuss the current political landscape on the issue of marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, including the recent California Supreme Court decision and possible November ballot initiative to add […]
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Christiane Cook, Ph.D., J.D., an active member of both ACLU and our HC, will present some serious flaws of the American Justice System — coerced confessions, erroneous indictments, and extravagantly harsh sentences — and suggest ways in which Americans can put pressure on legislators to make the American justice system more civilized and more humane […]
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Many shortcomings of the current system of electing the President stem from the rule that awards all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in that particular state. Thus, voters in two thirds of the states are in effect disenfranchised in presidential elections because candidates concentrate their attention […]
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Stephanie Tang, a lifelong activist with strong convictions, dedicates herself to issues such as ending wars, protecting immigrant rights, and stopping police brutality. She is a leader in local efforts of The World Can’t Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime. (The Nation magazine gave World Can’t Wait the “Most Valuable Crusade” award of 2007.) […]
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Our President Arthur Jackson claims that most people of the world would answer the title question with their own question, “Why would you want to?” He further asserts that the beliefs underlying their question have trapped us in a blind alley where we see impossible problems in every direction we look rather than magnificent possibilities. […]
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