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The Rally began with a military ceremony and Pledge of Allegiance, the original pledge without the divisive 1954 addition, "under God."
There are plenty of Atheists in Foxholes, including a substantial portion of FFRF's membership. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
FFRF Co-Presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor rallies the crowd (as her husband admiringly watches) and talks about FFRF's legal work (we have 4 full time attorneys on staff to address state church issues and about our new national television ad, which you can view here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEIBNeIBLY&feature=channel
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
FFRF Co President Dan Barker greeting his fans.
Support Dan by joining FFRF:http://ffrf.org/get-involved/membership/
Day 0
I wasn't sure when I was going to start my365. In light of recentdiscussions on the 365 group, I decided today was as good a day as any. I have been a big fan ofthe project for
quite some time. And have found many of my favorite artists (Mav,Stephen,Mickey,
Dottie,AJ, and others) on Flickr through my observation of the project. The 365 project was started by Mav, when he was inspired by one of Stephen's photo's. Mav decided to create a group for the project so other could participate. The Movement was born. The rest is history. The problem begins when Stephen decides to tell "his"story (on hisprofile , 05/20/08, the podcast site, the founder's day group) of how "he created" the 365 project which seems to downplay and even leave out what Mav did. I don't like to make things racial. And by no means am I calling Stephen or any of his fan boys that came to his defense, a racist. But I am a realist. Racism has influenced us all. And we all at some point exhibit those undertones both consciously and subconsciously (I have yet to meet a white person that thinks O.J. was innocent). I feel that the discussion took on a racial undertone. White folks there immediately came to the defense of white man that they felt was being wrongly attacked by a black man with no regard to what he actually wrote. I didn't make anything up. I didn't exaggerate what he said. I quoted his own words. Yet I was accused of being angry. My language was criticized. I was spoken to profanely by one poster that Stephen later gives tribute . Why are black men always labeled angry when we disagree with a white person? Then I was told I shouldn't have made this a public matter. Why not? So a white man can say whatever he wants in a public forum, but a black man must disagree in private? I thought slavery was over. I didn't know we had to be careful "massa maybe listening ". I thought about Saul Williams. "where my niggas at?" Where was my support? Where were the freethinkers of 365? Silent. "mass gonna caught us" I thought flickr was a community about openness and forward thinking. Why can we have difference of opinion in the open? We are only allowed to be honest in private? I have always been one to call things as I see them. I don't sugar coat a damn thing. You either love me or hate me for that. If I get caught with my hand in the cookie jar, I will man up and admit to it. I expect other men to do the same. All he had to do was say your right I've been doing it? It obvious. It written in his own words. How can it be denied? Mav himself came to my rescue to squash the whole thing. But the white folks aren't finished with me yet. I haven't learned my lesson I guess. I reached out to Stephen. I offered to exchange phone numbers so we could talk as men. But he chose to be "honest" to his fans. Where I have been whitewashed to a "someone". So in the spirit of Muhammad Ali I'm gonna make him say my name. Ali bumaye! Ali bumaye! Ali bumaye! Ali bumaye!
Photography courtesy of RXA Photography - rxaphotography.com/
Sue-Ann Post is a comedian with a serious side. Her hilarious one woman shows have dealt with the usually somber topics of religion, sexuality, incest, diabetes and monogamy and have shocked and delighted audiences around Australia, the UK, the USA and New Zealand. Sue-Ann’s thought-provoking weekly column appeared in The Age for three years and was nominated for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Print Media Award. Her articles have also appeared in The West Australian, the UK’s Freethinker and Versal in the Netherlands.
From left to right: Murthy A V N, Pankaj Kulkarni, Anil Gulecha, Aditya Manthramurthy, Jabir Ahmed, Dolly Koshy, Veda Kulkarni and Krishnan Parthasarathi.
Dan Barker De-baptizes the atheist masses. Get de-baptized today
ffrf.org/shop/certificates/set-of-2-frameable-debaptismal...
FFRF Co-Presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor rallies the crowd and talks about FFRF's legal work (we have 4 full time attorneys on staff to address state church issues and about our new national television ad, which you can view here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEIBNeIBLY&feature=channel
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
Secular Songstress Shelley Segal wows the crowd at the Reason Rally. The night before she played at FFRF's private dinner and did a duet with FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor rallies the crowd and talks about FFRF's legal work (we have 4 full time attorneys on staff to address state church issues and about our new national television ad, which you can view here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEIBNeIBLY&feature=channel
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
Richard Dawkins will be speaking at FFRF's October 12-13, 2012, convention in Portland, Oregon.
More info can be found here: ffrf.org/outreach/convention/
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
The Rally began with a military ceremony and Pledge of Allegiance, the original pledge without the divisive 1954 addition, "under God."
There are plenty of Atheists in Foxholes, including a substantial portion of FFRF's membership.
FFRF Co President Dan Barker greeting his fans.
Support Dan by joining FFRF:http://ffrf.org/get-involved/membership/
The Rally began with a military ceremony and Pledge of Allegiance, the original pledge without the divisive 1954 addition, "under God."
There are plenty of Atheists in Foxholes, including a substantial portion of FFRF's membership. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
FFRF gave out rally signs, stickers, copies of Freethought Today (the only freethought newspaper in the country), bags, and more!
Dan Barker De-baptizes the atheist masses. Get de-baptized today
ffrf.org/shop/certificates/set-of-2-frameable-debaptismal...
Early Birds check out FFRF's free stuff. In no time the FFRF table was completely swamped with people! It was wonderful to see so many atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers.
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
American anarchist and publisher.
Born April 7, 1854 at Dartmouth, MA
"Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854-1939) published The Radical Review from 1877 to 1878, and the anarchist magazine Liberty from 1881 to 1908. The journal’s banner read “Liberty – Not the daughter but the mother of order,” signaling Tucker’s stance as a philosophical or individualist anarchist. His magazine was the first to publish George Bernard Shaw in the U.S., and to translate Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Tucker also published other works considered radical at the time, such as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, and Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol.
A curious contradiction perhaps was Tucker’s deep commitment to the fine points of typesetting for all his publications. For his eightieth birthday in 1934, friends reprinted his 1892 text Why I Am An Anarchist (Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Oriole Press 1934) in a limited edition of 100 copies with “Initial and embellishments . . . by Frederic W. Goudy," the modern master American book and type designer with a consciously archaic style.
Born to an old Massachusetts family, Tucker attended M.I.T. and lived in France before working for the Boston Globe. He moved to New York in 1892, and later opened the Unique Bookshop, which specialized in the works of anarchists, atheists and freethinkers. The bookstore burned beyond recovery in 1908, and Tucker and his lover Pearl Johnson, with their 6-week old infant daughter, moved first to France, before relocating permanently to Monaco."
from New York Public Library website digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm...
The odd angle of the picture is how it is mounted in the passport application volume.
FFRF Co President Dan Barker De-Baptizes new FFRF members.
Get your De-Baptismal Certificate signed by Dan Barker today! ffrf.org/shop/certificates/set-of-2-frameable-debaptismal...
Ben Wise discussing "William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker"
Jessica Ahlquist, gave a moving speech about how, when others alienated her and spouted messages of hate, FFRF stood by her and gave her support at a private FFRF dinner. Here, she addresses the crowd of "evil little things."
FFRF Co President Dan Barker De-Baptizes new FFRF members.
Get your De-Baptismal Certificate signed by Dan Barker today! ffrf.org/shop/certificates/set-of-2-frameable-debaptismal...
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker plays some of his secular music for the crowd. Get it here: ffrf.org/shop/freethought-music/
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
Music Teacher and HomelessnessNika (name changed for privacy) was one of our clients on 12/11/2021. She explained that she is a music teacher who has 4 hours of work per week. Sometimes she sleeps unsheltered and sometimes she uses a shelter or shares a tent. It is difficult to get a job when she cannot wear clean clothes…Nika (name changed for privacy) was one of our clients on 12/11/2021. She explained that she is a music teacher who has 4 hours of work per week. Sometimes she sleeps unsheltered and sometimes she uses a shelter or shares a tent. It is difficult to get a job when she cannot wear clean clothes to an interview. But, she does have a cell phone and uses the Georgetown Ministry Drop-in Center as address. She was thankful for the cold-weather gear we passed out.
Nika wanted to talk about religion and god. She was not sure if there is a god or not. We suggested that she might be an agnostic. But the word she identified most with was Freethinker. She does believe in a concept like Gaia, but does not consider it to be god--more like a gentle aspect of the earth. She thought gaia might be watching over the earth, but she wasn't sure. She explained that some shelters expect her to pray communally, which she is not inclined to do.
She let us take her picture and agreed to let us use it in the blog because she was unidentifiable. Homelessness carries a stigma, and she didn't wan't to be identifiable.Joseph Shaw
This lovely Stick-style, 1884 meeting hall was designed by architect Alfred Clas. The Freethinkers' congregation (or Freie Gemeinde) was formed by German immigrants in 1852, and meets to this day, one of the last such congregations in North America. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Sauk City is a small town located on the Wisconsin River in southeastern Sauk County.
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker plays some of his secular music for the crowd. Get it here: ffrf.org/shop/freethought-music/
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us:
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker plays some of his secular music for the crowd. Get it here: ffrf.org/shop/freethought-music/
FFRF was a major sponsor of the Reason Rally and is the largest Atheist/Agnostic/Freethought group in the country. We hope someday you'll join us: