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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."
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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.
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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.
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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:
The "this is what an atheist looks like" photo booth was a hit! You can get a t-shirt with that slogan here:
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.
Yes! Harry Perry rules! This guy is a Venice Beach legend, I swear he is always there! He has an awesome vibration about him.
It was an honor for my daughter to get a pic with him. She wears her tiny Harry Perry Band t-shirt with pride. :)
Get your rally signs here! The "this is what an atheist looks like" sign was incredibly popular. You can get a t-shirt with that slogan here:
FFRF gave out rally signs, stickers, copies of Freethought Today (the only freethought newspaper in the country), bags, and more!
FFRF's table featured billboards FFRF has put up around the country. The top billboard went up in Nashville after a the pictured member, Grace, created her own billboard on our website. Come out of the Closet and make your billboard today: ffrf.org/get-involved/come-out-of-the-closet/
Who knows, maybe you'll be the next person picked to go up!
JIMI HENDRIX Street Art by Eme Freethinker (@eme_freethinker) am Blackland Metal Pub (@blackland_berlin), Lilli-Henoch-Str. 1, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete, Mai 2021
James Marshall „Jimi“ Hendrix (* 27. November 1942 als John Allen Hendrix in Seattle, Washington; † 18. September 1970 in London) war ein US-amerikanischer Gitarrist, Komponist und Sänger.
Dan Barker De-baptizes the atheist masses. Get de-baptized today
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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...
Another Instance of Providential Neglect.
BLAINE. WASH, May 23, 1891.
WATSON HESTON. Dear Sir and Friend: I am a reader and admirer of THm TRUTH SEEKER, especially
of the illustrated portion of it. I inclose you a clipping from the Seattle Post Intelligencer of May 18th, containing a short account of two little girls lost in Nebraska. It at once reminded me of the poor woman found frozen in Dakota, whose motto was, " The Lord is my shepherd," etc. Such cases are stinging rebukes to the blind followers of an unreasonable, unmerciful Jehovah. With best wishes for your success, I am, Yours for the truth alone, JOHN W. MERRITT.
OMAHA, May 17. For a week the entire male population of Bedford, Thomas county, has been engaged in a search for two little girls of John Hammond, who were lost in the sand-hillls surrounding the town last Sunday. The children, one eight and the other six, went to visit their sister who live six miles north of Bedford, and about 5 o'clock they started home. They had to go about a mile and the road led through the sand-hills. The children lost their way in gathering flowers. The parents and neighbors searched the hills that night and Monday a general alarm was given. Thursday at noon the youngest child was found where she had fallen, completely exhausted and half-covered with sand, fifteen miles from where the children left the road. The little one was unconscious. She was soon restored, however, and said her sister had gone home. Search went on. It continued till this afternoon, when the dead body of the older child was found ten miles north of Dunning, Blaine county, fully seventy-five miles from where the children lost their way.
We're all born atheists. This young man is lucky enough to have a father who won't inculcate him into a particular sectarian tradition.
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...
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 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...
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.
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.
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:
Christopher Hitchens v. John Lennox
Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama
3 March 2009
(taken from second row w/o a flash - obviously not the best...)
LEMMY KILMISTER + geflügelter Totenkopf - Street Art by Eme Freethinker (@eme_freethinker) am Eingang des Blackland Metal Pub (@blackland_berlin), Lilli-Henoch-Str. 1, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete, Mai 2021
Ian Fraser „Lemmy“ Kilmister (* 24. Dezember 1945 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; † 28. Dezember 2015 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein britischer Rockmusiker, Mitglied der Space-Rock-Band Hawkwind, Gründer der Rockband Motörhead sowie deren Sänger und Bassist.