(http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/) September's end marks Banned Books Week, a celebration of the Freedom to Read, established by the American Library Association in 1981 in response to growing attempts to ban books in public libraries across the country. First observed in 1982, we celebrate it each year during the last week starting in September, to remind our fellow citizens not to take […]
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Davis Community Meal project The Davis Community Meal project serves meals to the hungry, the poor, the indigent, the outcast. It happens in bucolic Davis city, so near to us, where compassionate citizens have developed a secular solution for the problem of hunger, and need our help. So join us in this effort. Your reward will be an […] |
2 events,Secularists and freethinkers worldwide celebrate International Blasphemy Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Day) or "Blasphemy Rights Day" to mark the anniversary of when images of Muhammad appeared in the Denmark newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Conservative Muslims reacted to the drawings with worldwide protests, riots, embassy burnings and death threats. Formally founded in 2009 by Ronald Lindsay, Directory of the Center of […] |
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OK, it's not really an AOF event. But AOF founded it in 2002. We still promote and sponsor it because we are proud. The Annual California Freethought Day Festival will convene for the twenty-fifth year on the West Steps of the California State Capitol. As in years of yore the local community of freethinkers will bring […]
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1 event,Freethought Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freethought_Day), or "Freethought Coming-Out Day," is a day to give closeted freethinkers a platform from which to declare themselves. The formal calendar holiday is October 12, but many groups plan celebrations for the closest weekend. Some recognize the week as Freethought Week, or the entire month of October as Freethought Month. In this […] |
1 event,International Skeptics Day is like a party for your brain, where doubt is the guest of honor! This special day lands on October 13th each year, inviting everyone to question the usual and embrace some healthy skepticism. But there’s a twist. This day also gets celebrated on January 13th and sometimes even on the first […] |
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Tim Flood’s first thought was to tell his mother’s difficult story of abuse in Washington State in the early 1940s. Instead, he wrote a novel, loosely based on his mother’s experience but set far away in the Middle East and long ago in the 13th c. BCE. He saw the deep beliefs behind underlying the […]
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