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Yes, you heard that right. Tacoma Atheists is sponsoring this Friday’s Frost Park Chalk-Off (hope it doesn’t rain!) in downtown Tacoma at 9th and Pacific, kitty corner to the India Mahal, so run away from your cubicles very fastly at high noon, and go down and draw on the walls and sidewalks. Here’s a chance [...]

The Gary C. Booker Mental Self Defense Foundation is putting this on (Aug. 7th – 9th, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia), but I can’t access the site from where I am now. Why? I don’t know. Here’s something from another site. Even after many centuries of being disappointed and miserably failed by organized religion, Black Americans [...]

For full details, including the address, and to RSVP, please go to our Meetup. The Northwest Freethought Coalition (NWFC) is celebrating Independence Day and the recent arrival of summer with its 5th annual potluck picnic. NWFC group members, friends and area freethinkers are invited to this all-day event on Friday, July 3, 2009. Last year’s [...]

Sonoro, is a non-religious choir made up of untrained singers as well as professionals. “The Battle of the Sexes”: A Choral Clash of Colossal Conflict and Catastrophic Consequences!!! Kent Lutheran Church 336 2nd Ave S, Kent, WA June 6, 2009 7:00 PM Tickets: $10 adults, $5 youth and seniors over 55 songsofsonoro.com

Seattle Atheists May membership meeting will be held Sunday, May 31st at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Hill Public Library, 425 Harvard Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102, 206-684-4715. Jim’s topic is “Hope for Humanists.” Pirate recruitment to follow. (Yay!! Stop global warming!)

Richard Dawkins, October 9 11, at UW, Seattle, WA (details TBA as soon as I hear more) The Skeptic’s Toolbox, August 6-9 in Eugene, OR. The CFI Western Carribbean Travel Club Adventure, aboard the Carnival Miracle [yes, the irony has not escaped us!!], Nov. 12-20 FFRF 32nd annual convention, Nov. 6-8, Seattle.

Thanks to all who stopped by at the Street Fair yesterday. As always, it’s an interesting time. We were sandwiched between the Humanists (yay!) and a whole line of spiritual readers/Scientologists/Sisters of Mercy (no, not the band, unfortunately — that would have been just too amazing), waving little flags that had doves with crosses in [...]

Science journalist and author Chris Mooney will give a talk about his next book, “Unscientific America,” about the effects of science illiteracy in the general public.  Mooney will be joined by local experts, including Dennis Schatz of the Pacific Science Center, Steve Jones of Washington State University, and Sandra Archibald of the University of Washington’s [...]

Planned Parenthood will be hosting summer “table training” on Tuesday, May 26 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The training will allow you to help represent Planned Parenthood at events like Meeker Days, Out in the Park, Summer Fest, and more. To RSVP for the table training or to find out other ways to volunteer, email [...]

Tomorrow is the Letter Carriers food drive. It is the largest 1 day food drive in the world. Leave non-perishable food near your mail box and your letter carrier will pick it up and donate it to the local food bank. NALC announced that the nation’s largest food drive to combat hunger will be conducted [...]