The Humanist Community in Silicon Valley (HCSV)
A Membership Chapter of the American Humanist Association
Serving San Jose, Silicon Valley, Stanford, and the S. F. Peninsula since 1962
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P.O. Box 60069, Palo Alto CA 94306-0069
Office: 650-964-7576
One of Humanism’s leading lights, Lloyd Morain, is gone.
Click to read AHA’s obituary for him.
Activities, Events
►Calendar -- updated Aug 28
►Special Events (unique or rare) -- updated Jul 14
►Regular Activities (frequent) -- updated Aug 28
►Sunday Forums -- updated Aug 9 (covers Sep) 		► Darwin Day (latest: Feb 2010) originated in the HC!
• click for map & directions to our Forums
º E-mail to our Program Committee if you are a potential speaker (include description of talk, dates available) or if you have an idea for a future Forum.
Blogs, News
Our BLOG and its orange <feed> icon RSS feed Blog by Students (who studied Humanism in the summer)
Visitor Info
-- to learn
about Humanism
or the HC:
Family Program
Sunday, 11:00 - 12:00, simultaneous with Forums: our Family Program (Children’s Program)
The Family Program will meet only on July 11 and Aug 22, resuming weekly meetings on Sep 5.
Our Family Program has received national attention by ABC’s Nightline and Time magazine; links to their articles
HCSV Views
Views that we are certain that a majority of us take:  
religious liberty
a woman's right to choose
stem cell researchAR
torture 		church/state separation
same-sex marriage
streams of Santa Clara CountyAR
death sentencesAR (in Santa Clara County)
• We also support the USAflag National Day of Reason, 1st Thursday in May
Member services
Considering a donation to the HC or the AHA? Visit donation page.
Branches
Parallel group: HCSV "Meetup" Group (their independent website)
Many people are members of this "Meetup" Group; many are members of the original HCSV, whose site you are visiting now; a few are members of both.
Several of our members & friends meet in semi-independent groups closer to their homes. There are groups in San Mateo County (our page for them); South San José (our page for them); Santa Cruz (their independent website).
Public services
We Support
... Camp Quest West ... Camp Quest (national)
... Carry the Vision
... disaster relief (via some national orgs)
Related Websites Here is a page of links to web sites more or less related to Humanism.
(Page contains subcategories: California organizations; other regional organizations; national / international organizations; (printed) magazines; special focus sites including "famous Humanists".)
We humanists do not focus on religious belief; our main concern is with human behavior. Given that, although most of us are of an atheist or agnostic bent, with some Deist, pantheist, and other freethinker stances, subscribers to a theist religion are welcome to visit our Forums. Our members live mainly in San Jose, Silicon Valley, Stanford, San Francisco, Palo Alto. Also see: our calendar, our Sunday Forum, our page on Darwin, the AHA’s Humanist Manifesto, and our family program, all linked from this page.
This website made possible by funds from the
James Hervey Johnson Educational Trust,
.to which we are very grateful. 		Website queries, bug reports: webmaster@humanists.org
Activity updates & info: webmaster@humanists.org   infohcsv@gmail.com
Other queries: infohcsv@gmail.com

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