Sunday, April 29, 2012 The Religious Right’s War on Sex—and Democracy Sex and religion are constantly in the news this election year—typically in ways quite aggravating to humanists. With razor-sharp wit and 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. Marty Klein will analyze the news, describing what he calls America’s War On Sex (www.WarOnSex.com). “The…
Sunday, April 22, 2012 This presentation will contain ideas that longtime Humanist Community member Martin Squibbs has developed from the presentations on “Values and Wealth” and “Money”, that he gave respectively in November 2011 and January 2012. Firstly, he will discuss globalization, and how we might differentiate its meaning into material and human categories in…
Sunday April 15, 2012 Michael Eisenscher will discuss the economic consequences of a militarized foreign policy and economy. He will describe how a decade of militarism and war has contributed to the economic crisis and how continuing to prosecute the “war on terror” will prolong and deepen that crisis, while actually undermining national security. He…
Sunday, April 8, 2012 Peace Building from the Personal to a U.S. Department of Peace Lorraine Norby and Nancy Kivette from the Northern California Campaign for a Department of Peace will discuss their efforts to advance peace in our country.
World Peace Education Project Many diverse ideas related to the goal of world peace and security, free of nuclear weapons, have been proposed in numerous books and articles. But what ideas have national governments already agreed to? And what progress have they made so far? Using information from the United Nations and national governments…
