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11 a.m., June 16, 2024

This Sunday we will watch and discuss a 1-hour video, Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Unleash Annihilation on Religion for an Hour! In the almost 30 interview excerpts, Neil deGrasse Tyson Answers questions and gives his view of religion, atheism and spirituality. He explains away many of the ideas and philosophies that come up when one deals with the existence, or non-existence of God. This video can be stopped at any point to allow comments.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a well-known American astrophysicist, author, lecturer, and science communicator. He has held numerous positions at institutions including University of Maryland, Princeton University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Hayden Planetarium. Neil is possibly best known as the host of the Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey.

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This Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040. Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation for lunch.

If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. COVID protocols will be followed. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.

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11 a.m., June 9, 2024

This Sunday, Paul George will join us in Los Altos to open the session and to answer any questions afterward. Mr. George, the Executive Director of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, will introduce a 37-minute video in which he describes the 2025 Project.

Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks, that would reshape the federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 presidential election. It relies on the unitary executive theory, a disputed interpretation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution that asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch upon inauguration. The project is a how-to program that would change the nature of our democracy almost overnight. It would allow the president replace federal employees with project loyalists and institute a “conservative” policy in every department of the federal government.

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center has long been regarded as the leading grassroots activist organization on the San Francisco Peninsula, due in large part to the leadership of Paul George. Paul started work at PPJC in April 1989.

You can watch this video at https://youtu.be/-Ty8mm1Yel0.

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This Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists in the Orchard Room at the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos, CA 94022. (On the first and third Sunday of the month, you can continue to attend our forum at the Mountain View Senior Center.)

Since we can’t bring food into the library, let’s plan on meeting at the small park with picnic tables just adjacent to the library. We did this last time, and it worked out fine.

We could either bring our sandwiches or other lunch edibles or take orders and have folks order their own sandwiches or other edibles and send someone out to pick them up. This would allow us to meet right after the meeting, stay for a bit and connect.

If you can join us in person, please email vp@humanists.org to help us make sure we have room for you. COVID protocols will be followed. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom.

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Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712
Passcode: 250634

You can also call any of the following phone numbers and then enter the above Meeting ID and the Passcode in order to join the meeting by phone.
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
You can find international phone numbers to call here.

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