{"id":15989,"date":"2025-09-27T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2025-10-14T00:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:56:54","slug":"2025-10-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-10-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanist Watch Party for California Freethought Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"933\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/uucpa.org_2025_10_12_Freethought_Day.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15990\"\/><figcaption>President of Black Nonbelievers, Mandisa Thomas, speaks to the crowd at California Freethought Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>12 noon-5 p.m., October 12, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">Humanists at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto invite you to a Watch Party for California Freethought Day. The day is sponsored in part by the American Humanist Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>California Freethought Day combines the fun and atmosphere of a fair with the education and activism of a conference. It\u2019s a festival of freethought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">Join us to celebrate freedom of speech and thought, civic engagement, enthusiasm for science, social justice, and the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">The live event will be&nbsp;<strong>outdoors<\/strong>&nbsp;at the California State Capitol Building and&nbsp;<strong>livestreamed<\/strong>&nbsp;to UUCPA\u2019s Room 4-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">This 24th year will feature speakers, entertainers, podcasters, authors, awardees, scholarship recipients, and more.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"pl-5 list-disc mb-4\">\n<li><strong>Jonathan Lopez<\/strong>&nbsp;as \u201cHellen Heels\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seth Andrews<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>The Thinking Atheist<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bongo Furies<\/strong>, Frank Zappa Cover Band<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Fish<\/strong>, President of American Atheists<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karma Waltonen<\/strong>, Writer and Atwood Scholar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Corey Wright<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Shiny Happy People Season 2<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Liana Pilar de Leo<\/strong>, Scholarship Winner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haram Doodles<\/strong>, Ex-Muslim Cartoonist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Smith<\/strong>, Host of&nbsp;<em>Serious Inquiries Only<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Erica Lee<\/strong>, Congressional Candidate<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lydia Smith<\/strong>, Podcaster<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andy Swan<\/strong>, as Uncle Sam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">See the full agenda:&nbsp;<a class=\"!text-viridian\" href=\"https:\/\/freethoughtday.org\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">https:\/\/freethoughtday.org\/main\/<\/a><br>We\u2019ll be sure to have pizza, fruit, and cookies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Attend in Person:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto<br>505 East Charleston Road<br>Palo Alto, CA 94306<br>Room 4-Room 5, across the patio from the sanctuary.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uucpa.org\/events\/humanist-watch-party-for-california-freethought-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.uucpa.org\/events\/humanist-watch-party-for-california-freethought-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Subscribe to our events in your Apple Calendar:<br><a href=\"webcal:\/\/p162-caldav.icloud.com\/published\/2\/Mjk3Nzk1MTgyMjk3Nzk1MRBa7aU6zKSIJMfDjhqBP8r3muvKK3GLLCRnZoCneHpXv08CyGJAJRVI5yyh-SVWxGJE9xHfdUs72pmiBNlOBpY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">webcal:\/\/p162-caldav.icloud.com\/published\/2\/Mjk3Nzk1MTgyMjk3Nzk1MRBa7aU6zKSIJMfDjhqBP8r3muvKK3GLLCRnZoCneHpXv08CyGJAJRVI5yyh-SVWxGJE9xHfdUs72pmiBNlOBpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add this event to your Google calendar: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;tmeid=NGg3NG5sbGZpOGQzZnIwY3RxN2d2NGdvdWogaHVtYW5pc3Rjb21tc3ZAbQ&amp;tmsrc=humanistcommsv%40gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener\"><img border=\"0\" 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The day is sponsored in part by the American Humanist Association. California Freethought Day combines the fun and atmosphere of a fair with the education and activism of a conference. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-10-12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Humanist Watch Party for California Freethought Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16000,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}