Activism
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How to Help Vaccinate Everyone!
Right now, we are in the middle of a severe pertussis (whooping cough) epidemic. In Washington state alone, cases over tentupled (which is a word that I made up for up more than times) since last year. In 2011, there were 146 confirmed pertusis cases through the first 20 weeks of the year. This year? 1738. That’s really bad, people.…
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UK Parliament Will Tackle Libel Reform!
Huge news out of the UK today: the Queen has announced that Parliament will finally reform the horrific libel and defamation laws that have caused untold amounts of damage to free speech throughout the state. You may recall that a few years back, Simon Singh was sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association, who, like many who sue for…
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TAM Women Grant Update: Matching Donor
Last week I told you about the Surly Women Grant program that I have started up again so that I can help send more women to The Amazing Meeting in Vegas. THIS week we have a matching donor who has oh-so-kindly offered to help out! For every YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE Surly sold this week or up to a…
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Activist Success! Nigerian Witch-hunter Cancels Tour
Several months ago on SGU, I talked about the horrific case of abuse and murder of a teen in the UK whose relatives thought he was a witch. I mentioned that this was a widespread problem due to Christian evangelists like Helen Ukpabio, an influential Nigerian preacher who commands her flock to drive out and kill the (usually child-) witches…
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Truth as Blasphemy
As mentioned in the quickies a few weeks ago, Sanal Edamaruku, president of the Indian Rationalist Association, revealed that a “weeping” cross was not actually a miracle at all, but in fact caused by a leaky drain. When he refused to retract his findings, the local Catholic Church filed a case against him for blasphemy and he now has arrest…
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Surly Women Grants for TAM 2012
Remember last year when I “put my money where my mouth is” and used my mad-Surly-art-skillz™ to help raise money to send women to TAM? I made a bunch of limited edition TAM9 necklaces and I promised I would use the profits to pay for at least one woman’s membership to last year’s event. With an amazing outpouring of support and…
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Support Women in Secularism
Originally posted on Mad Art Lab. You guys! I have been so busy making stuff! One of the projects I have been working on is a series of limited edition Surly-Ramics necklaces that will be given as gifts to people who make a donation to help support the Women in Secularism conference, May 18th- 20th. The donations will help pay…
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A Quick Guide to Boosting your Immunity!
A couple months ago the Women Thinking Free Foundation elected a few new cohorts to the board including Ashley Hamer (aka Smashley) of Mad Art Lab fame, Katie Hovany, and myself. Since then we have managed to plan a Tdap vaccination clinic at TAM in conjunction with the JREF, so get excited and come say hello to the WTF in…
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