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Atheist Day: An Atheist Coming Out Day
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UK: Successful 1st International Atheist Day !
28 March, by siawi3March 23rd 2019, International Atheist Day, was observed for the first time across the world, providing a space for non believers to come out in public, defend freethought and show solidarity with those who risk their lives and freedom because they are atheists.
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The Secular Therapy Project
28 March, by siawi3The Secular Therapy Project is a program of Recovering From Religion. Therapists from the STP do not try to preach to or convert clients
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France : La gauche contre les Lumières
28 mars, par siawi3Une partie de la gauche est-elle dès lors en train de se renier elle-même ? Depuis plusieurs années déjà s’élèvent des critiques d’une radicalité inouïe contre le cœur même de l’héritage des Lumières : le rationalisme, le progressisme, l’universalisme. Ces critiques se revendiquent de l’émancipation des dominés, marqueur traditionnel des différents courants de gauche.
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UK: Apostasy, Shunning and Survival Panel Discussion
28 March, by siawi3A discussion about parenthood, tradition, religion, sex, and independence.
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France : Le confinement obligatoire pendant l’épidémie de coronavirus a entraîné une hausse des violences conjugales.
27 mars, par siawi3Interrogé sur France 2, le ministre de l’Intérieur a relevé que le confinement mis en place depuis le 17 mars pour endiguer l’épidémie de coronavirus avait eu pour conséquence une augmentation des violences conjugales. “En zone gendarmerie”, ces violences ont augmenté de “32% en une semaine”, a-t-il dit, et dans la zone de la préfecture de police de Paris, elles ont été en hausse de “36% en une semaine”. Face à la hausse des violences faites aux femmes pendant le confinement, un dispositif spécial sera mis en place dans les pharmacies.
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Algérie : Halte à la répression des militant.e.s du Hirak !
27 mars, par siawi3Nous avons sans cesse demandé la libération des détenu.e.s d’opinion et du Hirak. De plus, en cette période d’épidémie, leur détention arbitraire met leur vie en danger.
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USA: Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety
27 March, by siawi3As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the “Chinese virus,” many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of what could come next. For American-born Asians, there is a sudden sense of being watched that is unsettling
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USA: Climbing the Deadly Curves of COVID-19 and Capitalism
27 March, by siawi3An unmanaged economic decline triggered by a pandemic is of course a terrible means of reining in greenhouse warming. Many millions of low-income and marginalized Americans will endure horrendous suffering and hardship in the coming months. This sudden, dramatic economic retreat is illustrating on a world scale the well-known, tight link between nations’ or regions’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and their greenhouse emissions. They rise and fall together.*
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USA: Arrest the virus, free the prisoners!
27 March, by siawi3In the U.S., there are 2.3 million human beings in state, federal, and county jails and more than 52,000 in immigrant detainment camps. We cannot allow the capitalist ruling class to turn a blind eye to the plight of the incarcerated population—not in general, nor in the particular circumstance of the global pandemic of Covid-19.
