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This month we’re hosting a talk by Fish Stark, the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. Fish’s talk is titled Democracy Not Theocracy: Humanist Resistance to Christian Nationalism.We are facing the most aggressive assault on secular values in a generation — defunding public schools, pushing religion into government, and attacking empathy itself as a weakness and a sin. But the picture isn’t all bleak. Efforts to force the Bible and Ten Commandments into public school classrooms are being defeated in court. The AHA won major federal cases in Florida and Arkansas. The Congressional Freethought Caucus we helped start is now larger than the Freedom Caucus. And across the country, humanists are showing what is possible when we show up for our communities.
Fish will break down the threats the AHA’s legal and policy teams are tracking right now, where the most serious attacks on the First Amendment are coming from, and what humanists can do to fight back and win — in the courts, in Congress, in the culture, and in our communities.
Fish Stark is an organizer, educator, social entrepreneur, and lifelong humanist. Fish has spent his career turning big ideas into bold action in service of belonging, flourishing, and social justice for all people.
This is a hybrid event. Fish will join us in person at the East Brunswick Public Library, Room 3, and via Zoom. Please note the location change. A Q&A session will follow the talk.
The Zoom event requires advance registration. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Zoom with the link to join the meeting.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4s1_3F4UQ2yohNyRQxaj6w#/
This event is free and open to the public. Please feel free to share it with anyone you think would be interested. This event is not sponsored by the East Brunswick Public Library. Everyone is welcome to join us for an early dinner at a local restaurant after the meeting.
More about Fish Stark:
https://americanhumanist.org/team/stark/
American Humanist Association: https://americanhumanist.org/
Learn more about NJHN:
https://njhn.org
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East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center,East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
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