40 Days for Life Escort Info

This year, the 40 Days for Life Campaign runs from Wednesday, Sept. 23rd to November 1st.

If you’re interested in helping out at the Red River Women’s clinic by escorting people into and out of the clinic, there’s a PDF attached with a bunch more information.

I don’t see this as a pro-life/pro-choice issue, but rather as a chance to help stop people from being harassed during a vulnerable time.

All that it involves is going to a brief training session beforehand and then showing up on however many Wednesdays you want, wearing a sweet vest, and walking people through the protesters.

Hope to see you there.

Adam

Escort Plea 2009 (PDF)

Resources for new members

Welcome!

The best way to stay up to date on upcoming events is to join the Facebook group or check back here often.

We’ll be meeting weekly starting  on Thursday, September 3rd (time, place TBD).  The typical format for these meetings is either a 30-60 minute talk followed by time for discussion, a movie night, or some kind of social gathering.  If you’re interested in presenting at a meeting, or have a suggestion for someone that you think would be interested, please let me know (isaakad@mnstate.edu).

To be clear, everyone is welcome.  There’s not, in any sense, a particular worldview required to come to CFA events—and bring friends!

Election Results

With the end of the Spring semester, the Campus Freethought Alliance held its annual officer elections.  The results are in, and we welcome Adam Isaak as president, Danielle Jones as vice-president, Susan Bury as secretary, and Tracie Kennedy as treasurer. Congratulations to the MSUM CFA’s newly-elected leaders!

Meeting Notes

Last night’s meeting was great.

Somewhere around 30-40 people showed up–including a lot of new people. Awesome.

After the movie 15ish people stuck around for some further discussion which gave members a chance to meet some of the new attendees.

More info on some of the things discussed:

Richard Dawkins is giving a talk called “The Purpose of Purpose” in Minneapolis on March 4th. It’s at 7:00 pm, $8 for students, and $15 for non-students. There’s a more info here. After the talk, PZ Myers is hosting a a pub night open to students.

Member List Form

Interested in the group, want to be updated on upcoming events, or have some ideas?

You really ought to visit THIS PAGE.

Or, email one of us (click the Contact Us tab).

News

Fellow freethinkers,


This upcoming year should prove to be an exciting one for us.  We have a lot of new things planned, that are, basically, going to be awesome.

First, we’re switching up the meetings a bit.  We’re going to have our usual meetings at the union every other week, Thursdays, at 8:00 pm.  Our plan is for these to be similar to last semester, but with a slightly different format.  We’re going to try to often bring in speakers; students, teachers, or anyone else interested.  The flexible format for these meetings would be something like: listen to the speaker for 30-60 minutes, then follow up with open discussion for up to another hour.  If you, or a group you’re part of would be interested in talking about something with our group, please contact us.  The topics can be very wide ranging.  Some examples would be anything involving religion, science, the paranormal, philosophy, or ethics.

Outside of these twice monthly meetings, we’re going to do a monthly dinner and a movie night, and have special events off and on throughout the semester.

The dinner/movie night is going to be on the second Sunday of every month, and the plan is to watch a movie (we’re open to location suggestions) and either order food, or all go out and eat after the movie to hang out and discuss it.  Some potential movies are Jesus Camp, The Atheism Tapes, The Most Hated Family In America, and Richard Dawkins’ BBC specials (The Root of All Evil, The Enemies of Reason); we’re open to and hoping for suggestions here, as well.

I’d like to stress that our group is open to everyone.  We’re looking forward to collaborating with some religious groups on campus; as we’ve seen with our past meetings, a diversity of world views does nothing but enrich the atmosphere.

Last, we’re trying to compile a list of people interested in being updated with CFA info or upcoming events, so, if you feel like it, fill out some info at the following link.  If you have any ideas, interest in speaking to the group, any other suggestions, or would be willing to help out in some way, feel free to mention that on the form.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=py3BWjgI3Uvh1pWQYUFi3Cw


I, and the rest of the CFA board, look forward to seeing you all next semester.

Best,
Adam Isaak, Officer (isaakad at mnstate.edu)


Other contact info:

Tarver Mathison, Chair (mathista at mnstate.edu)
Liz Johanson, Vice-Chair (johansel at mnstate.edu)
Heath Butrum, Officer (butrumhe at mnstate.edu)
Danielle Jones, Officer (jonesda at mnstate.edu)
Tony Mansourian, Officer