• December Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Video:  Written, directed, and produced by Roderick Bradford Topic: The Truth Seeker: D.M. Bennett D.M. BENNETT (1818-1882) was pronounced guilty for violating the Comstock Law in New York on March 21, 1879. “The trial of Dr. Bennett for sending obscene matter through the mails is one of the most important of the day,” declared The New York Sun....

    $20
  • December Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Subject: Atheism and the Holidays Should we atheists celebrate religious holidays? Should we change them? Should we start our own? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free
  • January Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Speaker:  Barbara Mancini Topic: The Legal Battles Over Assisted Suicide A Pennsylvania county judge has thrown out an assisted suicide case against a 58-year-old nurse named Barbara Mancini, who was accused of homicide last year for allegedly handing her 93-year-old father a bottle of morphine. This case was also featured story on CBS’ 60 minutes. Ms....

    $20
  • January Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: What can the Atheist community do to combat Sexism, Racism, and any other form of discrimination in our nation?  Should we take up these issues as passionately as we fight for the separation of church and state? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek...

    Free
  • Anti-Trump Demonstration

    NYC Atheists whose primary mission is the separation of church and state, will be demonstrating against President Trump’s pledged policies that undermine those protections: §  Pledge to appoint conservative judges on the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal benches. (As The Washington Post reports, there are more than 100 vacancies on the federal bench, §...

  • January Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Julien Musolino Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics at Rutgers University Topic: The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain From Letting Go of...

    $10
  • February Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    SPEAKER: JOANNE SOUZA, Ph.D Director, Biology Online / Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology / STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY SUBJECT: DARWIN: One of Darwin’s unanswered questions: In what ways are humans unique among animals and how did we get that way within the process of evolution by natural selection? DESCRIPTION: Charles Darwin’s major contribution to science...

    $20
  • February Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: Should folks from Islamic nations be denied entry into the US or welcomed? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free
  • February Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: KAREN GARST, Ph.D She recently retired as executive director of the Oregon State Bar. She has a blog at http://www.faithlessfeminist.com and is on Facebook and YouTube...

    $10
  • March Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    SPEAKER: Dave Silverman President, American Atheists SUBJECT: American Atheists' Trump Action - How NYCA and AA Can Work Together The cost of this event is $20 which includes a wonderful all-you-can-eat brunch followed by our guest speaker.

    $20
  • March Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: Scientology, How Can We Oppose This Blight on Our Culture? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free
  • March Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: Rafael O'Halloran Assistant Professor of Radiology, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai TOPIC: Brain Imaging Technology, Neurological and Psychological Diseases A $10 charge for this...

    $10
  • April Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    SPEAKER: Katherine Stewart President, American Atheists SUBJECT: Betsy DeVos and the Republican Plan to Make Charters Available for Religious Schools AUTHOR: The Good News Club - The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children A chilling exposé of the well-funded, highly coordinated effort by Christian Nationalists to use public schools to advance a fundamentalist agenda....

    $20
  • April Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: The Trump Presidency: How Do We Fight Back? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free
  • April Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: Mercer Brugler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology - NYC College of Technology TOPIC: Explore the beautiful and unusual lifeforms that thrive on the sea floor! Cruise with Dr. Brugler as he explores the unusual and beautiful life-forms that thrive on the ocean floor. Dive to ocean depths where no light penetrates and chemicals...

    $10
  • May Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    SUBJECT: Fake News - Repetition Becomes Fact VIDEO: The Brainwashing of My Dad Examines the Influence of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” News Media. How right-wing news programs, talk shows and internet sites turned her once reasonable father into a raging embodiment of intolerance and suspicion. It warns of how generations of Americans have been tricked...

    $20
  • May Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: WHERE DO WE AS ATHEISTS STAND ON THE SUBJECT OF RACE, AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO COUNTER RACISM IN AMERICA Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free
  • May Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: Lee Moore TOPIC: Lee will lead a discussion on how we can make a difference by becoming more effective and successful activists, both individually and as an organization. A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the cost of the venue.

    $10
  • June Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    SUBJECT: CREATION STORIES / MYTHS A creation myth (also called a cosmogonic myth) is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While in popular usage the term myth often refers to false or fanciful stories, formally, it does not imply falsehood. Cultures generally regard their creation myths as true. In the society...

    $20
  • June Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: Climate Change Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free