Sunday Brunch and Speaker

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

SUBJECT: MY JOURNEY OF A BANGLADESHI WOMEN FROM ISLAM TO ATHEISM ZERIN FIROZE is an outspoken Ex-Muslim, atheist, feminist and human right activist. Due to her advocacy for secular, LGBT...

SUBJECT: SECULAR MUSIC PERFORMER: SHELLEY SEGAL, SINGER AND SONGWRITER FROM AUSTRALIA The cost of this event is $20 which includes a wonderful all-you-can-eat brunch followed by our guest speaker.

SPEAKER: JIM HELTON – AMERICAN ATHEISTS: NATIONAL FIELD ORGANIZER Jim G Helton is the National Field Organizer for American Atheists. After attending the Reason Rally, he co-founded the Tri-State Freethinkers...

TOPIC: Recovering From Religion SPEAKER: Gayle Jordan - Executive Director, Recovering From Religion Doubt Your Beliefs? Have Questions About Changing Or Leaving Your Faith? You Are Not Alone, And We...

SPEAKER: SUSANA MARINEZ CONDE Susana Martinez-Conde is a neuroscientist and science writer. She is a professor of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology & pharmacology at the State University of New York,...

SPEAKER: MIKE REISS Mike Reiss has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award during his twenty-eight years writing for “The Simpsons”. He ran the show in Season 4, which Entertainment...

SUBJECT: Does Religion Have the Right to Deprive a Child of a Basic  Education? - My Fight Against the Hasidic Yeshivas SPEAKER: Naftuli Moster, Executive Director of Young Advocates for Fair Education You’ve heard the rumors, read the articles in the newspapers and probably wondered:  Could this be true? Is it possible that a religious sect would...

SUBJECT: It Felt Like Rape: A Hasidic Woman's Journey Out of an Arranged Marriage – and the Closet SPEAKER: CHAVIE WEISBERGER Chavie Weisberger married a man she’d barely met and suffered for years until she realized she was a lesbian. But her greatest battle was yet to come. Chavie Weisberger, Community Engagement Coordinator Chavie is...

SUBJECT: Children's Victim Act SPEAKER: Robert Hoatson, Ex-priest advocate to extend statute of limitations THE PRIMARY LEGISLATION OPPONENTS ARE: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE HASDIC / ORTHORDOX JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. THEY OPPOSE THE EXTENSION OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE CLAIMS BEYOND ONE’S, 23RD  YEAR; BECAUSE IT WOULD BANKRUPT THEM....

SUBJECT: Board of Directors Working Meeting IF YOU ARE A PAID (2018) NYC ATHEISTS MEMBER;  YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND. FOR NYC ATHEISTS TO CONTINUE AND TO BE SUCCESSFUL, WE NEED: 1)  PAID MEMBERSHIP, 2) ATTEND EVENTS / MEETING AND 3) SERVE (VOLUNTEER) 1) OBJECTIVE OF MEETING GET MEMBERS TO BECOME BOARD MEMBERS (BASIC REQUIREMENT...

SUBJECT: YOU'RE FIRED ATHEIST!!! WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS? SPEAKER: DARYL COCHRANE, Director of the Manhattan Community Service Center & LGBTQ Communities Lead Advisor with the Community Relations Bureau of the New York City Commission on Human Rights The cost of this event is $25 which includes a wonderful all-you-can-eat brunch followed by our guest speaker.

SPEAKER: RICKY SILVER TOPIC: EMPIRE STATE INDIVISIBLE IN ACTION, INCREASING CONSTITUENT ENGAGEMENT AND AWARENESS OF THEIR DEMOCRATIC POWER DEFENDING NEW YORK AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, AND THOSE IN OUR STATE GOVERNMENT THAT ENABLE ITS HARMFUL POLICIES. This event is free but guests are expected to purchase frood or drink from the menu to compensate Stone Creek...

SPEAKER:Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D. TOPIC: HUMAN ERRORS: A PANORAMA OF OUR GLITCHES, FROM POINTLESS BONES TO BROKEN GENES Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D. is Professor of Biology at John Jay College of the City University of New York He also blogs for Psychology Today and maintains The Human Evolution Blog. He is the author of two popular...

SPEAKER:Nick Fish / NEW American Atheists President TOPIC: Meet the new AA President / AA agenda / AA April National Convention Nick Fish is a civil rights and civil liberties activist with more than a decade of fundraising and grassroots organizing experience with many of the nation’s most prominent political organizations and progressive non-profits. A native...