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Meetings

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2002-09-06: Phil LaZier, Unanswered Questions About 9/11
2002-09-29: Dr. Michael Newdow, The Establishment Clause
2002-10-04: Pete Martineau, Electoral Reform
2002-10-20: Dramatic Reading: The Face of Violence, by Jacob Bronowski
2002-11-08: Dr. Joseph Palermo, Presidential War Powers
2002-11-17: Mynga Futrell, Language Lessons for Humans
2002-12-06: Dr. Laurens Gunnarsen, Teaching Genius: Recognizing and Training Mathematical Prodigies
2002-12-22: Winter Solstice Celebration and Potluck
2003-01-03: Wayne Luney, How the Scots Invented the Modern World
2003-01-19: Eddie Tabash, Electing Atheists to Public Office
2003-02-15: Darwin Day Meeting
2003-02-23: Esther Franklin, Thomas Jefferson: Slaves and Culture
2003-03-07: Anna Andrews (Moderator), Bring a Question
2003-03-23: Katherine Thomson, Advocacy and the U.N.
2003-04-04: Dr. Ayad Al-Qazzaz, Perspectives on Iraq
2003-04-27: Ed Doerr, Will Church-State Separation Survive the Reign of George The Second?
2003-04-27: Transcript of Ed Doerr's Speech
2003-05-02: Charlie Watters, Transformation in Russia in the Past Ten Years
2003-05-18: Dr. Bahman (Buzz) Fozouni, The Motivational Factors Driving U.S. Foreign Policy
2003-06-06: Taner Edis, The Ghost in the Universe
2003-06-22: Summer Solstice Potluck (with photographs)
2003-09-05: Mynga Futrell & Paul Geisert, Are We Brights?
2003-09-21: Wayne Luney (moderator), Panel Discussion on California Recall Election
2003-10-03: Walter Pontynen & Karen Scott, Roger Williams: Freedom's Forgotten Hero
2003-10-19: Barry Pateman, The Emma Goldman Papers
2003-11-07: Dr. Selmer Wathney, Forensic Psychology in the California Youth Authority
2003-11-23: Rosemary Fuller and Joy Fisher, The United States Supreme Court
2003-12-05: Frank Russell, MFT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy
2003-12-21: Winter Solstice Potluck
2004-01-09: Wayne Luney, Irene Hickman: Sacramento County's Colorful and Controversial Assessor
2004-01-18: Book Reviews
2004-02-07: Darwin Day Meeting
2004-02-22: State of the Assisted Suicide Movement
2004-03-05: Samantha Hens, Evolution and the Nature of Science: Challenges in Teaching
2004-03-21: Carolyn Rich Curtis and Craig Johnson, Good and Bad Marriages
2004-04-02: Panel Discussion: A Humanist Way of Judging Our Economy
2004-04-18: Hank and Cleo Kocol, The Lewis and Clark Expedition
2004-05-23: Esther Franklin and Pete Holmquist, The Poet and the Journalist: Who has had the lasting influence?
2004-06-04: Herb Silverman, The Candidate Without a Prayer
2004-06-20: Summer Solstice Potluck (with photographs)
2004-09-03: Open Forum on Being a Humanist
2004-09-19: Report, by attendees, on the 2004 AHA Conference
2004-10-01: Dr. Stephen Kraus, The Real Science of Success
2004-10-10: Freethought Day (with photographs)
2004-10-17: Dr. Peter Lindert, Bush vs. Kerry on Economic Issues
2004-11-05: Dr. Ayad Al-Qazzaz, Perspectives on Iraq
2004-11-21: Book Reviews
2004-12-03: Dr. Belinda Martineau, Genetically Modified Organisms
2004-12-19: Winter Solstice Potluck
2005-01-07: Mark Dempsey, The Sacramento Regional Planning Process
2005-01-23: Roberta Chevrette, Songs and Poetry
2005-02-12: Darwin Day, Dr. Leah Krubitzer, How Evolution Built a Brain
2005-02-20: Dr. Laurens Gunnarsen, Mathematical Genius
2005-03-04: Alice Jacobs, Use it or lose it: Brain Exercise for Wellness
2005-03-20: Esther Franklin and Patricia Pratt, Libya
2005-04-01: Phil and Karla LaZier, Peak Oil
2005-04-17: Margaret Wilcox: Equality in Marriage
2005-05-22: Anatole Lubovich: A Program of his Poetry and his Music
2005-06-03: Report on the 2005 AHA Conference
2005-06-10: Movie Night: Heart of the Beholder
2005-06-26: Summer Solstice Potluck (with photographs)
2005-09-02: Mel Lipman, The Future of Humanism
2005-09-18: Carolyn Rich Curtis, Good and Bad Marriages (Part 2)
2005-10-09: Freethought Day (with photographs)
2005-10-23: Book Reviews
2005-11-04: Mike Newdow, Equality (not Toleration)
2005-11-20: Discussion: What's Eating You?
2005-12-02: Phil LaZier, Astronomy
2005-12-18: Winter Solstice Potluck
2006-01-06: Karl Mogel, Antibodies for Irrationality: Making Sense of the Senseless
2006-01-22: Concentric Circles
2006-02-03: Dan Barker
2006-02-12: Darwin Day, Nicholas Matzke, The Evolutionary Origins of Intelligent Design
2006-02-19: Laurens Gunnarsen, What is Creativity, Anyway?
2006-03-03: Ken Helms, Differences in Cognitive Styles
2006-03-19: Chris Lindstrom, Camp Quest West
2006-04-07: Panel Discussion: The Roots of Violence
2006-04-23: Jim French and Jeremy Klein, General Semantics
2006-05-05: Joseph Atwill, The Roman Invention of Christianity
2006-05-21: Prof. Emanuel Gale, The Collapsing Health Care System: A Crisis in Values
2006-06-02: Don Havis, Thomas Paine: Freethinker Extraordinaire
2006-09-01: Beverly Church and Mynga Futrell, Report on 2006 AHA Conference
2006-09-17: Leigh Johnsen, Early American Origins of Church/State Separation
2006-10-08: Freethought Day
2006-10-22: Mynga Futrell and Paul Geisert, From Iceland to Italy: Sampling Secularist Sentiments
2006-11-03: Panel Discussion, The System is Broken
2006-11-19: General Discussion, American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
2006-12-01: Dr. Ada Roscoe, The Shadow of Fidel Castro
2006-12-23: HumanLight Event
2007-01-05: Joy Fisher, The Military Commissions Act of 2006
2007-01-21: Dr. Donald Hayden, Robert Ingersoll
2007-02-02: Discussion, Juvenile Justice
2007-02-18: Marilyn Demas, Early African American History in Sacramento
2007-03-02: Brian Jones, The Case for Libertarian Humanism
2007-03-18: William Dorman, American Foreign Policy
2007-04-06: Bill Potts, A Humanist Journey
2007-04-22: Frank Scott, The Greatest Threat
2007-05-04: Anna Andrews, General Discussion
2007-05-20: Mary Wind, What It Will Take For Peace To Triumph
2007-06-01: Panel Discussion, Canada
2007-09-07: Marc Adams, The Preacher's Son
2007-09-23: Report on the 2007 AHA Conference
2007-10-21: Pete Martineau and Chuck O'Neil, Proportional Representation and Scotland's Use of Ranked Voting
2007-11-02: Wayne Luney, Herbert Spencer
2007-11-18: Hank Kocol, The Manhattan Project
2007-12-07: Brigitte Jaensch, Muslims in America after 9/11
2008-01-04: Book Reviews (cancelled because of power failure)
2008-02-01: Book Reviews
2008-02-17: Panel Discussion on Religion, Morality and Humanist Ethics
2008-03-07: Susan Sackett, Humanism in Star Trek
2008-03-23: Flying Spaghetti Monster Party
2008-04-04: Hugh Gibbons, The Current Financial Crisis
2008-04-20: Jerry Houseman, The Challenges Facing Public Education
2008-05-02: Jack and Lois Trimpey, Rational Reovery
2008-05-18: Yana Horton, The Human Disposition for Religiosity
2008-06-06: Dr. Bahman “Buzz” Fozouni, The Situation in Iran
2008-09-05: Beverly Church and Mynga Futrell, Educating New Generations of Humanists
2008-09-21: Gretchen Bender, Proposition 8
2008-10-03: General Discussion, Election Issues
2008-10-19: Book Reviews
2008-11-07: Discussion: Election Retrospective
2008-11-23: Bob Schmidt, Molly Ivins
2008-12-05: It's Your Turn: Help Us Plan Our 2009 Meetings
2009-01-02: The Four Horsemen, Episode 1, Hour 1
2009-01-18: Dr. Peter Lindert, The Economic Meltdown
2009-02-22: The Four Horsemen, Episode 1, Hour 2
2009-03-06: Darwin Day Video
2009-03-22: Arthur Jackson, How to Live the Good Life
2009-04-03: A Brief History of Disbelief, Episode 1: Shadows of Doubt
2009-04-19: Discussion, The First Hundred Days
2009-05-01: A Brief History of Disbelief, Episode 2: Noughts and Crosses
2009-05-17: Cleo Kocol, Fitzhugh’s Waman
2009-06-05: A Brief History of Disbelief, Episode 3: The Final Hour
2009-09-04: Pat Naylor, Thomas Paine
2009-09-20: Patricia Daugherty: Palestine, Witness to Occupation
2009-10-02: Moderated Discussion
2009-10-18: Fred Edwords, Sailing on the Rising Tide of Humanism
2009-11-06: Bob Schmidt, My Life as a Journalist
2009-11-22: Dr. Roger Kotila, Earth Federation is Better for Humanity than the United Nations
2009-12-04: Steve Thoreson, From Fakery to Funny Underwear: The Length and Breadth of Mormonism
2010-01-08: Ted Cox, What I Learned at Straight Camp
2010-01-24: Esther Franklin and Pete Holmquist, Cruising with Katrina and Co.
2010-02-21: Morrie Turner, Black History Month Special
2010-03-05: Book Reviews
2010-03-21: An Hour of Music and Conversation with Buffy Sainte-Marie
2010-04-18: Dr. Paul Larudee, Flight from a Ship with a Load of medicines and Foods
2010-05-07: Carlin Naify, What’s New at the Crocker Art Museum
2010-05-23: Tad Daley, Apocalypse Never: The Global Governance Architecture of a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
2010-09-03: Michael Moore, July 5, 2010 Democracy Now Interview: His Life, His Films and His Activism
2010-09-19: Richard Carrier, PhD, The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
2010-10-01: Book Reviews
2010-10-17: Cleo Kocol, Cleopatra: Immortal Queen
2010-11-05: Dr. Tom Kando, The Global Shift to the Right: A European's Perspective
2010-11-21: Sally Berlant and Ellen Schwartz: Jane Addams
2010-12-03: Raj Munir, Islam, God and the New Enlightenment
2011-01-16: Tom Swift, Tommy Douglas: The Greatest Canadian
2011-02-20: Pete Martineau, Proportional Representation and Instant Runoff Voting: An Update
2011-03-20: Glenn Branch, The History and Prospects of Creationism
2011-04-17: Dr. Ayad Al-Qazzaz, The Causes and Implications of the Recent Events in Egypt
2011-05-15: Roy Sablosky, The Myth of Christian Charity
2011-06-19: Heather Minton and Tyson Redhouse, “And Justice for All?” An LGBTQ Perspective
2011-09-18: Raquel Simental, Attacks on Choice and Planned Parenthood
2011-10-16: Don Knutson, The Wonder of Fair-Trade Chocolate
2011-11-20: Cleo Kocol, China 1986 and The Good Foreigner
2012-01-15: Kevin Carter, Occupy: Discovery and Recovery
2012-01-18: Upcoming Meetings

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Human Interest

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