FREETHINKERS NEW YORK
Freethinking-Activist-Nonbelieving New Yorkers (Fanny)
31 Jane Street (Box 10-D), New York, NY 10014
(212) 366-6481 wasm@nyc.rr.com
http://wasm.us/fanny.html
Founder-Directors (1998)
Dennis Middlebrooks, Warren
Allen Smith
Chairpersons
Janet Asimov, Robert Delford
Brown, Tatyana Mamonova, Dennis Middlebrooks,
Taslima Nasrin, Warren Allen Smith, Eric
Walther
Other Chairpersons
Mick Lambe, founder of
PARIAH - People Against Racism In Aboriginal Homelands -
Northern Territory -
Australia
Deceased:
Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov;
Sir Arthur C. Clarke; painter Paul Cadmus ; Encyclopedia of Philosophy editor
Paul Edwards; sexologist Albert Ellis; M*A*S*H
originator and one of "the Hollywood Ten" Ring Lardner Jr.;
author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; business education professor
Herbert Tonne ; sculptor of "The Humanist" Anita
Weschler;
atheist activist Irving
Yablon
Membership is open to those who have completed an individual activist
project and been approved
by the founder-directors
Dues: None
Purpose: FANNY acts as liaison to humanistic groups that cater to the
interests of fellow agnostics, atheists,
secularists, humanists, philosophic naturalists, and freethinkers
LATE NEWS:
Dennis
Middlebrooks and Warren Allen
Smith were televised on 3 July 2006 by Terri Murray, a London-based
interviewer from Blacksheep DV Productions. The interview took
place - imagine! - in Central Park's Sheep Meadow. Although
basically about whether or not religion should play any role in
government, the questions posed covered a wide gamut.
Dennis
Middlebrooks has a
letter in the June 2006 issue of North
and South, the the magazine of the Civil War Society.
In this letter, which was in response to a letter
from some benighted wretch in Boston who was not pleased with his
previous missives, Middlebrooks lambasts Christianity, slavery, the
Bible, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and pro-Confederate historians
Clifford Dowdey and James Robertson, the latter of whom is a highly
regarded historian but who is also a fundamentalist Christian minister
who gives speeches before Civil War groups in which he praises Lee and
Jackson, both slaveowners, as "Christian warriors."
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
To counter efforts
aimed at restricting our freedom, we freely are publishing the
following:
Have you seen the controversial and censored episode of South Park
- in which Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet! Scientology
is skewered much as
Mark Twain with Voltaire-like wit
satirized the Mormon bible ("an insipid mess of inspiraton. It is
chloroform in print.")
Have you seen the controversial Danish
cartoons? Here they are, uncensored.
When the West Bengal state in India and the country of Bangladesh did
not allow Taslima Nasrin's books to be printed and read, we posted the
two books in Bengali for
free on the web at