U.S. Rep. McDermott Added to Speakers’ Roster The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Pacific Northwest “Mini-Convention” meets on the weekend of Friday, July 9, and Saturday July 10, at the Red …
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Helen Thomas has been dubbed “the grande dame” of journalism. Helen Thomas has been called “the first woman of journalism” not only because she has been a White House correspondent …
The Freedom From Religion Foundation awarded 15-year-old Honolulu student Kenji Ornellas a $1,000 student activist award in 2002. Kenji was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against his school, McKinley High, …
Taslima Nasrin is living proof of the threat posed to women’s liberty by fundamentalist religion. The Bengali author and physician has been subject to a series of fatwas, or religious …
Julia Sweeney came to Hollywood not as an actor but as an accountant. The oldest in a family of five children raised in Spokane, Washington, she put her interest in …
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Dr. Newdow won the most significant state/church victory of 2002 when a 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in his favor on June 26, 2002, that …
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging not only that Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland be investigated over his apparent use of $450,000 in archdiocese funds as “hush money” to an …
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Emily Lyons, a nurse, survived the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998. After months of recovery, she has dedicated her time to speaking for women’s rights …
Robert Tiernan, an attorney and past president of the Denver chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is a criminal defense lawyer and First Amendment defender. He has brought several …
