Campus Groups - Today’s Better Tomorrow

I’ve already dedicated several of my blog posts to starting up new secular/atheist community groups and to the importance of becoming personally involved as an activist for such projects.  Here’s another and it’s darn near a slam-dunk, hands-down winner.

Without a doubt, today’s students are the leaders of tomorrow’s better society - a society that sets the nonsense of religiosity aside to favor secularism and it’s reality-based world view - all ripe with a newer set of youthful trend-setting critical thinkers and oodles of new reason-based decision makers. By extending your helping-hands, donations, and cooperativeness to a local Secular Student Alliance group on a college campus near you, the shape of tomorrow becomes insured. And if you find that the collage campus near you has no ready-made established group, there’s plenty of help available to start one up.  

Look into getting involved right now... It’s important.!

Campus Groups - Today’s Better Tomorrow

Representation..?

With the question of government funded health care once again on the table before Congress, a new poll was conducted by the press, A/P.  What a reasonable thing to do, eh?  The results in - it was found that only 25% (one in four Americans) opposed the current law. So, why consider this issue with an aim to defeat it with a “Kill the Bill” proposal? Have some of our Congress people gone mad? And who are they representing if not the average American?

These questions ought to be tossed around the floor of the House on Wednesday this week and it may be fun to tune in on what’s said and on who said it especially since the recent air surrounding Tucson's disaster has been telling us that hard line party politics must be set aside.  I wonder.

Back to it...

It’s been a long while since I’ve taken time to live my life as I’d like to, but I’m ready to get back to it. This illness and hospital stuff has been no fun at all.  And, that said, let’s talk activism.

If you live in a state with several secular/atheist/agnostic groups already started, have you done anything to get those groups coordinated?  Have you exchanged ideas?  Have you spoken out for yourself and others?  Have you done anything to encourage and develop even more groups?  If so, good for you - do more of it.  If not, “Let’s get on the ball, Buck-o.”  Start networking.

Starting up a new group is easy.  All it takes from you is a little time and perhaps a few bucks.  Start by reaching out to stranded individuals who might fit the bill to join-up in a new group. Use the Internet and sites like Facebook - there are plenty of enthusiastic candidates out there.  Then check out Meetup.com.  Start your new group and see where it leads you.  And don’t assume it’s any harder to do in a nearby neighboring town.  It’s not! Getting new groups off the ground is great fun and it’s very usefully needed activism.

Likewise, creating interaction between groups and group leaders is just as easy... Announce an event - a leaders conference. Try using video conferencing and chat rooms to coordinate your plans, group to group.  Whether you host a big or small meeting right off the bat is up to you.  Do what you can do easily, but do something!  Go for it.

So... do you feel motivated to become a secular activist?  I hope so.