This was watched and reviewed at the Bengaluru/Bangalore Meeting of Freethinkers and it got me thinking and one of it’s members asked me if I could have look at it. It’s about the Devdasi or the sacred prostitutes of India. I am not against it, it’s not incorrect but it has a few misconceptions that …
Category Archive: Activism
Mar 30 2013
Everest for Charity
A friend of mine is planning to do something amazing. He is planning to climb Mount Everest for charity. Peter Bradley grew up with me and we went to school together so it is with great pride that I snork the hell out of his post. It’s already an amazing thing to attempt and to …
Mar 09 2013
Flintshire County and Discrimination
Flintshire County’s proposed changes to it’s school transport policy are “anti-secular”. It’s as simple as that. The local authority is planning to stop providing free transport for pupils whose admission is not based on faith grounds in faith related schools. The council requires evidence of adherence to the faith of the school (We do have …
Feb 15 2013
Apparently Warsi Failed to Get the Memo
You don’t need a god to be good. We know this, but no one’s told Baroness Warsi that. The problem here is what we define by “practise their faith”. No one has stopped any religious people from doing whatever it is they want to do UNLESS the practise of their faith was against the law. …
Feb 04 2013
Ben Baz
If you haven’t already heard, there is a petition trying to show support for him. Also? Write to Amnesty to get them to try and log this breach of human rights to free expression. Go Sign the Hell out of it.
Jan 23 2013
Hags of Lag – Wish I had Known Sooner
The writers at Skepchick are going to be playing Team Fortress if they meet their $5000 target to donate to the Skeptics for the Protection of Cancer Patients. If you have the funds please send some their way, everything you donate will be used to ask Stan Burzynski to donate an equivalent amount of money …
Jan 14 2013
Stop Another Rizana Nafeek
You already know my take on the treatment of prisoners by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I assume most of you read Maryam Namazie’s blog because she too covered the same topic a bit before me. But I am asking you to go show your voices to try and stop another execution, this time in …
Nov 25 2012
It’s Not All Doom and Gloom – A Litre of Light
What is a plastic bottle to you? Human ingenuity at it’s finest. A man turns trash into light with nothing more than bleach and water.
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