• Buy and present personal dictionaries for Robert Morris School's 3rd graders
• Prepare and serve dinners once a month for Trinity Men's Shelter (December through April)
• Announce at Sunday service and provide copies of letters for 2-3 Amnesty International prisoners of conscience every other month for signing by Society members and attenders
• Conduct a special collection at Thanksgiving for self-help poverty relief in other countries (e.g., Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest and Kiva)

• Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito
• 2007-2008 Annual Report of the EAC

To offer an Ethical Humanist response to social problems,with an area of responsibility that includes community outreach programs and political involvement.

For EAC meetings and other activities, contact chairperson via howard@phillyethics.org or (215) 735-3456.

(Note that our listing a group here does not mean we agree with everything that the listed group says or does.)

• Joined Clean Water Action and the Community Labor Refinery Tracking Committee to collect petition signatures and to canvas door to door in a campaign to have the Sunoco refineries in Philadelphia replace the use of the deadly hydrogen fluoride gas for a safer alternative in their oil refining processes.
• Called for member and attender letters to Congress based the alerts of the Coalition for Human Concerns on pending Congressional actions to cut social spending from the federal budget.
• Using research conducted, and statements made by, the Union for Reform Judaism, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, drafted a letter to Senator Arlen Specter, Chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opposing the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
• Called for member and attender actions as suggested in the monthly American Ethical Union's monthly Ethical Action Report for many actions during the past year. (Click here for a listing of ethical actions of the American Ethical Union, our national organization.)
• Joined as an organization with United for Peace and Justice in several anti Iraq war demonstrations in Philadelphia and Washington DC.
• Contacted Philadelphia area religious leaders, encouraging them to speak to their congregations about taking a stand against the death penalty and to join a clergy group that will promote ending the death penalty in Pennsylvania, in support of Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
• Conducted with the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the charter establishing the United Nations and a forum on the International Criminal Court.
• Demonstrated with Scouting for All at Boy Scout conference at Philadelphia Constitutional Center.
• Contacted Philadelphia area religious leaders, encouraging them to speak to their congregations about taking a stand against the death penalty and to join a clergy group that will promote ending the death penalty in Pennsylvania, in support of Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty

* Some Ethical Actions encourage members to write or call their elected representatives. Don't know your Congressman's address or phone number? Here's a handy source: visit People for the American Way and type your address into the "Find My Elected Officials" column on the right of the page.