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Sunday Platforms
Weekly Platform meetings are held at 11 a.m. September through May. Our
Platforms are free and open to the public. A coffee hour follows for
discussion and conversation. We have Ethics for Children classes starting each
Sunday morning at 10:45AM; child care provided for children to seven
years. Free parking is available with a permit you can get inside the
Society's office. Classical piano interludes are performed by Katarzyna ("Kasia") Marzec-Salwinski.
Speaker: Richard L. Kiniry, Leader,
Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia
Now that the economy is contracting
due to the financial crisis it is easy to
point to past policy mistakes, but as we
contract our own lifestyles the bigger
question becomes the basic justice
of our economic system. Forgetting
historic economic theory for now, what
does the Ethical Humanist approach
offer as a guide to future economic
actions?
Speaker: Bob Kay, Retired Psychiatrist and Associate of EHSOP
Nature has lessons to teach us. Almost
all young chimpanzees become, in their
own sweet time, well-integrated adult
chimpanzees, given need satisfaction,
limit-setting, and demonstrations of
adult behavior. Every human child has
unique strengths, weaknesses, interests,
experiences and rates of development.
The concept of “learning disability”
is a humiliating artifact of testing,
measurement, coercion and arbitrary
expectations.
Speaker: Daniel Heyman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Swarthmore College
The photos taken by American
perpetrators of torture, our primary
visual resource to understand the torture
that took place at Abu Ghraib, revictimize
those wrongly detained and
abused each time they are reproduced.
Heyman will discuss the paintings and
prints he has made of many of these
Iraqis in face to face interviews, giving
each victim a chance to own his story in
his own words and reclaim his human
dignity.
The Society’s annual celebration of
the bounty of life. As we share a
Thanksgiving meal produced by the
members, we celebrate harvest time
with song, poetry and reflection. We
both honor the bounty of the earth and
remember the unequal distribution of
that bounty in our human world. We
will have a special collection for Kiva.
Speaker: Speaker: Lori Lipman Brown,
Director of the Secular Coalition for
America
Brown will focus on funneling
public funds into religious education
and churches; easing rules against
employment discrimination based
on religion with federal funds; using
earmarks to fund constitutionally
suspect projects, Faith-based initiatives
and charitable choice language in
Federal programs.
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