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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.

November 2, 2008
Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
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?
November 9, 2008
I Never Met a Chimpanzee with a Learning Disability?
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.
November 16, 2008
Lifting the Hoods: Real Victims or Icons? Art, Torture, and the Human Cost of Abuse at Abu Ghraib
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.
November 23, 2008
Humanist Thanksgiving
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.
November 30, 2008
Follow the Money
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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