Monthly BYS Meeting with Rock-Star atheist Margaret Downey

Note: Location Change!! We are having this event at our house, 9782 Santiago Blvd, Villa Park, 92867. We will be having dinner with Margaret at Rockwell's, 17853 Santiago Blvd Villa Park, at 5:00pm and returning the restaurant after the meeting. Please email me with an RSVP if you are joining us for dinner at bruce@backyardskeptics.com. No dinner will be served at our house, but you may bring as much beer or wine as you like!

This month we are excited to have Margaret Downey come visit us from Philadelphia . She is a champion of atheist's rights and speaks at major conventions all around the country. Don't miss this meeting. donation requested is $5 or more. (This would be a good time to pay your voluntary $20 bi-annual membership to BYS - all profits go to our conference in May)

Margaret Downey: "Exploring the Freethought Trail."

Margaret Downey has traveled the Freethought Trail in New York as tour guide and activist. She brings her knowledge of the area and her love of freethought history to us as a presenter on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. If you consider yourself a freethinker, don't miss her presentation and comprehensive slide show as Margaret highlights important people and historical events that shaped the freethought movement in the nineteenth-century.

Margaret has portrayed Eva Ingersoll and has participated in various Women's Suffrage events. She will share more than information. She will inspire you to create your own freethought history in the here and the now.
Margaret

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Margaret Downey founded the Freethought Society (FS) and the Anti-Discrimination Support Network (ADSN) in 1993. In 1994 Margaret founded the Thomas Paine Memorial Committee.

She has been published in two books, Parenting Beyond Belief and Voices of Disbelief.

Margaret has represented the interest of the nontheist community (since 1995) at several United Nations conferences.

She is a past board member of the American Humanist Association, The Humanist Institute and the Thomas Paine National Historical Association. She is a current board member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Scouting For All and is a member of the Advisory Board Member of the Robert Green Ingersoll Museum.

In the year 2002, Margaret became the first “Secular Humanist Celebrant” in Pennsylvania.

Margaret created the Richard Dawkins Award in 2003. Margaret served as president of the Atheist Alliance International for two years.

In 2007, Margaret designed the Tree of Knowledge. Media Training Worldwide has endorsed Margaret to conduct media training for the nontheist community.

Margaret has been a guest on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation and Radio Times. Television appearances include features on local news stations as well as ABC’s Nightline, PBS and Fox News.

Although we will be streaming this event at Backyardskeptics.com, please try and attend in person.