About us
This group is operated by the Tri-City Freethinkers (July 26, 2011). [IRS ID#31669]
The Tri-City Freethinkers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community outreach organization serving the religion-free population of the Tri-Cities metropolitan area (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland, and West Richland) by bringing nonreligious community members together for support, education, and advocacy. We sponsor a range of social and educational events throughout the year including guest speakers from both the national secular movement and from our local/regional area. We provide opportunities for our members to engage with the broader community and elected officials and perform volunteer work in partnership with other local organizations.
We are a diverse group consisting of atheists, agnostics, skeptics, heathens, secular humanists, and pantheists; men and women; young, old, and in between; straight and LGBT; all ethnic and cultural heritages; highly educated to minimally educated; affluent and not; and people from all religious backgrounds and all ends of the political spectrum.
Affiliated with American Atheists and a member of the Mid-Columbia Coalition of Reason, the Tri-City Freethinkers offers a welcoming environment for nontheistic residents seeking relief from the religiosity of southeastern Washington.
We encourage you to follow our public page on Facebook, join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter @TCFreethinker, and join us at one of our meetings or events.
To get an idea of what we do, check out this list of past events we've hosted or participated in.
You may be interested in these local satellite groups:
Tri-Cities Drinking Skeptically on Meetup and Facebook
Reasonable Doubt: A Secular Book Club
Young Freethinkers of the Tri-Cities
Tri-City Raising Freethinkers on Meetup and Facebook
Recovering from Religion: Tri-Cities Chapter
Upcoming events
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Critical Views - watching something
Round Table Pizza, 1769 Leslie Road, Richland, WA, US#### A fascinating historical account
This documentary emphasizes the rising anxiety among the mission controllers, astronauts, and their families, NASA and the US government, and eventually the whole world via the news media - at least, for those with journalists at the scene.
The personal reactions/body languages and team challenges of specialists working under extreme stress are fascinating to observe - plenty of thought-provoking content here for training courses, supplementing the usual Tom Hanks account focusing on the CO2 scrubber.
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There is loads of genuine Apollo footage (albeit supplemented by some fill-in content from other missions) plus contemporaneous TV coverage and home videos. If the evolving crisis doesn't spark your imagination, the remarkable scenes of a distant Earth viewed by three men, uncertain they would ever return, are well worth the watch. Even the crude TV "graphics" tell a story of the time.
Bottom line: a superb documentary account of the near-disastrous mission - gripping stuff, highly recommended.3 attendees
Past events
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