We’ve received the following email from the BHA: The Commission on Integration and Cohesion (COIC) was set up by the Government to make recommendations as to how ‘local areas can make the most of diversity while being able to respond to the tensions it may cause’. They are now very close to making their final report and have asked members of the public to inform their last minute deliberations by contributing their own answers to the question, ‘If you were in charge for a day, what would you do to help people from different backgrounds in your neighbourhood get on better?

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: Veronica Broomes is the guest speaker at the UN Association’s AGM at The Friends’ Meeting House, 39 Fonnereau Road, Ipswich. Veronica Broomes works as a freelance consultant on sustainability and environmental issues. With a background in agricultural biotechnology research and as an environmental impact assessment practitioner, Veronica has been a sound grasp of the importance of sustainable development and implications of climate change on lives and livelihoods.

E-mail: mail@suffolkhumanists.org.uk Event description: ICR has short term licences that enable it to provide opportunities for local groups and individuals to learn about broadcasting. They showcase local talent at a variety of events. We’ve been on ICR in previous years! Further info: http://www.icrfm.co.uk/homepage.htm

Our latest newsletter is now available, with info on the appeal for a Humanist Thought for the Day on Radio 4, Andrew Copson’s upcoming visit to our June meeting, evidence-based ethics, community cohesion and our financial report. [Download SH News May 2007 (295 KB)](http://www.suffolkhumanists.org.uk/files/1/0705SH News.pdf)

The O Project champions the contributions that humanists and other atheists make to wider society and encourages good relations between atheists and religious people. Hamish McPherson says The O Project is an ‘idea’. The ‘O’ in the O Project is what you are left with when you take ‘god’ ‘out’ of ‘good’. In other words, it’s about how you can live a good life without following a religion. It has two goals:

“I’m not deterred one iota from coming back to protest in Moscow,” Peter Tatchell told PinkNews.co.uk from Moscow, just hours after he was attacked by suspected neo-Nazis and then arrested by the Russian riot police the OMON. “Gay Russians need overseas support to protect them against state and neo-Nazi violence.” Peter Tatchell speaks out after his violent Moscow assault- from Pink News- all the latest gay news from the gay community – Pink News.