Diary
Ipswich Science in the Pub
Tuesday, Nov 1, 2011They’ll be at the Brewery Tap again, upstairs this time – details to be announced.The Ipswich Mayors Celebration of Community
Tuesday, Nov 1, 2011Mayor Councillor John Le Grys (who’s an agnostic) has chosen the theme of social inclusion for this years’s Celebration of Community that will launch Inter-Faith Week 2011. He’s being helped by Suffolk Inter-Faith Resource (SIFRE). It will take place in the Council Chamber at the Town Hall, where humanist celebrant Margaret Nelson will act as MC and one of our members will sing with the multi-faith choir. Everyone is welcome.Ipswich Town Hall
Tuesday, Nov 1, 2011Click here for a map showing Ipswich car parks (pdf).The 2011 Bad Faith Award
Monday, Oct 31, 2011Have you voted in New Humanist magazine’s annual Bad Faith Award poll? This year’s nominees are Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Anjem Choudary, Nadine Dorries, Tom MacMaster and Melanie Phillips. Click here to cast your vote by 28 November. Hard to choose, isn’t it?Biofuels land grab destroys African village
Monday, Oct 31, 2011As car ownership increases worldwide, many people might imagine that biofuels are the answer to pollution. However, many create greater greenhouse gas emissions than the oil-based fuels they’re meant to replace and the companies that produce them have few scruples about taking land off poor people to produce them. See this report from Action Aid of one such land grab, and sign their petition. How a biofuels land grab has desroyed an African village.7 billion people, and counting
Monday, Oct 31, 2011By the end of today, the world’s population is expected to reach 7 billion. It has almost doubled since the late ’60s and is expected to reach 10 billion within the century. This is potentially catastrophic for several reasons; the effect on the environment of human activity; the demand for dwindling resources, including food and water, and the impossibility of ensuring a decent quality of life for everyone. How can we prevent the population from continuing to increase, and reverse the trend?Religious literacy, and why it matters
Saturday, Oct 29, 2011There are many atheists and self-styled humanists who are so anti-religious that they don’t want to know anything about it. When they talk about Islam, say, it becomes evident that they know very little about Muslims, and have probably never knowingly spoken to one. As far as they’re concerned, Islam is a threat, and that’s all there is to it. When it comes to our quality of life, what matters is how people behave, not what they believe.URGENT ACTION send a message to the Commonwealth leaders today
Friday, Oct 28, 2011Commonwealth leaders are meeting in Perth, Australia. You may have read about this in news stories about a change to the constitution that will allow the daughters of any future UK monarch to have an equal right to the throne. This was agreed unanimously. However, there is another issue that’s just as important, of not more so. Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, has made a courageous speech calling on each of the Commonwealth nations to finally end discrimination and criminalization of LGBT people.We are moving
Thursday, Oct 27, 2011From November 2011, we’ll meet in the Inter-Faith Centre in the West Building at University Campus Suffolk, Suffolk Inter-Faith Resource‘s base. There is ample car parking. Hope to see you there. UCS website with directions.West Building, University Campus Suffolk
Thursday, Oct 27, 2011Enter the UCS car park at Long Street from the junction opposite the Waterfront Building off Fore Street, Fore Hamlet, Back Hamlet and Duke Street. The West Building is at the top right corner of the car park (see campus map). To enter, press the button marked ‘SIFRE’ (you might need a torch to see the buttons after dark). The Inter-Faith Centre (marked SIFRE) is on the 1st floor. Either use the stairs then go straight ahead to the far end of the corridor, then turn left, or turn left at the entrance and go along the corridor for the lift.