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AU Orange County Chapter invites you to join us for our monthly chapter meeting. We meet on the first Saturday of every month at Irvine Water District Headquarters at 15600 Sand Canyon Avenue, Irvine, CA 92618-3102. Our meeting starts at 1:30 PM and social starts at 1 PM. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Protecting Your Right to Believe... Or Not
Next Event:
Saturday June 2nd, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Dr. Stephen Jamison of Compassion & Choices
Preserving Choice from Attack at the Beginning and End of Life: The War against Death and Sex
Dr. Stephen Jamison, the California Coordinator of Compassionate Choices will join us to discuss the strategic attack by right wing and religious groups on patients’ rights at the end of life and women’s rights for reproductive freedom.
Using the history of reproductive and end-of-life rights as our start, he will describe the similarities in the war against choice, and the efforts by Compassion & Choices to legislate, to bring cases to the courts, to educate, and to create a legal alternative for the dying.
Although three-quarters of Americans believe patients should be able to decide their end-of-life medical care, two-thirds support physician aid-in-dying, and an equally large percent support women's access to easy and affordable birth control, religious opponents and the political right continue to fight against patient choice.
He will discuss the legislative and initiative attempts to restrict patients advance healthcare directives and church involvement in fighting against patients’ rights even to the point of threatening excommunication of Catholic legislators who might support legal aid-in-dying. Opponents of reproductive freedom continue to chip away at access to abortion. All of this is likely to affect the choices of dying patients suffering with pain who desire pain medication, sedation, or termination of treatment, those in persistent vegetative states who can be kept alive against their wishes, and the care given to women seeking emergency contraception, and women suffering from life-threatening ectopic pregnancies in need of abortion.
Irvine Ranch Water District Headquarters (Multi-purpose Room) 15600 Sand Canyon Avenue (at Waterworks), Irvine, CA 92618*
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com
*IRWD neither supports nor endorses the cause nor the activities of organizations which use the district's meeting rooms that are made available as a public service.
Friday to Sunday September 28 to 30
Voices United
Concerts and events to raise awareness of the current situation in our country.
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com
Saturday June 2nd, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Dr. Stephen Jamison of Compassion & Choices
Preserving Choice from Attack at the Beginning and End of Life: The War against Death and Sex
Dr. Stephen Jamison, the California Coordinator of Compassionate Choices will join us to discuss the strategic attack by right wing and religious groups on patients’ rights at the end of life and women’s rights for reproductive freedom.
Using the history of reproductive and end-of-life rights as our start, he will describe the similarities in the war against choice, and the efforts by Compassion & Choices to legislate, to bring cases to the courts, to educate, and to create a legal alternative for the dying.
Although three-quarters of Americans believe patients should be able to decide their end-of-life medical care, two-thirds support physician aid-in-dying, and an equally large percent support women's access to easy and affordable birth control, religious opponents and the political right continue to fight against patient choice.
He will discuss the legislative and initiative attempts to restrict patients advance healthcare directives and church involvement in fighting against patients’ rights even to the point of threatening excommunication of Catholic legislators who might support legal aid-in-dying. Opponents of reproductive freedom continue to chip away at access to abortion. All of this is likely to affect the choices of dying patients suffering with pain who desire pain medication, sedation, or termination of treatment, those in persistent vegetative states who can be kept alive against their wishes, and the care given to women seeking emergency contraception, and women suffering from life-threatening ectopic pregnancies in need of abortion.
Irvine Ranch Water District Headquarters (Multi-purpose Room) 15600 Sand Canyon Avenue (at Waterworks), Irvine, CA 92618*
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com
*IRWD neither supports nor endorses the cause nor the activities of organizations which use the district's meeting rooms that are made available as a public service.
Saturday May 5, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Steven Baines, Director of Religious Outreach Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Rev. Steven Baines is Director for Religious Outreach at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State where he is responsible for the organization's national engagement with and mobilization of people of faith. Before coming to Americans United, he served as Director of Interfaith Outreach at both the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and People For the American Way. He has also served as Executive Director for Equal Partners in Faith, a national interfaith organization committed to fighting racism, sexism and homophobia.
Steve will be speaking to us about both the National Day of Prayer and the far more important First Amendment Day where we celebrate the five freedoms granted to us in the Constitution. Steve will also be discussing the need for the strong wall of separation between church and state and the attacks on it by the religious right.
Irvine Ranch Water District Headquarters (Multi-purpose Room) 15600 Sand Canyon Avenue (at Waterworks), Irvine, CA 92618*
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com
*IRWD neither supports nor endorses the cause nor the activities of organizations which use the district's meeting rooms that are made available as a public service.
Saturday April 7, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Hans Johnson The Interrelationship between LGBT Rights and Church-State Separation
Please join us as Hans Johnson speaks on how the LGBT rights movement and church-state separation struggles have been mutually constitutive over the last 60 years.
Hans Johnson is a longtime supporter of church state separation and an expert on labor, gay rights, and religious extremism. He has a winning record in coordinated, community-based action fueled by knowledge of the local and national political landscapes, Congress, and state legislatures. He has worked closely with leaders of nearly every constituency in civil society, including labor, business, banking, consumer advocacy, transportation, environmentalism, immigrants, good-government, disability, civil rights, education, philanthropy, media, arts, and moderate and progressive religious institutions.
Irvine Ranch Water District Headquarters (Multi-purpose Room) 15600 Sand Canyon Avenue (at Waterworks), Irvine, CA 92618*
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com
*IRWD neither supports nor endorses the cause nor the activities of organizations which use the district's meeting rooms that are made available as a public service.
Saturday March 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Film: No Girls Allowed! An Orange County NOW event
During times like this, it's important to spotlight how change can occur. So we're screening a new documentary (free of charge) on Saturday, March 24th at Cal State Fullerton. The film chronicles a landmark court case that allowed girls for the first time to attend a prestigious 147 year old all-boys public school. Six girls were finally allowed entrance in 1983. The film catches up with the women almost 30 years later as they recount the intense struggles they endured that first year at the school. The filmmakers will be at the screening for a Q&A session.
DATE: Saturday, March 24th
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Cal State Fullerton - 1406 Stephen G Mihaylo Hall (SGMH)
COST: FREE
To reserve your seat, please email us at: orangecountynow@yahoo.com
Saturday March 3rd, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Katherine Stewart The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children
In January, 2009, Katherine Stewart learned that the Santa Barbara public elementary school her children attended had added a Bible study class called the “Good News Club” to its afterschool program. Stewart’s curiosity turned to concern as she discovered that the unstated purpose of the club, which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, is to convey the impression to its young members and their schoolmates that their school favors a particular form of the Christian religion. She soon learned that the Good News Club—a seemingly spontaneous and voluntary after-school program—was in fact part of a larger, calculated initiative by national advocacy groups whose declared aim is to “take back” America’s public schools and repurpose them with a Fundamentalist Christian agenda.
What happened in Stewart’s community is happening nationwide: at the end of 2010 there were more than 3,500 Good News Clubs operating in public schools across the country, and the number is rapidly increasing. What’s more, a landmark 2001 Supreme Court ruling not only permits such an unusual pairing of schooling and religion, it effectively makes it obligatory.
Irvine Ranch Water District Headquarters (Multi-purpose Room) 15600 Sand Canyon Avenue (at Waterworks), Irvine, CA 92618*
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com
*IRWD neither supports nor endorses the cause nor the activities of organizations which use the district's meeting rooms that are made available as a public service.
Sunday February 12, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Dinner with Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Barry will visit us on February 12th. Come hear what Barry has to say about the future of Separation of Church and state in the US. Seating is limited, please sign up today.
Date: February 12, 2012
Time: 4 PM Cocktail with dinner at 5 pm
Dress code: business attire
Reservation online through paypal or send check to: AU-OC, 2781 W. MacArthur Blvd Suite B, Santa Ana, 92704
For information contact: Steph Campbell, (714) 299-4551, or e-mail orangecountyau@yahoo.com