My radio interview for Atheists of Maine

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Michael

I was recently interviewed on The Pulse, a radio program here in Maine. I was given the opportunity to talk about Atheists of Maine and some of the charity work we’re doing tomorrow and in the future. I think overall it went pretty well, but I do need to polish up on the charisma a little bit. Saying “uh” and having a tendency to pause a lot tends to make for a little rough radio.

So, check out the November 15th interview here and go here to read about Atheists of Maine’s charity work in Brewer. (Skip to about the 43 minute mark in the interview.)

(And for anyone wondering, I have a part 2 to my most recent post in the works. I just don’t have time to finish it right now.)

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Atheists of Maine volunteer effort

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Michael

Everything that follows is from Atheists of Maine:

We’ve been talking about making an effort to get Atheists of Maine involved with a charity this Thanksgiving. We want to do something hands-on that will enable us to do some good while also showing people that atheists are good without God. We were open to a number of possibilities, including teaming up with religious organizations, but as of today we have found our charity: . Here’s their mission statement:

Food AND Medicine’s mission is to organize, educate, and empower workers and our communities in the fight for economic and social justice. Food AND Medicine believes that by working together with unions, farmers, community groups, small businesses, and faith-based organizations we will create solutions and positive change.

Right now they’re looking to put together 1000 meals at $30 a piece. As it so happens, one of our members has generously offered to put $1,000 towards the charity we help, so that means Food AND Medicine will be able to put together about another 33 meals to feed another 33 families.

Stuff like this makes a big difference.

In addition to the monetary donation being made in the name of Atheists of Maine, our members will be volunteering time this Sunday (and potentially other days) to put these baskets together and help make this whole show work. If interested – atheist or not – let us know! The more help, the better.

Location and Time

Food AND Medicine is located at Solidarity Center, 20 Ivers Street, Brewer, ME 04412 and they need help over the course of a number of days. For Atheists of Maine, we will be helping this Sunday, November 18. For those who can’t make that date but still want to help, here is a copy and paste from an email we received earlier today:

Sort Preparation– Tuesday November 13th – Thursday November 15th
Times: 10am – 5pm each day
Location: 20 Ivers St (Solidarity Center)
Projects: washing and sorting produce, preparing bags, sorting stuffing, setting up for weekend sort

SORTING DAYS! – Friday November 16th – Monday November 19th
Times: 8am – 6pm each day. Our biggest needs are all day Friday and Saturday in the morning
Location: 20 Ivers St (Solidarity Center)
Projects: carrying produce to hall from basement, helping sort produce, carrying full bags back to basement, helping load trucks

Final truck and clean up — Tuesday November 20th
Times: 8am – 10am
Location: 20 Ivers St (Solidarity Center)
Project: Loading final 150 baskets onto semi truck, help with Solidarity Center clean up

Again, Atheists of Maine will be helping this Sunday. Any time between 8:00am and 6:00pm is fine, and we’ll update our Facebook page as to when Michael, Ryan, and/or Will (the AoM co-leaders) plan on getting there.

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Atheists of Maine blog and store

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Michael

We’re really vamping things up with Atheists of Maine. We originally started out as just a Facebook group, but now we’ve been involved in newspaper interviews, we’ve had a couple of meetings (check our Facebook page), and now we’re expanding our operations with the creation of a cafepress store. We hope to become a 501(c)3 in the near future, but that remains to be seen. We also have a brand new blog.

The Store

The goal of opening this store is to raise funds to cover costs associated with IRS filings to become a 501(c)3. Of course, as I said, it remains to be seen if this happens. And why? Well, we don’t know what we’re going to have for funds. If we only end up raising $25, we may keep things lower key. I don’t see that happening, but it’s a possibility. However, no matter what we raise, all the money will go towards non-profit causes. That almost certainly means our filing costs, but worse comes to worst, we’ll just donate the money to the Red Cross or some local charity.

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Atheists of Maine

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Michael

A brand, spankin’ new site devoted to bringing together the atheists of Maine has just launched. Appropriately, it can be found at atheistsofmaine.com. I know, crazy.

Join up. It’s free and pretty simple to do, and more importantly, early membership is important in helping new sites like this to thrive.

So do it. Visit atheistsofmaine.com and sign yourself up.

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