Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

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Soap box orator/atheist Charles Lee Smith speaks in Columbus Circle in 1934 New York City

Unissued / unused material. <br/> <br/>American newsreel item. <br/> <br/>Free World hails NATO on its 10th Birthday, Washington DC, United States of America (USA). <br/> <br/>Guard of Honour, pan to exterior of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, with Guard of Honour outside. CU US soldiers. Top shot of Ministers arriving. Assembly. MS President Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) walking toward stand. CU President Eisenhower speaking (natural sound): <br/> <br/>"We shall continue to make concrete and realistic proposals for disarmament for the solutions of the problems of Germany, for European security and for co-operation in the newly opening realm of outer space. Although we shall always avoid substitution, substituting illusion for reality, we shall continue to strive for a more general and far reaching, but always practical settlement of difference with the Soviets. The need for everlasting peace with justice is the abandonment of the Communist purpose of World domination. Those who respect the dignity of man will not flinch before the magnitude of the task, rather they prove once again that greatness of of spirit and love of liberty will overcome the forces atheistic materialism and coercion and give to all nations under God the blessings of security along with a just and durable peace." <br/> <br/>Date on dope sheet is 02/04/1959. <br/> <br/>NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organisations.

6/4/2024

STEVE MARTIN performs ATHEISTS DON'T HAVE NO SONGS on Austin City Limits in 2010

Audience in courtroom, lawyer objects, audience, judges discussing, witness worries about being called an atheistic Communist

The Freedom From Religion Foundation erected a 8 foot tall A representing Atheists and Agnostics in the holiday display at Daley Plaza. "A" Is For Atheist' Explanation Sig For Decoration at Daley Plaza on December 04, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois (Footage by Tribune Broadcasting/Getty Images)

WINGS UP

The International March for Lesbian and Gay Freedom took place on September 30, 1984. Marchers walked from Sheridan Square (Christopher Street and 7th Avenue South) to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across from the U.N. There were a few hundred demonstrators and the event is very little remembered. This is the only known moving image record of the event. 00:37- Ian Scott Horst 00:40- David France (also 03:04) 00:59- Radical Women (03:36, 06:44, 11:10) 01:07- Gary Adler (10:26) 01:50- Gil Gerald 01:59- Black & White Men Together 01:57- NYU Lesbian & Gay Law Students 02:26- Dee Michel 02:44- Association pour les droits des gaies et lesbiennes du Québec 03:36- Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) 03:46- Irish Lesbians & Gays Against Imperialism 03:51- David Thorstad (04:02) 04:04- Bill Andriette 04:13- Ed Glorius 04:37- Nelson Gonzalez 04:45- American Gay Atheists, Dominic Florio 06:26- Robert Cohen 06:37- Grupo Lambda de Liberación Homosexual 07:00- Steve Ault 07:12- Jim Fouratt 09:38- Mitchell Karp

Handwritten note on door reading: "BIBLE HATING COMMIE!". Woman turns on light, Woman answers phone, family gathers around, answer harassing phone calls, woman answers phone patiently, explains that they're not atheists

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TODAY GAVE A PREVIEW OF ITEMS OWNED BY ATHEIST MADLYN MURRAY O'HAIR THAT WILL BE AUCTIONED OFF. THE PROPERTY WAS SEIZED LAST MONTH BY THE I.R.S. BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF BACK FEDERAL INCOME TAXES. MURRAY--WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR MORE THAN A YEAR--OWES MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS IN TAXES. THE AUCTION WILL BE HELD SATURDAY IN AUSTIN. AMONG THE ITEMS UP FOR AUCTION IS A 1985 PORSCHE SPORTS CAR, A BIBLE FROM A TULSA, OKLAHOMA BAPTIST CHURCH, ATHEIST T-SHIRTS AND A VARIETY OF BOOKS AND PERSONALIZED GLASSES AND SILVERWARE. O'HAIR ALONG WITH HER SON JON MURRAY AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER ROBIN MURRAY O'HAIR WERE LAST SEEN IN SEPTEMBER OF 1995 WHEN THEY LEFT FOR NEW YORK TO PICKET AN APPEARANCE BY THE POPE. AUTHORITIES SAY MONTHLY CHARGES HAVE BEEN MADE ON ROBIN MURRAY O'HAIR'S CREDIT CARD AND THAT THE MONTHLY BALANCES HAVE BEEN PAID.-END-

Lesbian and Gay Pride Marches were community affairs in the early days. There were no barriers between the viewers and the marchers. Often marchers would spot friends on the sidelines and stop to talk and watch the march for a while, rejoining the march when other friends or interesting groups passed by. Similarly, people who started out watching would spot friends and join the march. Thus there was a fluidity to the event and no clear distinction between observer and participant – everybody was part of the community. Also, as this was a community event, people marched as individuals or as members of community organizations or ad hoc groups (e.g., Fags Against Facial Hair). The only corporate floats represented bars, not huge international corporations. 01:44- NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) (also 03:38) 01:55- American Gay Atheists 02:05- Rudy Grillo 03:17- Bagel And… (This restaurant occupied the space where the Stonewall Inn had been.) 03:32- Mobilization for Survival 03:43- David Thorstad (05:21) 04:12- The Guardian (the small radical leftist newspaper from the U.S, not the U.K. daily) “Capitalism is the Real Perversion” 05:25- Dominic Florio 05:34- Nelson Gonzalez 06:04- People lounging on the Pulitzer Fountain 06:50- GCN (Gay Community News, the weekly out of Boston) 08:09- Reproductive Rights National Network 08:20- CARASA (Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse) 08:43- ARC (AIDS Resource Center, later Bailey House) 09:00- Richard Dworkin, John Bernd (dancing in suspenders) 11:38- Gay Teachers 11:56- Radical Women

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LONDON, UK - OCTOBER 7: "What we have seen, I am afraid, in Gaza and now we are seeing in Lebanon, is innocent men, women and children paying the price for Israeli aggression, which is unacceptable," said Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf in an interview with Anadolu in the British capital city of London on Monday, Oct. 7. Emphasizing that the events happening in the Middle East, especially in Gaza and Lebanon, should be approached with humanitarian sensitivities rather than religious ones, Yousaf said: "Well look, for me it's not an issue about being a Muslim, this is an issue about being pro-humanity, because whether it's a Muslim, an atheist, a Jew, a Christian, it doesn't matter who's being killed, if an innocent person's being killed, then we have to stand up against it." On the UK's relations with Israel, he said: "I demanded the UK government stop selling arms, but yet the UK government still keeps selling arms to a country that is committing war crime after war crime, that is killing innocent men, women and children, and that is bombing schools, bombing hospitals, bombing UN facilities." Yousaf added that that's completely and utterly unacceptable. Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire. Nearly 42,000 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 97,100 others injured, according to local health authorities. The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine. *Reporting by Behlül Çetinkaya *Writing by Fahri Aksüt (Footage by Behlül Çetinkaya /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

9/15/2024

FTG FOR DAN HARRIS CS VO ON THE FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, AN ATHEIST GROUP THAT BELIEVES THAT RELIGION IS A THREAT TO CIVILIZATION