I’m running for the Seattle Atheists Board as an At-Large Member, after becoming increasingly involved with the organization over the past year.
I’ve twice participated wrapping gifts to raise money Children’s Hospital, I marched with the FSM at the Fremont Fair and have tabled for Seattle Atheists at Seattle Pride and other events. I most recently wrote press releases for the Metro bus ad campaign.
Our organization is growing on a wave of increased visibility, and I want to serve on the board to channel that wave to confront anti-atheist persecution and popular misconceptions about non-believers.
I plan on doing this by working to creating a public access call-in show for the organization with a rotating group of co-hosts. Not only will this help promote Seattle Atheists and all of their activities to a far larger audience, like charity gift-wrapping, the season-less food drive, the FSM at parades, or donations and memberships.
It would also help counter-balance the glut of religionist programming available on TV with a skewed views on non-believers. It would create an opportunity for us to assert our own views rather than have them put in our mouths. And I think the call-in content on public access will make for some good TV and comedic gold. The rotating hosts will help avoid creating any sort of cult of personality and highlight the vast range of opinions in our community. Don’t think we disagree? Christopher Hitchens. Discuss.
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After a couple of years’ hiatus from being on the board, I have learned quite a bit by being a non-board member and it’s brought a whole new perspective to me on how we can make the organization better every year. So, I would like to run for the board to bring that fresh view to light by once again offering my skills in communication, marketing, event planning, and some innovative PR ideas.
I am also willing to be a representative for the group if needed for TV, news, and radio interviews with board approval of the ‘company line’ on certain topics, and I have past experience with this. It would also be my goal to seek out future talents for the board by proactively meeting with members and prospective members to help them feel comfortable enough to step forward and to get involved in a more active capacity with us.
As a founder and lifetime member of Seattle Atheists it is and always will be very important to me to have a new ideas on the board while still maintaining the integrity of our original mission statement. I possess both a foundational view as well as a progressive one at this time and I would like to work with the board to further develop the many new organization goals that have been proposed and need to be implemented.
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The Seattle Atheists Board will convene tomorrow, August 16th, 2009 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Greenlake Public Library (7364 E. Green Lake Dr. N., Seattle, WA 98115). Agenda will be available at the meeting.
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Join us on June 14, at 2:00 p.m. at the Capitol Hill Library for our June board meeting.
We’ve got a lot of exciting projects going on at the moment, so it’s sure to be a full meeting. If you’d like to contribute or simply watch the administrative process in action, feel free to join us!
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