Posts Tagged ‘Bus signs’

Check out the Dave Ross show from this morning to hear Valerie talk about the Seattle Atheists bus sign campaign that’s going on right now. It’s on the 10:00 a.m. Segment at about 25:00. Paul and I get a shout-out. Thanks, Valerie! She does such a wonderful job putting the controversy into perspective.

From the NYT:
For the city’s organized atheists — here’s hoping that doesn’t sound oxymoronic — the rotten economy would seem in one respect to be Heaven-sent.
“You got it,” Kenneth Bronstein said. Mr. Bronstein is president of New York City Atheists, whose name should be self-explanatory.
For the last month, his group has run 12-foot-long advertisements on [...]

Be sure to stop by your news stand book store and pick up the new August issue of Seattle Magazine. SA gets a nice big story, and they talk about the bus signs!

This is to all the folks out there who might want to run the same signs Seattle Atheists is running, beginning this week. Send me an e-mail and I’ll send you the artwork.

From AFP:
More than 100,000 Britons have recently downloaded “certificates of de-baptism” from the Internet to renounce their Christian faith.
The initiative launched by a group called the National Secular Society (NSS) follows atheist campaigns here and elsewhere, including a London bus poster which triggered protests by proclaiming “There’s probably no God.”
“We now produce a certificate on [...]

So, on Sunday, the day this story about the Seattle Atheists bus signs appeared in the Seattle Times, someone launched a DoS (Denial of Service) attack against SeattleAtheist.org. It was so cute.
I guess we have arrived!

SEATTLE ATHEISTS LAUNCHES METRO BUS OUTREACH CAMPAIGN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Seattle Atheists will begin its bus outreach campaign on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009, on King County Metro buses in the downtown Seattle area. The campaign will run for two months and will feature three brightly-colored interior signs featuring quotes from important and well-regarded historical figures: a founding [...]

Thanks to Seattle Weekly and Neil Estep for a very nice story on the signs.
In contrast to the holiday hubbub caused by those signs in the state Capitol building last December (“Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds”)—which were put up by an out-of-town group and arguably backfired—Seattle Atheists is [...]

Update on a little side project I’ve been working on for a few months.
Seattle Atheists President Case will be talking about the new Seattle Atheists bus sign campaign on Valerie Tarico’s SCAN TV show, Moral Politics, on Friday the 20th at 8:00 p.m. Watch live at http://www.scantv.org/.
The Seattle Atheists advertising campaign begins April 1 (yes, [...]