by podblack on November 22, 2009
I’ve come across rather dodgy efforts disguised under genuine educational materials getting into schools before… but this is a new one to me, which I think should be better known to people. ABC News reports: The New South Wales Government says the Church of Scientology is targeting Year 6 students using “marketing” material that claims [...]
by podblack on December 14, 2008
Well, today I went to the Perth Atheists / Western Australian Humanists joint BBQ on the Swan River! Whilst I’m yet to download the photos (came home after all the food and did a bit of couch-crashing) — what I do have for my fellow humanists and atheists are the following items of interest. First, [...]
by podblack on May 21, 2008
So, Amnesty International are doing a bit of a phone-around recently, getting a friend to sign onto their charity. They’re doing some awareness-raising about the situation in China, with a goal to construct huge yellow ‘walls’ all over Australia to represent the Chinese internet censorship regime known as the Golden Shield or the Great Firewall [...]