Special Guest: Debra Sweet, Social Activist

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Debra Sweet, whose statement to Pres. Nixon as a 19-year-old made international headlines, talks about her continuing activism with the groups Refuse & Resist, and World Can't Wait, both of which are concerned with attacks on the separation between church and state. The show also marks the birthdate of celebrated composer George Gershwin, and airs a current "Theocracy Alert." (MP3, 50 min, 45.7 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
0:11.1	featuring Foundation co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:16.4	irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:32.0	No hell below us.
0:42.3	Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today.
0:56.4	Welcome to Freethought Radio, all you godless infidels and friendly freethinkers
1:01.7	and a warm hello to everyone else listening to our weekly show devoted to the secular point of view.
1:08.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:10.4	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1,
1:15.1	streaming live from Madison, Wisconsin, and podcasting on September 29, 2007.
1:22.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, and I'm here with Annie Laurie Gaylor co-hosting, and we have Brian
1:28.2	Tarani in the studio, our producer and engineer. Free Thought Radio is a non-faith-based
1:35.2	initiative. It's a non-faith-based production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We work to
1:42.0	keep stayed in church separate, wonderful secular principle
1:45.9	that originated with the American Constitution. And we also work to remind the world that
1:51.1	non-believers are here, a huge segment of the population, our atheists, agnostics, non-believers,
1:57.3	secularists, infidels, heretics, whatever you want to call us, we are here,
2:01.6	and this is a little bit of radio for the rest of us.
2:06.4	And this is a important reminder that starting on Saturday, September 6th,
2:11.4	Free Thought Radio will be carried on Air America Radio nationally.
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