The Power of Protest
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Iranian-born Maryam Namazie, with "Ex-Muslims of Britain," describes the dire situation in Iran where protesters of the patriarchal regime are being persecuted and killed. She also tells us how we can help. Then we speak with Harvard student Aidan Scully, who writes a secular column in the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson that combats Christian Nationalism and advocates for state/church separation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gayer and happy Halloween and secular Day of the Dead. |
| 0:58.4 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio and co-president with Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:07.6 | This is the October 27th, 22 episode of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:13.3 | Grant Blashka, with Audio for the Arts, is engineering in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio, right here in Freethad Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:27.6 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:31.7 | and FFRF works for two purposes to educate you the public about the views of non-theists, |
| 1:39.6 | atheists agnostics. We serve as a national membership organization of 38,000 in North America, and we work very hard to buttress that very besieged wall of separation between religion and government. And you can help us at fFRF.org. |
| 1:58.0 | If you've been following the news, you know that the situation in Iran is desperate. |
| 2:04.9 | Protesters of the patriarchal regime there are being persecuted and killed. |
| 2:11.6 | A week ago, the U.S.-based human rights activist news agency reported that at least 240 protesters have been killed, including |
| 2:20.4 | 32 children, nearly 8,000 have been arrested. In a few minutes, we're going to talk with |
| 2:27.6 | Mariam Namazi. She's an Iranian-born activist who works with the UK's One Law for All. |
| 2:35.4 | We're going to talk with her about the dire straits in Iran. |
| 2:40.0 | And after that, we'll speak with Aidan Scully, who is FFRF's newest student activist awardee, |
| 2:47.0 | winning a $2,000 scholarship for writing a bi-weekly column that he just started, devoted to the rise of Christian nationalism for Harvard's student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson. |
| 3:01.3 | Today's the anniversary of the birth of Niccolo Paganini, who was born October 27, 1782. Paganini, the virtuoso Italian violinist and composer, |
| 3:15.5 | lived a completely religion-free life. He refused the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church |
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