Touching on Numerous Issues
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this week's show, guest-hosted by FFRF Communications Director Amit Pal, we first touch on a number of events in the news, ranging from the international to the national to recent Wisconsin election results. We then talk with FFRF Staff Attorney Sam Grover about how the term "religious freedom" is being currently used and misused. We conclude with an interview with documentarian Mary Dore, the director of a film on the early women's rights movement, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, on how and why she made the movie and its relevance to the state of women's rights today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Welcome to free thought radio. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Amitpal, the communications director. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm Amit Pahl, the communications director at the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:01.6 | And FFRFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Gala and Dan Barker, the longtime hosts of our radio show, |
| 1:09.4 | are not here today because they're flying back from Poland, |
| 1:12.7 | where they participated in the International Days of Atheism Conference. |
| 1:17.3 | And that's why they asked me to fill in as a guest host for today's show. |
| 1:21.6 | So this is the April 4th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:26.8 | And as usual, we have Buzz Kemper as our engineer, |
| 1:32.0 | producing this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio |
| 1:36.6 | right here in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:39.1 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:42.4 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:45.6 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:51.1 | which is a national organization of more than 31,000 atheists and agnostics working to keep |
| 1:59.3 | state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of non-theists. |
| 2:05.4 | And we hope that today, not someday, as John Lennon sang, that's a place where we defer from him. |
| 2:13.1 | In the second half of today's show, I'll have the privilege to speak with Mary Doer, the director of a movie on the history of women's rights, or the early history of the women's movement, called She's Beautiful When She's Angry. |
| 2:28.4 | The movie is about the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971. |
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