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Rationalist International Bulletin19 December 2013
** Rationalist magazine from Helsinki
Sanal Edamaruku is launching the Rationalist magazine
Embarking on a great journey------------------------------------------------------------
You are invited to join me and embark on this journey as a Founding Subscriber.
With 2014 just around the corner, it is time for an exciting announcement. One of the first things the New Year is going to bring will be a new magazine!
I am pleased to inform that we are launching - with great thrill and anticipation - an English language quarterly journal namely "Rationalist". It will come as Internet magazine as well as tactile and tangible object printed on good old paper.
I like to see this magazine as a ship starting out to new horizons. As the captain, I am joined by an international crew of brilliant and committed rationalist thinkers and writers spanning over several continents. We are striving for a world without borders where reason, science and human rights come out on top and chase away the shadows that superstition, fundamentalism and intolerance that are still casting over human lives.
Welcome to everyone sailing under the same wind. Let us forget about nomenclatures. We believe in openness and cooperation and in the power of dynamic individuals to change the world.
Join us now and help us setting sail.
You are invited to embark on this journey as a Founding Subscriber.
(
http://rationalistinternational.net/subscription/ )
- Sanal Edamaruku
Exploring a wider base------------------------------------------------------------
The idea behind Rationalist magazine is to create an open forum of intellectual honesty beyond different names that individual groups use for the broad movement - Rationalism, Freethought, Secularism, Humanism, Skepticism, Atheism, Scientific Temper and many others. These names are dear to us based on our history, tradition or culture, and our focus of activities. Rationalist magazine wishes to explore our common objectives and common lines. World-class articles, well known columnists, in-dept studies, reports from around the world, announcements and reports of conferences and activities of all major organizations. Representing every branch of our movement, the Rationalist magazine will have an inclusive and participative approach - beyond borders.
How to join this historic venture?------------------------------------------------------------
We invite you to join the Rationalist magazine as a Founding Subscriber. Your support will stabilize the foundation of this venture. All Founding Subscribers will be acknowledged in the journal. There are other levels of subscriptions also.
Subscribe here. (
http://rationalistinternational.net/subscription/ )
Pekka Elo is no more------------------------------------------------------------
With deep grief, we report: Pekka Elo, President of the Finnish Humanist Union and an Honorary Associate of Rationalist International, passed away on 14 December 2013, at a Helsinki hospital.
Pekka Elo (born 1949) served in a senior position in the Finnish Board of Education since 1991. He was also a member of the Matriculation Examination Board of Finland. At the Board of Education, he was linked to the UNESCO World Heritage projects. He has authored books on secular education and culture.
Pekka has widely travelled around the world and attended several conferences in India, including all the three International Rationalist Conferences.
Pekka Elo is remembered with respect and affection.
Pictures: (Top) Pekka Elo addressing Humanist seminar at Helsinki on 16 November 2013; (Down) Sanal Edamaruku, Petri Karisma and Pekka Elo at the office of Finnish Freethinkers' Union in 2013.
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RATIONALIST INTERNATIONAL
President: Sanal Edamaruku
HONORARY ASSOCIATES: Richard Dawkins (UK), James Randi (USA), Richard Leakey
(Kenya), Henry Morgentaler (Canada), Pieter Admiraal (The Netherlands), Mike Archer
(Australia), Katsuaki Asai (Japan), Colin Blakemore (UK), Bill Cooke (New Zealand),
Helena Cronin (UK), Jan Loeb Eisler (USA), Tom Flynn (USA), Jim Herrick (UK), Ellen
Johnson (USA), Malgorzata Koraszewska (Poland), Andrzaj Koraszewski (Poland),
Lavanam (India), Maryam Namazie (Iran), Taslima Nasreen (Bangladesh), Steinar Nilsen
(Norway), Jean-Claude Pecker (France), Ajoy Roy (Bangladesh), Younus Shaikh
(Pakistan), Barbara Smoker (UK), Richard Stallman (USA), Rob Tielman (The
Netherlands), David Tribe (Australien), K Veeramani (India), Bary Williams
(Australia), Richard Wiseman (UK), Lewis Wolpert (UK), Jocelyn Bézecourt (France).
Past Honorary Associates: Hermann Bondi (1919 - 2005, UK), Christopher Hitchens
(1949 – 2011, USA), Paul Kurtz (1925 - 2012, USA), Vern Bullough (1928 – 2006, USA),
Joseph Edamaruku (1934 - 2006, India), Pekka Elo (1949 - 2013, Finland), Antony Flew
(1923 – 2010, UK), G N Jyoti Shankar (1940 - 2000, USA).
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