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Now Available! 2007 Convention DVDs - Convention Collectibles - Convention Photos

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2008 AAI Convention Internet Streaming
- AAI is offering live Internet streaming video of the 2008 AAI "Unsinkable Atheism" convention....

Atheist Alliance International (AAI) is pleased to announce that the 2008 Community Cooperation Award has increased!!
- The Community Cooperation Award (CCA) will increase to a first prize of $600 and a runner-up prize of $300...deadline August 31, 2008

National Day of Reason is May 1, 2008
- Affiliate groups of the Atheist Alliance International (AAI) will be organizing blood drives the first week in May to commemorate the annual National Day of Reason, held on the first Thursday of May each year....

The Golden Compass Points in the Correct Direction
- Atheist Alliance International battles church censorship of ground breaking movie....

2007 Crystal Clear Atheism DVD collection Now Available
- AAI is pleased to offer for sale a beautiful 2007 Crystal Clear Atheism DVD collection. The full set consists of eight individual DVDs which include workshop presentations and a convention highlights disk. Those additional disks can NOT BE FOUND ANYWHERE OTHER than through this exclusive AAI offer! The DVD collection is presented in a keepsake binder with original Gary Smith artwork on the cover. The cost of the full eight DVD set is $80....

AAI 2007 Convention Collectibles
- Now Available! 2007 Convention Collectibles...including 12 page speakers booklet, and an original Gary Smith cartoon (11" X 14") created to include caricatures of the honored speakers hosted by AAI at the 2007 Crystal Clear Atheism Convention.

AAI Website now available in multiple languages
- The AAI website is now available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Russian...

AAI 2007 Convention DVD's Available Soon
- Atheist Alliance International's "Crystal Clear Atheism" 2007 Convention DVDs coming soon! Please visit this site in November 2007 to find ordering information for DVDs of individual presentations and/or an entire convention collection. Prices to be announced.

Video stream purchase deadline extrended
- Video stream purchase deadline extrended for 2007 AAI convention.

2007 AAI Convention - Video feed/book sales
- The Atheist Alliance International's "Crystal Clear Atheism" 2007 convention is completely sold out. However, AAI is pleased to offer the opportunity to view all or part of the convention as a live Internet video stream.

Atheism Made "Crystal Clear" - 2007 AAI Convention
- 2007 Atheist Alliance International Convention tackles the social and political issues surrounding the nontheist community.

Colorado group releases video about atheism directed at students
- The Last Presentation is a 38-minute educational video that targets social science classes in diversity, sociology, and comparative religion...The video depicts a presenter addressing a comparative religion class of 35 students. She gives an atheist's point of view and answers questions from students...

The Colors of a Tragedy - Virgina Tech
- To enable the atheist community to communicate and grieve together following the Virginia Tech tragedy, AAI has partnered with the Godless Grief website and discussion group. The Internet has become the place for the atheist community to meet, share sorrows and help each other through difficult times, the Godless Grief website provides a much needed link where atheists can communicate with others in times of need.

Application for Community Cooperation Award - Deadline Extended
- Atheist Alliance International (AAI) is pleased to announce that the application deadline for the 2007 Community Cooperation Award has been extended. Application and announcement suitable for printing are available.

Margaret Downey appears on Dogma Free America podcast.
- Margaret Downey's February 15, 2007 radio interview with Dogma Free America is available...

AAI 2007 Convention
- Please mark your calendars now and plan to attend the AAI 2007 Convention which will take place on the east coast. Pre-convention activities will start on Thursday, September 27. The convention will end the afternoon of Sunday, September 30, 2007....

Atheist Alliance International Elects New President
- Atheist Alliance International (AAI), which has forty-four member societies in the United States and ten in other countries, announced on August 27, 2006 that its board has unanimously elected a new president, Margaret Downey, from Pocopson, Pennsylvania. She replaces Bobbie Kirkhart, who had served as president since 2002...

Sacramento's AOF Wins AAI's Community Cooperation Award!
- AAI had a number of well-qualified entries for its 2006 award, the first ever given by the Alliance. Based on the group's activities during 2005, Atheists and Other Freethinkers of Sacramento (www.aofonline.org) was selected by the Awards Committee as having had a most impressive list of achievements accomplishments for the year...

Atheist, Student Groups Head to the Heartland
- The nation's foremost monologist, the heartland's most controversial professor, Washington's only registered lobbyist for atheism, and the United Nations' first atheist President of the Committee for Freedom of Religion and Belief will convene in Kansas City, Missouri, April 14-16 for the first-ever joint convention of the Atheist Alliance International and the Secular Student Alliance...

Atheist Alliance Decries Capitulation to Islamic Violence
- Atheist Alliance International calls on all governments that claim to value freedom of expression to stand up to the bullying tactics of Islamic militants, who are wreaking havoc around the world in response to the printing, in privately-run periodicals, of editorial cartoons depicting Mohammed...

Nigerian Humanist Movement Opposes Government Move to Ban Same-Sex Marriages
- The Federal Executive Council approved a bill that prohibits same-sex marriages and relationships. The bill provides for a prison term of five years with no option of fine for anyone who contracts or has relationship with a person of the same sex...

AAI Community Cooperation Award
- See how your group could win $500...

AAI Regrets University of Kansas Decision
- The Atheist Alliance International regrets the cancellation of the religious studies course originally titled "Intelligent Design, Creationism and Other Religious Mythologies"...

The Atheist Alliance 2005 Convention is now available on DVD!
- If you missed the 2005 convention, or you are considering to attend the 2006 convention, but first want to know what it's like, then get the DVD...

Atheist Group Salutes Ruling as Upholding American Values
- The Atheist Alliance International celebrates U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton's decision, which prohibits school districts from coercing children to recite the religious oath...


For more information contact:
Margaret Downey
Atheist Alliance International President
P. O. Box 242, Pocopson, Pennsylvania 19366
Phone: (610) 793-2737 • Fax: (610) 793-2569 • Email:

ATHEIST ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL
The Democratic Alliance of Autonomous Atheistic Societies
Website: www.atheistalliance.org

Atheist Alliance International (AAI), founded in 1991, is an umbrella organization for local, autonomous, religion-free groups as well as individual members.

It has 54 member societies in the United States and 10 in other countries. AAI is the only fully democratic atheist organization in the United States.

Its purposes are to help establish and strengthen the religion-free community at the grassroots level and to achieve visibility and acceptance for atheists as respected contributors to discussions of public policy.

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