• From the Leader - Teaching Evolution is Important
• ESWoW Community Call - Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 with Anne Klaeysen
• Ethical Action - Ethical Action Reports
• From Around the Movement - American Ethical Union Assembly - Save the Date
• Closing Words - A. Eustace Haydon

From the Leader
For Darwin Day this year, Susan Rose focuses on Teaching Evolution  and how important science education is.

ESWoW Community Call - February 19, 2012
An Update on the Evolution Wars
Presidential candidates who don't believe in evolution. School districts trying to give equal weight to teaching "intelligent design."  Why is science important to Ethical Culturists?  Are there connections between science and poetry?

Please join the ESWoW Community call with guest Dr. Anne Klaeysen, one of the Leaders of the NY Society for Ethical Culture.  Anne spoke at the NY Society on Feb. 5, 2012 on "Inherit the Wind" Revisited: An Update on the Evolution Wars (video) in honor of Darwin Day (Feb. 12).  She will join us to discuss these current day concerns about science, evolution and public policy. I just listened to this Platform and appreciate Anne's combination of good science, clear analysis and poetry.  

Please join us on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, 5pm PT, 6pm MT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET.
The number to join the call is 866-740-1260, access code 5766842#. This call will last one hour.

For safety reasons we ask that you not drive while participating in ESWoW calls.

Know someone who might be interested in this discussion? Please invite her or him, or them! Interested in this topic, but can't make the call? Please let me know - susan.rose@eswow.org.

Ethical Action
Ethical Action Reports for February 2012 (PDF)
Topics covered:  

• Hold Wall Street Accountable
• Promote Green Energy Innovation through Incentives
• Support the Reason Rally and the Secular Coalition for America Lobby Day
• Define Medical Neglect to Include Faith-Healing-Only Treatments for Children

American Ethical Union Annual Assembly
The AEU Annual Assembly is an opportunity to gather with Ethical Culturists around the country.  This year, the Assembly will be held in Albany, NY and the ethical action theme is criminal justice.  The dates are June 16-19,2012 and I'll be sharing more information with you as I get it.

Closing Words
Jone Johnson Lewis, Leader of the Northern Virginia Ethical Society shares a quote from A. Eustace Haydon, one-time Leader of the Chicago Society:

"The Humanist rarely loses the feeling of at-homeness in the universe. The Humanist is conscious of being an earth-child. There is a mystic glow in this sense of belonging. Memories of one’s long ancestry still linger in muscle and nerve, in brain and germ cell. On moonlit nights, in the renewal of life in the springtime, before the glory of a sunset, in moments of swift insight, people feel the community of their own physical being with the body of mother earth. Rooted in millions of years of planetary history, the earthling has a secure feeling of being at home, and a consciousness of pride and dignity as a bearer of the heritage of the ages."

Yours in Ethical Community,

Susan Rose, Leader
Ethical Society Without Walls