Re: Dealings With The AFA
Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 5:21 pm
@two dogs - your post has me looking for a Dire Straits song, and it ain't Twistin' By The Pool.
Money for Nothing?Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:21 pm @two dogs - your post has me looking for a Dire Straits song, and it ain't Twistin' By The Pool.
To be fair, for the 12 months ended 31 January 2023, the AFA had assets of $166,823.57, of which $77,212.21 was in shares from a bequest, so they had only around $90,000 in readily accessible funds leading up to said conference.two dogs wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 7:14 pm ...
The bastards were too tight-arsed to spend $15,000 to sponsor the Secularism Australia Conference 2023[ (yet claiming that they were a sponsor), seemingly reluctant to do fuck all with their considerable funds to achieve their aims and objectives?!
There's the bar set.Dear Friend,
On Wednesday, American Atheists announced a bold new plan—one that clarifies our objectives, outlines the strategies we’ll use to achieve them, and defines the values that will guide us there.
This organization has been around for more than six decades now. Of course, a lot has happened in that time: our country has changed, and our nonreligious community has grown. So, too, must we change and grow.
When we began this year-long strategic planning process, I wanted us to be intentional about doing things differently. As a woman, an atheist, and a longtime LGBTQ+ advocate, it was important to me that we engage a group of voices as diverse as our secular community. We solicited feedback from members, community leaders, activists and advocacy partners. But we didn’t shy away from talking to the critics and detractors that weren’t in our corner or even in the same room.
The result of all that work is so much more than words on a page.
In the end, we developed a comprehensive strategy for the future with the input of more than 34,000 people, hundreds of focus group participants, and dozens of organizations through surveys, over 200 stakeholder interviews, and conversations across all levels of American Atheists. When we looked at the data and listened to those voices, the message was loud and clear: We must do more to meet the challenges of today because the stakes have never been higher.
The ideological divide in our country is reaching a tipping point. Threats and acts of political violence are on the rise. Trust in public institutions is at an all-time low. Misinformation is rampant. People, including those in positions of great power, are abandoning the very notion of democracy in favor of theocracy. The wall between religion and government is crumbling. And all of this is happening now and happening fast.
These are difficult times, but with a renewed drive and a clear direction, American Atheists stands ready to lead the way.
Here's the most recent update on my quest to obtain the minutes of the AFA's 2024 AGM, held on the 22nd of March 2024.two dogs wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:18 pm ...
I've endured this shit for at least 2022, 2023, and 2024, not receiving the minutes I requested until over two months after the AGMs, despite the AFA's Constitution stating that they must be recorded within one month!
Karen is a lovely, kind-hearted person who has been the AFA Secretary for decades. When I was on the AFA CoM, I recall her indicating, probably circa 2015, that she'd like to be relieved of that role by the end of 2017. Sadly, no effort has apparently been made since then to make that happen.
You'd think that if she repeatedly failed to fulfil her constitutional duties, the CoM would have some concerns, but apparently not.
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