SPOKANE HUMANISTS

Humanist Focus Group
of the Inland Northwest

Third-Sunday Meetings Discontinued

For the past 15 years Spokane’s Humanist Focus Group has held regular Third-Sunday meetings at the Unitarian Universalist Church. The UU Church of Spokane now has a minister, Todd Eklof, who speaks to humanism, is sympathetic with our goals, and often schedules speakers on the same types of local, state, national, and international concerns that our humanist group schedules. Humanist Focus Group has agreed to discontinue regular meetings at the UU Church. You’re welcome to attend these meetings whether or not you are a church member and no one will pressure you to join. To get information on UU Church's monthly schedule, you may follow this link: UU Church Calendar. Humanist Focus Group will continue to hold Second-Saturday breakfast meetings at the Golden Corral.

Upcoming Humanist Focus Group Programs

Saturday, March 9, 2013, 8:00 am Breakfast, 8:45 Presentation
Breakfast at Golden Corral Buffet, 7117 N Division
Join fellow Humanist thinkers for breakfast and discussion following a presentation by Victoria Ann Thorpe on
" A Conversation About the Death Penalty"

Mother, teacher, human rights activist, Victoria Ann Thorpe is also the author of recently published book CAGES, the detailed story and documented re-telling of her sister's capital punishment trial that ended with a death penalty sentence.

Thorpe once supported the very system she now adamantly opposes, spending the majority of these days working for her sister's (Kerry Lyn Dalton) exoneration, education of the public to the gross failure and inhumane treatment of capital sentencing, interacting with Death Row residents and their families, and learning from the exonerated.

Ms Thorpe lived a conservative Christian lifestyle and had total blind faith in the criminal justice system until both women's lives were changed forever; February 1995 , without a body, without blood, no weapon, no crime scene, without even a person declared deceased -- Kerry Lyn Dalton was convicted and sentenced to death. Nearly 18 years later, Kerry is still surviving the Row, awaiting appeals.