Welcome to Atheist Action Central.

Now that you're here, please take at least ONE action.


Below are actions relevant to everyone, regardless of your location, so please take the time to make a difference.

For specific country actions please click one of the flags below



If you have any actions to add or want to help please contact me at AtheistAction@aol.com

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Sign the Petition to Save Malak Ghorbany from Death by Public Stoning

"We, the undersigned, request your urgent help to prevent the inhumane torture and punishment to which Ms. Ghorbany has been sentenced." Click on link above for full details and to sign the petition.

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Sign the Petition to help Taslima Nareen

Honorary Associate Maryam Namazie has initiated an on-line petition in support of her fellow honorary associate Taslima Nareen, who is under threat from Islamic extremists in India. Please ensure you add your name.

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Sign the International Petition to remove sharia law from the Kurdistan constitution

A petition has been launched to remove sharia law from the Kurdistan constitution. Please sign the petition.

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Add your name to support the O Project

Do you believe that it you can live a good life without God and that believers and non believers should create alliances to tackle shared concerns? If so you can add you name to the following roll of support.

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Support the Brights - Do It By Letter

Be involved in writing letters to newspapers in response to articles to increase awareness of peoples views.

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Volunteer! Get Involved, with the Brights!

The Brights' Net is pursuing a large experiment in diffusing responsibility and seeking to accomplish substantive work of this movement by means of the Internet and volunteers. Please see if you can help.

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Assist the AtheistVolunteers.org

The Atheist Volunteers aim to correct the misconception that atheists are something like moral anarchists who have no desire for good, and aims to encourage volunteering and donating to atheist lead charities, to raise their profile and the benefit that such charities provide.

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Create a Pledge at PledgeBank

PledgeBank is free and easy to use. Once you've thought of something you'd like to do, just create a pledge which says "I'll do this, but only if x other people will do the same".

It can be done on a global scale or within a particular country.

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Learn More About Humanism

How can humanists be more effective at protecting secular government and gaining respectability for their point of view? Is it possible to bring the humanist movement into the mainstream?

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Promote Atheism using AskTheAtheists.com

This is an excellent site that you should promote, especially to any theists who want to understand atheists. The site has excellent questions and excellent answers.



You can also use it to help if you are having discussions with theists.

Here is a sample question:



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Visibly Promote Atheism and Freethinking

Evolve Fish has a large selection of reasonably priced emblems, stickers, buttons, pins, and much more. Buy something appropriate to you and make it visible. (I make nothing from this, just promoting them as I believe in their cause.)

Join the mailing list.

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Encourage others to read the books listed in Suggested Reading on the right

Lend the books to friends, family or colleagues, or buy them as gifts.

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Donate to the British Red Cross

The British Red Cross helps people all over the world, and have a clear position on being neutral with regards to religion. Read this.
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Donate to Amnesty International


If you ever needed motivation to support Amnesty International who work to support human rights worldwide, then this should motivate you...

The Vatican said there would be no more Catholic financing of Amnesty International after the organisation's decision to support abortions for women who had been raped or whose health was endangered by their pregnancy. A spokesman for the Vatican said "the Church teaches that the murder of a human being can never be justified"

Read the full article found via the National Secular Society

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Donate to the Richard Dawkins Foundation



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Support Doctors Opposing Circumcision for Religious Reasons

Those of you who are serious about protecting children from non-therapeutic circumcision have a unique opportunity to assist with a legal case in Oregon. An Oregon father, (an attorney), claims to be in the process of converting to Judaism and wants his now 12-year-old son, ‘Misha,’ of whom he has custody, circumcised against both the child’s and the natural mother’s express wishes.

Richard Dawkins summarised this the best when he said this is "religiously inspired child abuse."

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Help the Brights Movement get to the Next Level!

The Brights are looking to move ahead to a new level! Sometime next month the registration count of Brights will reach 30,000 and many are calling for services and actions! Please go to The Brights' Net to reach valuable current information -- presented in four "snapshots." You'll understand what's behind the request and hopefully you be as generous as you can during this March fund drive.

The Brights' Net asks for financial support only twice a year - at the equinoxes.

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Create a YouTube Video for The Blasphemy Challenge

The Rational Response Squad wants you to record a short message damning yourself to Hell and to upload it to YouTube. Make a statement, and help raise awareness.

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Order Growing Up In The Universe and support the Richard Dawkins Foundation

You can pre-order the Richard Dawkins Foundation (RDF) DVD that will be released on 30th April. All proceeds go to the RDF.





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Check the BBC "Have Your Say" section

There are often topics related to religion and atheism on the BBC site under the category of "Have Your Say". You can add your comment and have your say.