ABOUT: Michael De Dora
Contributions
Announcing My Resignation
June 5, 2017After nearly a decade of volunteering and working for the Center for Inquiry, I am leaving the organization on June 7.
CFI Advocacy Update — May 2017
June 1, 2017Welcome to the Office of Public Policy’s monthly Advocacy Update. The Office of Public Policy (OPP) is the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy arm of the Center for Inquiry (CFI). Our mandate is to advocate for reason, science, and humanist values at all levels of government — statehouses, Congress, the Administration, and the United Nations. This newsletter will update …
CFI Joins Petition Urging Denmark to Repeal Blasphemy Law
May 15, 2017A coalition of writers, publishers, academics, and human rights advocates today issued a petition urging the Danish Parliament to approve a bill (L 170) that would repeal the blasphemy ban in section 140 of the Danish criminal code, punishing “Any person who, in public, ridicules or insults the dogmas or worship of any lawfully existing …
Coalition to Congress: Protect Foreign Assistance for Women and Girls
May 2, 2017The Center for Inquiry (CFI) was amongst 124 organizations to issue a joint statement calling on Congress and other officials to support a robust U.S. foreign assistance budget in the Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations process, specifically regarding women and girls around the world. In]]><![CDATA[our statement, we wrote: Each year when Congress budgets and appropriates federal …
CFI Advocacy Update — April 2017
May 1, 2017Welcome to the Office of Public Policy’s monthly Advocacy Update. The Office of Public Policy (OPP) is the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy arm of the Center for Inquiry (CFI). Our mandate is to advocate for reason, science, and humanist values at all levels of government — statehouses, Congress, the Administration, and the United Nations. This newsletter will update …