Members come from Alameda and Contra Costa counties and further reaches of the San Francisco Bay area and northern California. We share beliefs in free speech, democratic institutions which respect minority rights, separation of church and state, and the need to live in this world and to look to human experience and abilities to solve human problems.
Some members find that our meetings, potlucks and other events have become key parts of their lives.
We enjoy like-minded friends and sources of learning that we find few other places. Other members and subscribers simply welcome the words in the mailbox that speak to their interests and concerns and help them feel less alone among the superstitious majority. After key members moved away and others got busy, we had several years of low activity. We have built our numbers and activity since March 1996 so that we now have monthly newsletters and events and are again becoming one of the leaders among the too few and too small groups of freethinkers in northern California. Our dreams are much larger than our current size.