Ed Buckner, president of the American Atheists, wrote me stating the AA will most likely be holding their 2011 convention in Des Moines!!!

AA is in the final stages of negotiating a contract with a hotel to host and things look VERY favorable. So favorable, in fact, that Ed Buckner is coming to Des Moines at the end of July and wants to meet with YOU, and any other atheist, humanist, secularist, freethinker, etc. who is available.

The meeting is likely going to be Monday, July 26th at 7:00pm at the Embassy Suites on the River at 101 E. Locust, Des Moines. If you're available, he wants YOU there to tell him how this will impact the secular community in Iowa and, most importantly, how YOU can help.

As with any news of this size, any individual help and input you could provide to Mr. Buckner on Monday, July 26th would be just awesome.

More details to come as AA negotiations proceed and the exact meeting room on July 26th is known. Score one for Iowa!

Scott Fedler
Chair, Iowa Secularists

Coolness. We may have to send a boarding-and-drinking-and-pillaging party to this.

If you're coming, Ed would like to hear from you directly so he knows approximately how many people will be coming. His contact information is:

Ed Buckner
President (retiring soon)
American Atheists
www.atheists.org
ebuckner@atheists.org
908-499-9200 (cell)
770-803-5353 (office/fax)