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Atheists Meet Up

Be persistant. Most schools have strict regulations about posting such things, and respecting other posters as well.

Let the administration know about it. Have a school paper? Try putting in an advert.
 
Shame them. Write a letter to the editor of the school paper about how those who rip your posters down are un-Christian at heart. Throw in a bit about Samaritans.
 
arcticpenguin said:
Shame them. Write a letter to the editor of the school paper about how those who rip your posters down are un-Christian at heart. Throw in a bit about Samaritans.
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I could only imagine the response:

"We were only performing our Christian duty and saving the souls of the unsaved [insert Christian Philosogarble/Jesus-y stuff here]..."
 
Typical. We had a story in one of the little free newsletter papers in town, and all the christians wrote in and complained viciously. Jerks.

Put a notice on the posters...

"This poster approved by the school admin (or whatever), and anyone caught ripping it down will punished accordingly...charged for cost of materials and labor"

Something like that.

Advertise where they can't rip it down too. Someone mentioned the school paper.

Make up some flyers and hand them out to people, even if it is just a slip of paper. Stick them on car windows...

Maybe call it a naturalist meeting too, and put all atheists, skeptics, etc. welcome.
 
This shows you how much work needs to be done at your school re: educating people. How's that for irony? Often, people genuinely do not know what/who an atheist really is. I grew up being brainwashed that atheists are evil. Thus, I had an irrational fear of anything associated with that word.

Please do go through all the Administrative channels in getting your poster approved for posting and find out what the procedures are if they get torn down, and if there has been any problem with that for other groups. Also emphasize positive things in your posters such as intellectual discussions and debates, any community service your group performs, and so on. Be visible personally. Let people know who you are and what you stand for so that they can see you are a "regular" person with good values.

And please keep us posted (ar, ar) on your progress. I think what you are doing is important.
:)
 
I put up flyers for a t'ai chi ch'uan club that I was trying to start up, and those got ripped down or covered over. I didn't even include the t'ai chi ch'uan diagram on it (see my avatar) so people wouldn't mistakengly think it was a religion club. All I had on it was that it is a Chinese martial art, and two line drawings of people in certian martial postures of kicks and strikes.

Ah well!
 
At UCSD, the Gay/Lesbian/Etc. association had problems with their event flyers being taken down, presumably by xian groups, so they starting using sidewalk chalk instead. It's probably cheaper than printing flyers, anyway.

Of course, that only works if it isn't raining.
 
That a religious person or persons opposed to atheism took the posters down is a plausible conclusion, but it shouldn't be a foregone one. I see the usual suspects (those Xians!) have been rounded up already.

Back in college, my band used to advertise our gigs with campus posters. At one point, a lot of them were being torn down. We suspected a certain rival band. It turns out it was an individual who had a completely unrelated grudge against our bassist.

Anyhow, you should keep your eye out for bulletin boards on campus that are protected behind a locked glass case or that are unlikely to be left unattended for long. Ask the secretaries of academic departments if you can place your poster in their department's reception area or lounge. Students (and faculty) go in and out of there all day long, and they're probably in a more intellectually receptive frame of mind than when they see your poster on a toilet stall or a tree.
 
QuarkChild said:
At UCSD, the Gay/Lesbian/Etc. association had problems with their event flyers being taken down, presumably by xian groups.
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People seem to hate gays and lesbians anyway. True, the current resistance is probably religion based, but even people who no longer go to church may still hate them as an opportunity to vent. I wouldn't assume it was by Christian groups.

edit: d*mn you, ceo_esq. You beat me to it. :)
 
I took a poster like this down from a college campus once.

It wasn't because I disagreed with the people who were meeting.

It was because it was for a Gay and Lesbian rally and part of the directions included "Enter in Rear" and I thought it was hilarious.

Maybe you accidentally printed something funny?
 
bewareofdogmas said:
I put "See you at the pole" on them.
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Heh heh...Oops, sorry, that was me. I took that one. It's so people know how to get to G6's party during TAM2.
 
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