Phil Booth, National Coordinator, and Matty Mitford, Local Groups Coordinator will be coming to Reading this month for a meeting of all NO2ID groups in the Thames Valley, or nearby, area.

The meeting is open to everyone who wants fight against ID cards and the database state in their area.

DATE & TIME: Tues 28th October, 7pm

VENUE: At Reading Quaker Meeting House, 2 Church Street, Reading, Berks, RG1 2SB

We hope to establish some new local groups on the day, and will be previewing upcoming campaign activities.

• Come and learn how to set up a group and campaign in your area;
• Meet other campaigners and share ideas;
• Find out where the ID scheme and related initiatives are heading;
• Find out what you can do about it.

We don't distribute supporter's data to *anyone*, so no local group will know you are there until you choose to contact them. If you want to keep in touch with others, please join the mailing list of a local group near you.

Update: Now on Facebook.

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I've just found out about this via Facebook; annoyingly there doesn't seem to be much of a presence for real people, so here's an actual public blog entry that you can link to for everyone, and everything.

The Atheist Bus Campaign began thanks to readers of The Guardians Comment Is Free blog. Comedy writer Ariane Sherine wrote an article in June about the Christian adverts running on London buses, which linked to a website saying non-believers would burn in hell for all eternity.

Sherine joked that perhaps atheists reading her blog could each donate 5 to fund a reassuring counter-advert saying:

Theres probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

She explained that the word probably was included so that the advert would be allowed to run.

Hundreds of Cif readers then offered to contribute to the theoretical ad, including political blogger Jon Worth, who set up a Pledgebank page so readers could register their support. After just six weeks, 877 people had signed up, and another 262 pledged in response to Sherine's follow-up piece on The Guardian site.

The British Humanist Association has kindly offered to lend its official support to the proposed advert should the campaign launch officially. The BHA will also be administering all donations.

CBS Outdoor, the bus advertising company, have now said that they will run the atheist advert on 30 buses for 4 weeks across London if we raise just 5,500, which means we need 1,100 people to donate 5 each.

This will be the first ever atheist advertising campaign in the UK, and will launch on October 21 2008. Donations will be collected via a JustGiving page, details of which will be posted here soon.

Please join this group to show your support for the campaign. You can also email Ariane directly at ariane@arianesherine.com with Atheist Bus in the subject line to register for updates.

Thank you.

Personally, I feel that this cause is well worth a fiver. Who's with me?

Tickets: £16.50

De La Warr Pavilion
Marina
Bexhill on Sea
East Sussex TN40 1DP

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DeathBoy will be on around 8:15pm

From 1st September 2008, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd has generously agreed to match, pound for pound, any *new* income that NO2ID receives. Which means that for every pound you give from 1st September NO2ID will receive TWO pounds to spend campaigning against the ID scheme and database state.

Please send your donation by cheque to our office (please mark your envelope 'JRRT'):

The NO2ID Campaign
Box 412
19-21 Crawford Street
London W1H 1PJ

Or you can donate by credit card or via PayPal using the 'Donate' button on our website, http://www.no2id.net (left hand column)

Double your money offers like this don't come along very often so please, dig deep - encourage your friends, family and colleagues to make a donation. With your help we can stop this.

While you're at it, why not join the campaign, join a local group and take the NO2ID Pledge?