Author Talk with Eileen Flanagan - Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation
Join us for an author talk with veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan. In her new book Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation, Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing.
As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, the book describes a groundswell of action in which citizens of all ages, races and political stripes struggle to understand each other and the enormous challenges we face fighting companies and governments willfully blind to the climate change dangers we face as a society.
Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning author, speaker, and leader of spiritually-grounded activism. She has confronted corporate CEOs, prayed in their lobbies, and been arrested alongside Indigenous water protectors, interfaith clergy, and fellow Quakers. With Earth Quaker Action Team, she has played key leadership roles in three climate campaigns, including pressuring PNC Bank to pause its financing of mountaintop removal coal mining. With Choose Democracy, she has helped tens of thousands of people learn peacekeeping skills and nonviolent strategies for change.
Ms. Flanagan will also be joining us to lead Non Violent Protest Training: How to to be a Streetwise & Steady Peacekeeper on Saturday, March 28th, 10:30am-1:30pm. Come learn how to participate in protests in a peaceful, thoughtful, and safe way.
