Local author Eileen Flanagan will be at the store to sign her book Common Ground on Sunday, December 14th from 1 - 3 pm. Make sure to stop in for conversation and community
About the Book
In Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together inspiring stories of grassroots organizing against the huge companies most responsible for climate change. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly and widespread, the book shows that ordinary people can build powerful movements for change when they find common ground and take action together.
A Quaker activist, facilitator, and teacher, Flanagan takes us on a personal journey through her own direct-action experiences as well as conversations with community leaders to understand how we can form coalitions to actually make a difference. Flanagan shows that “the illusion of separation”—the fallacy that we are separate from each other and the Earth that sustains us—is at the root of interlocking environmental crises and that it’s often politicians and corporations who benefit by keeping the rest of us divided across lines of race, class, religion, and generation. In Common Ground, Flanagan argues that more than technology or even elections, acting in solidarity with all life is humanity’s best hope for survival.
About the Author
Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning author, speaker, and leader of spiritually-grounded activism. A member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, 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 in Appalachia. With Choose Democracy, she has helped tens of thousands of people learn peacekeeping skills and nonviolent strategies for change. The first in her Irish working-class family to go to college, she earned a BA from Duke and an MA from Yale.