Meeting Our Challenges TOUR, 2022-23
At a tough time for the U.S., movement elder George Lakey offers ideas, hope and a lifetime of hard-won experience. - “A civil rights legend” – The Guardian
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Join Pace e Bene and George Lakey on December 14 for a special talk as he discusses his new book “Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice”
DATE/TIME: December 14, 2022 at 4pm Pacific/5pm Mountain/6pm Central/7pm Eastern. Lasts 1.5 hours.
From his first arrest in the Civil Rights era to his most recent one during a climate justice march at 83, George Lakey sustains the mission of building a better world through movements for justice. In this tour he’ll tell the “how.”
Despite knife threats and a beating by political attackers, Lakey found nonviolent ways to continue the struggle.
In his new book Lakey draws readers into the center of history-making events, telling often serious stories with playfulness and intimacy.
He describes the personal, the political, and theoretical -- coming out as bisexual to his Quaker community while known as a church leader and family man, taking action against the war in Vietnam by delivering medical supplies through the naval blockade in the South China Sea, and applying his academic study of nonviolent resistance by creating tactics for direct action campaigns.
Lakey shows how to find hope in even the hardest times through creative, joyful activism. He knows strategy to use polarization to win, and tactics that build the power of progressive movements. Invite him to your town, city, or school
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Available soon from Seven Stories Press
Please preorder George's memoir, Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice, through your local bookstore, from Bookshop (link here), or on Amazon (link here).
COST: Suggested donation $30. Register below.
“George Lakey stands out for the sheer range of his contributions to peace and justice. His upbeat, soul-driven spirit underlies it all, as you’ll catch in this revealing memoir.”
