George Lakey speaks on HOW WE WIN: Nonviolent Direct Action
Join us for an evening with George Lakey, who draws on 6 decades of experience with successful non-violent direct action campaigns to explain how campaigns can become building blocks for movements that can transform an unjust society.
Hear about a variety of activist tools used to build powerful movements that won victories despite sometimes-violent opposition. In addition to strategy and tactics, Lakey describes best practices for fostering cooperative, inclusive leadership and unity with diversity.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
6:30pm: Doors open. Tea & coffee and snacks will be provided. We invite you to bring cookies or other finger food to share.
7-9pm: Territorial acknowledgement, followed by Interactive Talk with ample time for Q&A
WHERE: Grandview Church, 1803 East 1st Avenue Vancouver, BC. Unceded Coast Salish Territories.
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This event is co-sponsored by Streams of Justice and Extinction Rebellion Vancouver.
This event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the Coast Sallish peoples: the səlil̓wətaʔɬ Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
More about George Lakey:
George Lakey is touring his Brand-new book which came out Nov, 2018: "HOW WE WIN: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning." https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/how-we-win/
(Books will be available for purchase.)
He recently retired from Swarthmore College where he was Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change. He created and managed the Global Nonviolent Action Database research project (nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu) that includes over 1100 campaigns from nearly 200 countries.
Lakey also held teaching posts at Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents, and founded and for fifteen years directed Training for Change. In 2010 he was named “Peace Educator of the Year” and published his authoritative text on adult education, Facilitating Group Learning(Jossey-Bass). Each of his ten books has been about change and how to get it, including Viking Economics (Melville House, 2016) and his most recent, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning (Melville House, 2018).
He has supported a number of movements, co-leading a sailing ship with medical aid to Vietnam in defiance of the U.S. war, campaigning with others in the LGBTQ community, organizing Men Against Patriarchy, and leading a statewide cross-race, cross-class coalition to fight back against Reagan. In 2009 Lakey co-founded Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT.org), to build a just and sustainable economy through nonviolent direct action campaigns. The group won its first campaign, forcing PNC Bank to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. In that campaign, while in his seventies Lakey was arrested, and also led a 200-mile march.
His first arrest was for a nonviolent civil rights sit-in, he has served as an unarmed bodyguard for human rights defenders in Sri Lanka, and in March 2018 he was arrested in a campaign demanding that a utility Power Local Green Jobs.
Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT.org).
Columnist for "Living Revolution"
Global Nonviolent Action Database (http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/)
