Why Thoreau Still Matters: Lessons on Environmentalism & Civil Disobedience

When:
Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017 6:30p -
9:30p

Where:
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington Street
Boston, MA

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FREE

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Event website:
http://legacy.wbur.org/community/events/2017/08/21/why-thoreau-still-matters-lessons-on-environmentalism-civil-disobedience

200 years after Henry David Thoreau’s birth in Concord, Massachusetts, a distinguished panel will consider Thoreau’s lessons for today’s world.


Christopher Lydon, host of Open Source, will moderate the discussion as the panel explores how Thoreau’s ideas have informed 21st-century civil disobedience and contemporary conversations about humans’ relationships with the natural world.


Panelists will include:


Artist and filmmaker Paul Turano (“Wander, Wonder, Wilderness”)
Laura Dassow Walls, author of the new biography “Henry David Thoreau: A Life”
Memoirist Howard Axelrod (“The Point of Vanishing”)
Maria Madison, president of The Robbins House: Concord’s African American History site
Rev. Fred Small, Minister for Climate Justice at Arlington Street Church.
This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

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