Eileen Flanagan presents Common Ground

In Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen 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. Flanaganargues that more than technology or even elections, acting in solidarity with all life is humanity’s best hope for survival.The book includes a foreword by internationally acclaimed South African activist Kumi Naidoo, President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and former head of Greenpeace International and Amnesty International.

Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning Quaker author, public speaker, and leader of spiritually-grounded climate activism. As board chair of Earth Quaker Action Team, she helped develop and implement the strategy that successfully pressured one of the largest banks in the U.S. to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining. Later, as EQAT campaign director, she played a key role in launching the global campaign against Vanguard, the world’s largest investor in fossil fuels. Ahead of the 2020 election, she became the Trainings Coordinator of Choose Democracy, which trained nearly 10,000 people in nonviolent strategies to prevent a coup. The first in her Irish working-class family to go to college, she earned a BA from Duke and an MA from Yale.

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