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Activist/Authors FRANCIS MOORE LAPPE and ADAM EICHEN on Anti-Democracy Crisis at the Boston Public Library

February 15, 2018 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

FRANCIS MOORE LAPPE, legendary activist and author of Diet for a Small Planet, and organizer-scholar ADAM EICHEN team up to examine the roots of our current anti-democracy crisis, the events that drove us to this moment, and how Americans are uniting in response. They explore how people from all backgrounds, committed to an array of social-justice causes, are creating what they call the “Democracy Movement”―a hopeful push for historic change.

Lappé, author of the multimillion-selling Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Eichen is a Democracy Fellow at the Small Planet Institute, cofounded by Lappé, and a board member of Democracy Matters, and he served as deputy communications director for Democracy Spring. Lappé and Eichen, separated by generations, are united in the movement for a living democracy and work together in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Details

Date:
February 15, 2018
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://www.bpl.org/programs/author_series.htm?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D126185662

Organizer

Boston Public Library
Phone:
6175365400
Email:
ask@bpl.org
Website:
www.bpl.org

Venue

Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square
700 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116 United States
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Phone:
617-536-5400
Website:
http://www.bpl.org

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.