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Veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard-won successes in the climate change movement based on grassroots organizing. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become more deadly, the book describes a groundswell of action in which citizens of all ages, races and political stripes struggle to understand each other and the enormous challenge of climate change. They fight companies and governments willfully blind to the climate change dangers we face as a society.
A Quaker activist, facilitator, and teacher, Flanagan takes us through her environmental direct-action experiences and relationships with community leaders to understand how we can form coalitions to actually make a difference. Flanagan shows that “the illusion of separation”—the fallacy that humans can thrive in a dying world—is at the root of interlocking environmental crises. It’s often politicians and corporations who benefit by keeping the rest of us divided across lines of race, class, religion, and generation. In Common Ground, Flanagan argues that more than technology or elections, acting in solidarity with all life is humanity’s best hope for survival.

Local Event: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

Hampshire County

South Hadley

Massachusetts

Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is...

Veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard-won successes in the climate change movement...

Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

Eve Gutman

Hampshire

Hartford County

Jay Kenney

Hartford Metropolitan Area

Suffield

Connecticut

Enfield

Tolland County

Ellington-Somers

Granby-East Granby

Windsor Locks-East Windsor

Chris Dehnel

Stafford-Willington

Windsor

Tolland

South Windsor

Michael Lemanski

Simsbury

Downtown Northampton, Main Street 

This fall, downtown Northampton will become home to a citywide treasure hunt of miniature public art. Opening September 26–27 and remaining on view throughout October, Fun Sized: A Tiny Public Art Festival invites visitors to slow down, look closer, and rediscover downtown Northampton through fifteen miniature, site-specific artworks hidden throughout the city. Using a free printed or digital map, visitors will search for tiny murals, sculptures, installations, and unexpected artistic interventions tucked into overlooked corners and everyday spaces. Along the way, participants collect clues that lead to the festival's final hidden artwork—the Golden Moment.
The inaugural festival features work by local and regional artists: Adam O'Day, Chelsea Dupois, Cicely Carew, Dina Gjertsen, Erika Zekos, Eva Pushkova, Felipe Ortiz, Fred &amp; David Zinn, John Higby, M. Rudder, Maggie Nowinski, Mary Cleary, Michael Medeiros, Raishad Glover, Sally Curcio, and Scout Cuomo. Fun Sized presented by Bright Matter Studio.
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Local Event: Fun Sized Tiny Public Art Festival 

Northampton

Fun Sized Tiny Public Art Festival 

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Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

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7:00 PM

Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St, South Hadley, MA

Fun Sized Tiny Public Art Festival