Thursday, April 9, 2026
Celia Bookshop
102 Park Ave
Swarthmore, PA
Veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together inspiring stories of grassroots organizing against the huge companies most responsible for climate change. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly and widespread, the book shows that ordinary people can build powerful movements for change when they find common ground and take action together. Common Ground has been endorsed by globally known climate leaders and academics, as well as Indigenous and other frontline leaders.
Eileen Flanagan is an award-winning author, speaker, and leader of spiritually-grounded activism. She has confronted corporate CEOs, prayed in their lobbies, and been arrested alongside Indigenous water protectors, interfaith clergy, and fellow Quakers. With Earth Quaker Action Team, she has played key leadership roles in three climate campaigns, including pressuring PNC Bank to pause its financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. With Choose Democracy, she has helped tens of thousands of people learn peacekeeping skills and nonviolent strategies for change. The first in her Irish working-class family to go to college, she earned a BA from Duke and an MA from Yale.