Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency w/ Lynne Jones OBE
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Join Lynne Jones for a discussion of her new book, Sorry for the Inconvenience But This Is an Emergency, at the Trouble Club.
In the 1980s, Lynne Jones joined thousands of other women at Greenham Common to protest against nuclear weapons. Today she stands with Extinction Rebellion to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
Lynne will join us to share her compelling, ground-level account of the last five years of UK protests, exploring how and why ordinary citizens have adopted extraordinary methods to confront the climate and nature crises.
About the book
As floods and fires rage across the planet, ever more people are embracing nonviolent action to achieve political change. Can it work?
Doctor and aid worker Lynne Jones offers a compelling, ground-level account of the last five years of UK protests, exploring how and why ordinary citizens have adopted extraordinary methods to confront the climate and nature crises. Sharing her 1980s experiences opposing nuclear weapons at Greenham Common, and her journey in movements like Extinction Rebellion today, Jones reflects on public history and her personal story to unpack nonviolent protest in a world on the brink.
Can we learn from past movements? How should we communicate with those who disagree with us? What kind of disruption is most effective in Western democracies? Is property damage nonviolent? Is the law just? How important are direct interventions, boycotts and non-cooperation? What can indigenous campaigners of the Global South te
ach us?
A lifetime of activism has taught Jones that we all have more power than we realise. It’s time to use that power—before it’s too late.
About the author
Lynne Jones OBE is a child psychiatrist, WHO and UNICEF consultant, and author of acclaimed books including Outside the Asylum and Then They Started Shooting. BBC Radio, The New Statesman, the London Review of Books and O, The Oprah Magazine have featured her field diaries from conflict and disaster areas.
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