Why Thoreau Still Matters: Lessons on Environmentalism & Civil Disobedience

200 years after Henry David Thoreaus birth in Concord, MA, a distinguished panel considers Thoreau's lessons for today's world. Explore how Thoreau's ideas have informed 21st-century civil disobedience and contemporary conversations about humans relationships with the natural world.

Panelists include artist and filmmaker Paul Turano (Wander, Wonder, Wilderness), Laura Dassow Walls, author of the new biography Henry David Thoreau: A Life, memoirist Howard Axelrod (The Point of Vanishing), Maria Madison, president of The Robbins House: Concords African American History site, and Rev. Fred Small, Minister for Climate Justice at Arlington Street Church.

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