George Lakey to tour UK

Leading US Quaker activist to start a speaking tour of England and Scotland

by Symon Hill 6th July 2012

  A leading US Quaker activist is about to begin a speaking tour of England and Scotland. George Lakey, who has trained thousands of people in nonviolent direct action in five continents, will speak at ten venues in July.  In the 1960s, George Lakey joined the civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam war. He was a founder member of the Movement for a New Society, which promoted revolutionary change through nonviolent means. He was later an unarmed bodyguard for human rights campaigners in Sri Lanka, and was smuggled across the border to work with activists in Burma.