The topic for this meeting is Henry David Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience and the insights it can provide into the right we all have to protest as citizens.  Written in 1849, following a night in Concord jail for refusing to pay his poll tax in protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War, Thoreau’s central claim is that the individual’s conscience to protest injustice outranks their duty to obey the law;  a citizen’s first loyalty is to what is right, not to the state.

Here are links to Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience (as a pdf); and as an audio file, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.

Please note the change to our usual venue.

This event is free to attend, but we welcome any donations, which help with our running costs.