Monthly on-line Authoritarianism Reading Group. Next Meeting November 5.

Monthly online Authoritarianism book group sponsored by UFM P&SC Committee in response to the Quaker Call to Action to protect our democracy. 

Our book club will be gathering on Sunday Nov 5th at 1pm via zoom to discuss the book, "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twenty Century," by Timothy Snyder. A short book with important lessons and definitions about authoritarianism and what to watch out for and do in these times.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/2065476449

This book has a new extended version that offers twenty lessons and discussion on the Russia/Ukraine war so if you have not read it please look for the extended version ("On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition): Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine") . If you have read the book consider watching this interview with the main points discussed in the revised edition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrWr1Guwck

Hope to see you then!

Eva Otto

University Friends Meeting Clerk, Peace and Social Concerns she/her

Or absorb ideas on video

WEF Timothy Snyder on why Ukraine has to win in the war for democracy

Timothy Snyder speaks about the graphic edition of On Tyranny

Frontline Interview series Timothy Snyder: Putin and the Presidents

Part of a series of interviews with different specialists.

Ukraine from propaganda to reality

2015 lecture at Chicago HUmanities