Paul Garver

Paul Garver lives in Acton, Massachusetts (almost as close to Walden Pond as Wen Stephenson) and regularly swims and walks there in company with the spirit of Henry David Thoreau. Like Stephenson, he and his wife Willy are members of the Open Meadow Zen sangha in Lexington, Massachusetts. Paul is a retired local and global labor activist, very active in political life and specifically in DSA. He agrees with Stephenson that only morally and spiritually grounded mass social movements are capable of transforming human society deeply enough to preserve the possibility of climate and social justice for future generations.