A public lecture by Scottish scholar-activist, Alastair McIntosh, will open the national Quaker annual meeting at the University of Prince Edward Island on Sunday, August 16, at 7:00 p.m. The free talk is in Room 242, MacKinnon Auditorium of Don and Marion McDougall Hall. McIntosh's talk is titled “Decolonising Land and Soul: a Quaker Testimony.” McIntosh is known for the way he brings together theology, anthropology, and human ecology with the organization of citizen based campaigns that can save valued landscapes and human communities from industrial degradation. In 1991 he was part of a campaign that prevented the biggest road stone quarry in the world from being located on one of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. There he had support from Cape Breton Mi’Kmaq First Nations. In 2005 he travelled to Digby Neck to help on a campaign against a super-quarry proposal. He has written ‘Soil and Soul’ and has a book out shortly to join other publications. Holding a visiting professorship at Glasgow University, he has twice previously lectured at UPEI on land reform and liberation theology. The public is invited to worship with Quakers earlier that day (10:00 a.m.) in the same auditorium. Further information at quaker.ca or media@quaker.ca