Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, Nonviolent Activist

Daniel Ellsberg arrested at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory protesting design of nuclear weapons, 2019.

Zoom webinar, Wednesday, August 9th, 7 p.m. ET

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Since Daniel Ellsberg’s passing on June 16 of this year, dozens of news stories and commentaries have focused primarily on his role as whistleblower and the release of the Pentagon Papers. Missing from these accounts has been an appreciation of the decades of Dan's active engagement in antiwar and antinuclear campaigns throughout the country – and the world – during which time he was arrested more than 80 times.

During this webinar, held on the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, his spouse Patricia Ellsberg along with fellow activists will share anecdotes about Dan's participation in a wide variety of anti-nuclear and antiwar campaigns: David Hartsough (arrested with Dan several dozen times); Don Mosley (Nevada nuclear test site); Marylia Kelly (Lawrence Livermore Labs); Chet Tchozewski (Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant); Tarak Keuff (fast at White House); Don Hinck (Greenpeace antinuclear actions); Bob Eaton (Vietnam era draft resister); Ken Butigan (multiple arrests with Dan).

Moderators: Robert Levering (Exec. Producer, The Movement and the “Madman”) and Linda Yarr (George Washington University)

Ellsberg’s life and legacy are reminders that individual acts of moral courage depend on examples set by others, and they have the potential to spark more, far into the future. As Ellsberg often said, “Civil courage is contagious.” Christian Appy, Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

See Ken Butigan’s remembrance here

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