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It’s Daniel Ellsberg Week: April 24-30
Defund Nuclear & RootsAction Education Fund

SAN FRANCISCO (April 24, 2023) — This week, in towns and cities across the nation, people are honoring Bay Area resident Dan Ellsberg — a whistleblower who risked a lifetime in prison for releasing 7,000 pages of secret documents that exposed Pentagon and White House lies about the ongoing war on Vietnam.

Co-sponsored by Defund Nuclear, The RootsAction Education Fund, and the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy, Daniel Ellsberg Week encourages Americans to Read Articles, Watch Videos, and tune into the Daniel Ellsberg Podcast.

Here are links to some archived articles by, and about, Ellsberg:

• The Ellsberg Archive Project, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Living on a Deadline in the Nuclear Age., Daniel Ellsberg
  • Daniel Ellsberg’s website, Daniel Ellsberg
  • ‘You’ll Be Hearing From Me as Long as I’m Here,’ Daniel Ellsberg Vows After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Common Dreams
  • My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh
  • Things to Learn from Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson
  • 50th Anniversary of the Pentagon Papers Release – 6/13/21, Ellsberg.net
  • The Man Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers Is Scared, New York Times
  • On Nuclear Annihilation and Other Topics: A Talk With Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Common Dreams
  • To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles – Eliminate Them, The Nation
  • The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, book

And here are some video links:

• Daniel Ellsberg Interview– March 23, 2023, CNN
  • The Most Dangerous Man in America, Documentary
  • Pentagon Papers at 50 – Daniel Ellsberg on Risking Life in Jail to Expose U.S. Lies • About Vietnam War, Democracy Now!
  • Slash the Pentagon Budget in Half and Abolish ICBMs: Dan Ellsberg on How to Avoid Nuclear Armageddon, Democracy Now!
  • Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg, The Ellsberg Archive Project
  • The Defuse Nuclear War Podcast with Daniel Ellsberg, Defuse Nuclear War