Since Dan’s passing, 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 and has inspired thousands of nonviolent activists.

During this webinar, his wife Patricia Ellsberg and fellow activists will share anecdotes about Dan’s participation in a wide variety of anti-nuclear and antiwar campaigns: Medea Benjamin (CodePink); Ken Butigan (jailed with Dan); Bob Eaton (draft resister) David Hartsough (close activist friend); Jon Hinck (Nevada test site); Tarak Kauff (Veterans for Peace action at White House); Marylia Kelly (Lawrence Livermore Labs); Don Mosley (caravan from South Carolina to Rocky Flats); Chet Tchozewski (Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant).

Moderators: Robert Levering (Executive 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 UMass/Amherst.