April 24-30

Daniel Ellsberg Week

Co-sponsored by The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy & The RootsAction Education Fund

Co-sponsored by The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy & The RootsAction Education Fund

Daniel EllsbergA week of education and action to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing

Daniel Ellsberg became a whistleblower by giving the 7,000-page Pentagon Papers to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. Ellsberg’s subsequent trial on twelve felony counts, posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, leading to the convictions of several White House aides and figuring in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg has been a lecturer, scholar, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, wrongful U.S. interventions and the urgent need for principled whistleblowing.

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A week of education and action to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing

Daniel Ellsberg — the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who has been an inspiring activist for peace since the early 1970s — recently wrote a public letter disclosing that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with a prognosis that he has only three to six months to live.

Join us for “Daniel Ellsberg Week” to celebrate the life’s work of Daniel Ellsberg, to take action in support of whistleblowers and peacemakers, and to call on state and local governments around the country to honor the spirit of difficult truth-telling with a commemorative week, April 24-30.

Daniel Ellsberg became a whistleblower by giving the 7,000-page Pentagon Papers to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. Ellsberg’s subsequent trial on twelve felony counts, posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, leading to the convictions of several White House aides and figuring in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg has been a lecturer, scholar, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, wrongful U.S. interventions and the urgent need for principled whistleblowing.

Use the toolkit below to choose some of the ways to participate in Daniel Ellsberg Week, helping to actively continue the powerful legacy of Daniel Ellsberg.

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“Wouldn’t you go to prison to help end this war?”
-Daniel Ellsberg

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My wish for you, my friends, is that at the end of your days you will feel as much joy and gratitude as I do now.
-Daniel Ellsberg

Watch videos featuring Daniel Ellsberg and about his legacy

The Defuse Nuclear War Podcast With Daniel Ellsberg

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Directed by Oscar-nominee Judith Ehrlich, the series explores the dangers of nuclear weapons and the politics that drive their existence. Hear firsthand accounts from Ellsberg about his time as a nuclear war planner for the U.S. military and learn hidden truth about realities of nuclear weapons. In episode 1, Daniel Ellsberg accounts the death toll and violent realities of nuclear war.

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