{"id":42354,"date":"2023-03-31T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=42354"},"modified":"2023-03-31T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:36:11","slug":"announcing-daniel-ellsberg-week-for-education-and-action-to-honor-peacemaking-and-whistleblowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/announcing-daniel-ellsberg-week-for-education-and-action-to-honor-peacemaking-and-whistleblowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing &#8216;Daniel Ellsberg Week&#8217; \u2013 for Education and Action To Honor Peacemaking and Whistleblowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From <a href=\"https:\/\/RootsAction\">RootsAction<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg helped to end the Vietnam War when he bravely provided the Pentagon Papers to media outlets in 1971. Ever since then, he has been a&nbsp;tireless and inspiring&nbsp;advocate for peace and prevention of nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>During the last few weeks, widespread heartfelt tributes followed Dan\u2019s public letter disclosing that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with a prognosis that he has only three to six months to live.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now,&nbsp;we want to invite you to participate in Daniel Ellsberg Week, April 24 to 30. No matter where you live, there are many options for how you can be part of this&nbsp;grassroots initiative, which RootsAction is launching with the Defuse Nuclear War coalition.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/T05edd0fd-d295-46aa-b3bc-0cde280f9e41\/acd21df2-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\"><b>For details on how to join in with this &quot;week of education and action to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing,&quot; click here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possibilities include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Ask your city council, county commission, town council or other elected body to issue a proclamation for Daniel Ellsberg Week. (<a HREF=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/T6993474b-c278-4864-98f1-c0f7bb734cb5\/acd21df2-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\">Sample language is here.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li> Share Dan Ellsberg\u2019s articles, interviews and videos on the&nbsp;<a HREF=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/T1e243d65-6c79-4b5f-829e-df5b76adaf9d\/acd21df2-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\">Daniel Ellsberg Week webpage<\/a>&nbsp;via email and social media.<\/li>\n<li>Urge the appropriate local government body or agency to name a street, highway, plaza, square, park, library or school after Daniel Ellsberg.<\/li>\n<li>Organize a virtual or on-the-ground seminar to teach and learn about the&nbsp;<a HREF=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/T09a908e2-44b3-4e01-8be6-a9fc929ae4b5\/acd21df2-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\">vast work of Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>, including his latest book&nbsp;<a HREF=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/Tc698df2c-1738-45eb-8888-d1e641772e34\/acd21df2-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\"><i>The Doomsday Machine<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Organize a vigil, picket line or other protest \u2013 in honor of Daniel Ellsberg and his enduring legacy \u2013 against war and the nuclear arms race.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> As you get ready for Daniel Ellsberg Week,&nbsp;please let us know&nbsp; \u2013 via email to&nbsp;<a HREF=\"https:\/\/default.salsalabs.org\/Td356bd95-f964-4e3f-a426-95397592563b\/acd21df2-31ce-11e7-960b-0a8abee05f34\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\">info@rootsaction.org<\/a>&nbsp; \u2013 &nbsp;what you\u2019re planning and how we can help&nbsp;to spread the word across the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From RootsAction Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg helped to end the Vietnam War when he bravely provided the Pentagon Papers to media outlets in 1971. Ever since then, he has been a&nbsp;tireless and inspiring&nbsp;advocate for peace and prevention of nuclear war. During the last few weeks, widespread heartfelt tributes followed Dan\u2019s public letter disclosing that he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-42354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42356,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42354\/revisions\/42356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42354"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}