Who: Dr. Dan Ellsberg
What: free lecture
Where: IU Auditorium
When: Friday April 4th 1PM-3PM.
He will take start with a question and answer session, then lecture on the Pentagon Papers as well as relating whistle-blowing to the current situation in Iraq and Iran. He will also end with another question and answer session.
About Dr. Ellsberg:
Dan Ellsberg is famous for releasing the Pentagon papers during the Vietnam War. This action is known as whistle-blowing. The Pentagon Papers were a primary reason the war in Vietnam ended. Since the end of Vietnam, Dr. Ellsberg has continued his role as a moral conscience to the world. He has been widely heard as a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, etc. In 2004, he started the Truth-Telling Project with “A call to Patriotic Whistle blowing". The goal of this project is to reach the current government insiders, lawyers, etc. to release the truth about government cover-up and lies before the next war. Dr. Ellsberg wrote many books and has received many awards including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation award (in 2005) and Right Livelihood Award, known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" which he recognized '"for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to a movement to free the world from the risk of nuclear war."'
This event is sponsored by the IUSA and IUB ACLU!
