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Accounts of my father's copying the Pentagon Papers rarely consider the impact of his exposure to the the tradition of nonviolent action and the Gandhian theory of conflict. What if we taught this in school? wagingnonviolence.org/2021/0…
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For anyone who placed hopes in the Sandinista victory in 1979 or resisted Reagan's contra war in the 1980s, this is unbearably sad. @OrbisBooks authors Fernando and Ernesto Cardenal broke with Ortega years ago. responsiblestatecraft.org/20…
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Very moving and inspiring program. Pentagon Papers 50th Anniversary piped.video/yMMC4lkPl-Y via @YouTube
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Wonderful that we got to spend this historic day together. 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. June 13 1971. @DanielEllsberg
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
50 Years Ago Today, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers Helped End the Vietnam War jacobinmag.com/2021/06/danie…
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Call me Ishmael.
‘A humpback whale tried to eat me’: A Cape Cod lobster diver was briefly trapped in the mouth of a whale trib.al/0UuqONL
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Jewish philosopher Martin Buber died June 13 1965. He taught that our own humanity is diminished to the extent that we treat others as objects rather than subjects.
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At Age 13, Creating the Pentagon Papers. Photocopies, at Least. - The New York Times nytimes.com/2018/01/28/nyreg…
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My father has organized his library around some of his preoccupations: catastrophe; genocide; doomsday; lies; bombing civilians, the problem of evil, etc. Pretty standard.
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‘I’ve never regretted doing it’: Daniel Ellsberg on 50 years since leaking the Pentagon Papers | Vietnam war | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2021/j…
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The Pentagon Papers first appeared in the @nytimes 50 years ago on June 13 1971. My part of the story began two years earlier, with reverberations that are still being felt.
"I clearly remember the first time I handled classified documents. That day in October 1969 stands out for other reasons, as it was also the first time I was allowed to handle a Xerox machine." THE PENTAGON PAPERS AFTER 50 YRS. @americamag @DanielEllsberg bit.ly/2RXdSQt
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Whistleblowing is about truth-telling, says @RobertEllsberg. And he should know, since he helped his father, @DanielEllsberg, one of our country's most significant whistleblowers so far. My story:
ncronline.org/news/justice/r…
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In 1983 the US bishops prepared an important pastoral letter on nuclear war, “The Challenge of Peace.” That was essentially the last time they treated this as a matter of urgent moral concern. Thanks to @CardinalBCupich for taking this existential challenge seriously.
I invite you to read my op-ed in @thehill: thehill.com/opinion/national…
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@dcosacchi at #CTSA gave a powerful presentation on Dorothy Day, emphasizing her defense of workers and her challenge to the US bishops.
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Anne Frank was born June 12 1929. The date of her death in 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is unknown. My reflection last year in my series on #MastersofSocialIsolation. “I want to go on living after my death.” This wish was fulfilled.
#MastersofSocialIsolation #10. In a time when Jewish children in Europe were hunted like vermin, Anne Frank did not choose her isolation. With her own and another family she was confined for 2 years in a “secret annex” in Amsterdam, never going out, keeping still all day.
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