Webinar: 8:30AM / Thursday, July 13th
Organized by our friends at Just World Educational!
“Two ‘Just World Educational’ board members, Richard Falk and Nora Barrows-Friedman each had lengthy relationships with the heroic, recently deceased whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg– relationships that were both political and personal.
In our webinar, Nora and Richard will share some of the poignant personal remembrances of how the famed Dr. Ellsberg affected their lives. And together with Just World Ed President Helena Cobban they will reflect on the key importance of Dan Ellsberg’s moral clarity and moral commitments in an era when our own century’s greatest whistleblower, Julian Assange, has been incarcerated for many years in England, at the behest of U.S. authorities determined to punish him for revealing gross U.S. misdeeds in Iraq and elsewhere. [Link to register]
Join us as we explore some of Richard and Nora’s key memories of Dan Ellsberg, as well as the contrast between a Western media environment that has lavishly lauded Dan’s truly history-making whistleblowing while it stands largely indifferent to the present fate of Julian Assange. We are planning this webinar as a loving and very present-focused homage to a great man that can also, we hope, be a gift to the family members he left behind, as proof that Dan Ellsberg’s courageous spirit lives on“
Nora Barrows-Friedman is an award-winning journalist, associate editor of The Electronic Intifada and the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014). She is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Media Freedom Award from the Media Freedom Foundation.
Prof. Richard Falk is a renowned scholar of international law who in 2014 completed a term as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. He is Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University where he taught for 40 years and the author or co-author of over 20 books. He has chaired or served on the board of numerous organizations including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
(The banner image is a photo of Ellsberg when he spoke at “De-nuke NATO” event in Washington DC in 1999.)
Just World Educational is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Virginia in December 2015. JWE is dedicated to providing educational resources and experiences that inform and expand the public discourse in North America on issues of vital international concern. Its current focus is on issues of peace and justice, with particular attention to the Middle East.
