NOAM CHOMSKY AND DANIEL ELLSBERG IN DISCUSSION ON THE NUCLEAR DANGERS IN UKRAINE
Event Date: 29th April 2022
Location: Internet 8pm BST
NOAM CHOMSKY AND DANIEL ELLSBERG
IN DISCUSSION
ON THE NUCLEAR DANGERS IN UKRAINE
with co-hosts Cynthia Lazaroff and Richard Falk
We are honored to welcome Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, world-renowned, lifelong social justice activists and two of the most prominent experts on the geopolitics of the Ukrainian-Russian war and the threat or use of nuclear weapons.
Our co-hosts for this special discussion will be Cynthia Lazaroff, founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University.
Friday, April 29, 2022
12:00 pm PT 3:00 pm ET 8:00 pm CET
PLEASE REGISTER AT:
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Philosopher, cognitive scientist, linguist, political commentator, and lifelong activist, Chomsky is arguably the single most influential scholar in the world today. He is a sharp critic of American foreign policy and an anarchist who believes in creating a radically different, more just society. Chomsky is the author of more than 100 books, his most recent, Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power, was published in 2017. At the age of 93, knowing his voice still needs to be heard during this critical time, Chomsky hasn’t retreated from the world stage, contending, “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history and are now facing the prospect of the destruction of organized human life on Earth.”
Daniel Ellsberg, known to many as the original whistleblower, in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the US government’s decision-making in the Vietnam War. He was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917, along with charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct, illegal evidence-gathering, and a stellar defense team, all charges against Ellsberg were dismissed on May 11, 1973. He is the author of four books, the latest published in 2017 entitled The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Ellsberg was awarded the 2006 Right Livelihood Award “…for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.”
Cynthia Lazaroff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy. She is the author of Dawn of a New Armageddon, a personal account of the Hawaii missile scare, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on August 6, 2018. An expert on US-Russia relations, including on the history, geopolitics, military, cyber and escalating nuclear risks between these two countries, Cynthia has been engaged in Track II citizen diplomacy and mediation efforts with Russia since the early 1980s.
Richard Falk is a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed him to a six-year term as a UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 books. His memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, was published this last year.
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