Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
A board member and former president and Vice President of the peace history society. Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular resistance and towards a new conscientious objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the cornegy endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war socialists, anarchists and other political radicals bas
Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular red to secularac resistance and towards a new Conscientious Objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war, socialists, anarchists, and other political radicals based their dissent on secular principles, political, philosophical
Progressive platform in the partys history but not all of his supporters are happy. Then the awardwinning actress Shailene Woodley launches the up to u. S. Caravan to the dnc. No amount of pressure will suppress our belief in political reform and social justice and create a nation that represents the 99 , not just the upper 1 . Amy shaene woodley will join us along with oscarnominated josh fox who fought to push the Democratic Party to adopt a ban on fracking in the partys platform. Then president obama heads to dallas for the memorial for the five Police Officers slain last week. Pres. Obama part of what is creating tensions between communities and the police is the fact that police have a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere. Amy we will speak to historian gerald horne on the racist history of the Second Amendment , as he describes it, from the founding of the ku klux klan to the black panthers. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy no
Amy as Bernie Sanders prepares to campaign with Hillary Clinton at a joint rally in New Hampshire, we speak to congressman Keith Ellison who was appointed by sanders to serve on the drafting committee of the Democratic Party platform. Sanders has called it the most progressive platform in the partys history but not all of his supporters are happy. Then the awardwinning actress Shailene Woodley launches the up to u. S. Caravan to the dnc. No amount of pressure wiwill susuppress our belief in politil reform andndocial justice and create a nation that represents the 99 , not just the upper 1 . Amy Shailene Woodley will join us along with oscarnominated josh fox who fouought to push te Democratic Party to adopt a ban on fracking in the partys platform. Then president obama heads to dallas for the memorial for the five Police Officers slain last week. Pres. Obama part of what is creating tensions between communities and the police is the fact that police have a really difficult time in comm