[HCCN] THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA

[Judith Robbins]

After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London, an  
international group of former intelligence officers and ex-government  
officials released a statement in support of his work. ...one of the  
signatories, Daniel Ellsberg, the famous whistleblower who leaked the  
Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971... "If I released the  
Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be  
made about me," Ellsberg says. "I would be called not only a traitor— 
which I was then, which was false and slanderous—but I would be  
called a terrorist... Assange and Bradley Manning are no more  
terrorists than I am." -- [Democracy Now interview]




THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA. Blue Hill Library January 28, 7  
p.m. PENINSULA PEACE & JUSTICE FILM SERIES.



								
"To carry on these wars, you must do it over our bodies."  ~  D.  
Ellsberg, among 131 peace activists arrested at the White House on  
December 16, 2010, at a protest organized by Veterans For Peace.


The first in the Peninsula Peace & Justice winter film series should  
be of particular interest today as the world responds to the  
Wikileaks controversy.  "The Most Dangerous Man in America” tells  
the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and  
Vietnam War strategist, who in 1971 concluded that the war was based  
on decades of lies. Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of top secret  
documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.

The 2009 Academy Award nominated documentary depicts the whole story  
of the Pentagon Papers, a landmark struggle involving America’s  
newspapers, its President and Supreme Court.

The film will be shown at Blue Hill Library at 7:00 p.m. on Friday,  
January 28.

Free and open to the public. For info: 326-4405.





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