Robert Ellsberg will share his personal story “for the first time” about growing up within the U.S. peace movement. As a 13-year-old, Robert helped his father Daniel Ellsberg photocopy thousand of pages of classified Pentagon Papers that disclosed the U.S. government conscious pursuit of a losing War on Vietnam. A 2009 Academy Awards nominated film documentary about these disclosures features Daniel Ellsberg as “The Most Dangerous Man in America” and includes an interview with son Robert Ellsberg.
Ellsberg will speak on “One Candle Lights Another: The Pentagon Papers, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and My Life with the Saints.” Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Ellsberg dropped out of college at age 19 to join the Catholic Worker, a pacifist movement that participates in nonviolent direct action and provides food and shelter to the poor and homeless. He became managing editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper and came to know and, work closely for five years with Dorothy Day (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Day's cause for canonization or sainthood, as one of the most inspiring figures of recent history, remains open in the Catholic Church.
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