All Videos Tagged Daniel-Ellsberg (Tulsa Peace Fellowship) - Tulsa Peace Fellowship

Tri-Valley CAREs in Action

2014-10-24T17:57:28.527Z

This professional mini-documentary celebrates Tri-Valley CAREs' 30 years of creating peace, justice, and the environment.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'

2013-06-10T18:21:31.643Z

"Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning."
~Glenn Greenwald

12-min video interview on what Snowden calls "turnkey tyranny":

further context:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

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Veterans for Peace White House Civil Disobedience to End War

2010-12-19T20:49:08.000Z

Some 131 people were arrested as part of a Civil Disobedience civic action at the White House, Dec 2010, protesting the continuing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in Iraq. Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was among those arrested during the nonviolent demonstration. Hedges delivered a rousing speech, pointing out that “hope has a cost, hope is not comfortable,” before joining other supporters of Veterans for Peace who chained themselves to the White House fence. When asked why he chose that course of action, Hedges replied, “Because it’s all we have left at this point. The normal mechanisms by which democratic participation are rendered possible in this country have been closed shut, and if we don’t do this, we die. This is what’s left of hope in this country.”

Ellsberg said he was drawn to the demonstration in part because veterans were leading the action. “I know that people here understand this war is as hopeless and wrong as the war we participated in in Vietnam, and it is not going to end by a presidential initiative,” he said. “It’ll only be because the American public has awakened to their responsibilities and to the realities of this war.” The “big lie” that the American government is telling its people now, Ellsberg believes, “is that these wars are protecting us at home.”