Second Annual Ellsberg Lecture
The Madness of Militarism
Nothing Can Be Changed Until It is Faced
At a time of severe crises that span from local communities to national governance, faraway wars, a global climate emergency, and heightened dangers of nuclear war, clarity is daunting and essential. What Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism” has worsened in recent decades, with countless cascading effects. In this lecture, Norman Solomon will offer an overview of present-day U.S. militarism, its consequences, and possibilities for overcoming its pervasive effects.
November 15th, 2023
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Integrative Learning Center
Room N151
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (Wiley, 2005) and War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (The New Press, 2023). He has been an activist since the late 1960s.