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THE
PEACE PATRIOTS
NEW! DVD & VHS Available For Purchase On-Line
Watch Excerpts Of The Film
Now Booking For 2006 - 2007 College Speaking/Screening
Tour
Narrated
by actress and Air America Radio host, Janeane Garofalo,
this new feature-length documentary is an intimate portrait of
American dissenters reflecting on their personal participation
as engaged citizens in a time of war. The 78-minute film follows
a diverse group of individuals, ranging in age from 13 to 74,
including middle and high school students, college students, teachers,
clergy, and war veterans from Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf,
as they take part in vigils, marches, theater performances, and
civil disobedience sit-ins to protest the U.S. invasion and on-going
military occupation of Iraq. Upcoming national broadcast on Free Speech TV.
78
minutes DVD or VHS
Featuring
contemporary music by 2005 Grammy Award winner Steve Earle,
Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Jonatha Brooke, Stephan
Smith, Saul Williams, DJ Spooky, and original music by John
Sheldon.
THE
PEACE PATRIOTS gives us hope and inspiration. I hope it will
be shown widely.
—Howard Zinn, Author
of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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INDEPENDENT
VOICES Turning
Tide Speaker Series
We
have produced a series of full-length video talks by noted authors
and journalists addressing the critical issues of our times. Videos
in the series include:
NOAM CHOMSKY: "Why Iraq?"
HOWARD
ZINN: "War and Terrorism"
AMY
GOODMAN : "Free Speech & Independent Media"
JIM
HIGHTOWER : "Take Back America"
DANIEL
ELLSBERG : "Secrets & Lies: Vietnam To Iraq"
DR.
VANDANA SHIVA: "Making Another World Possible"
DR.
HELEN CALDICOTT: "The New Nuclear Danger"
SCOTT
RITTER : "The Bushwacking of America"
Hear
the voices which are being ignored or only given superficial treatment
by the mainstream media. Use these videos as discussion catalysts
for your family, friends, and community at schools, workplaces,
community centers, libraries, religious organizations, and in
your own living room.
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HEALING THE WOUNDS OF WAR
A film about conflict transformation and the work of the Karuna Center For Peacebuilding, a U.S.-based organization, which brought together Serb and Muslim teachers seeking to rebuild and reunite their devastated communities in the aftermath of the war in Bosnia.
40
minutes DVD or VHS
“Dialog is so very important. We will never be able to move forward if we aren’t able to sit at the same table and listen to each other’s needs, wishes, and hopes.”
—Senka Jakupovic, Bosnian Teacher
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VOICES
FOR PEACE
Featuring Nobel Peace prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, grassroots peace activists speak out in New York City and Washington, DC soon after the September 11 attacks. They raise critical questions about U.S. foreign and military policy, the impact of war on innocent civilians, the erosion of civil liberties in the U.S., and the root causes of violence in the world. An effective discussion catalyst to widen the scope of debate about U.S. responses to terrorism. Nationally broadcast on Free
Speech TV.
25 minutes DVD or VHS
"VOICES FOR PEACE is an inspirational boost,
letting those who oppose war know they are not alone."
—Howard Zinn, Author
of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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AN
ACT OF CONSCIENCE
Narrated by actor Martin Sheen, this feature-length documentary
chronicles the story of two pacifists whose home in western Massachusetts
was seized by federal marshals and IRS agents after they publicly
refused to pay federal taxes as a protest against war and military
spending. World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival. Nationally
broadcast by Cinemax and Sundance Channel.
90 minutes DVD or VHS
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FUTBOLITO:
A Journey Through Central America
A chronicle of five New Engtland young people who travel through
Guatemala and Nicaragua waging peace with "Hacky Sack"
to show how a cooperative footgame can be used to make cross-cultural
bridges. Broadcast on Public Television.
28 minutes DVD or VHS
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ARCTIC
TO AMAZONIA
Native activists from North and South America present first-hand
information on the impact of industrial development upon their
land and cultures.
21 minutes DVD or VHS
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COLUMBUS
DIDNT DISCOVER US
A moving testimony about the impact of the Columbus legacy on
the lives of indigenous people from North, South, and Central
America. Broadcast on
Public Television. Award of Merit, Latin American Studies Association.
24 minutes DVD or VHS
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STRAIGHT
TALK
Vietnam veterans speak to high school students about their first-hand
experiences in war. Broadcast on Public Television.
31 minutes DVD or VHS |
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THE
LONG ROAD BACK
High school students interview recovering drug addicts and alcoholics
from Marathon House, an intensive residential treatment program
in Springfield, Massachusetts.
29
minutes DVD or VHS |
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CALL
OF THE PEACE PAGODA
A portrait of a Japanese and American Buddhist spiritual community
in western Massachusetts dedicated to the philosophy of nonviolence.
Broadcast on
Public Television in the U.S. and Canada.
28 minutes DVD or VHS |
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SONGS
OF THE TALKING DRUM
A portrait of a cross-cultural artistic collaboration: CBS world
beat musicians Tony Vacca and Tim Moran link contemporary jazz with
its African roots, and African-American performance artist Andrea
Hairston blends dramatic monologue, movement, and music to create
a "jazz theater." Broadcast on Public Television.
57 minutes DVD or VHS
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VIETNAM
STORIES
A gripping oral history video documentary made in collaboration with high school students about the Vietnam War. Eleventh grade students interview five Vietnam combat veterans who fought in the war and two draft resisters who went to jail fighting against it.
35 minutes DVD or VHS |
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A
HERITAGE WITHIN
Designed for use in 5th and 6th grade elementary school classrooms, A HERITAGE WITHIN examines the culture and heritage of Irish, French-Canadian, and Puerto Rican immigrants in Holyoke, Massachusetts, one of America’s first industrial mill towns. Broadcast on Public
Television.
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HARVEST
OF PEACE
U.S. volunteers travel to a war zone in Nicaragua during the height
of the U.S.-backed Contra war in the mid-1980's to harvest
cotton in a unique citizen-to-citizen peace effort. World premiere,
Telluride Film Festival. Best Nonfiction Film, San Antonio
Cine Festival. Broadcast
on Public Television.
29 minutes DVD or VHS
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CHOOSE
LIFE
A document of the historic march for world peace when over a million
people gathered in New York City to call for an end to the nuclear
arms race on June 12, 1982.
10 minutes DVD or VHS |
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THEY
CANT BREAK OUR UNION
A chronicle of the longest strike in Massachusetts history and a
case study of the breakdown in American labor relations in the 1980s.
50 minutes DVD or VHS |
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SEABROOK
1977
A chronicle of a seminal event of 1970s environmental activism
when 1,414 people were arrested in a civil disobedience protest
at a nuclear power plant under construction in Seabrook, New Hampshire
and jailed en masse in National Guard armories for two weeks.
Broadcast on Public Television.
87 minutes VHS • [SPECIAL NOTE: DVD To Be Released Later This Year.] |
Photo
Credits: All website photos by Robbie Leppzer, unless otherwise noted.
Top
Row Photo Credit: Lionel Delevingne (upper right).
Left
Column Photo Credits: Diane Greene Lent (VOICES FOR PEACE), Richard
Bancroft (COLUMBUS DIDNT DISCOVER US), Bryan Lagimoniere (STRAIGHT
TALK and VIETNAM STORIES), Lionel Delevingne (CHOOSE LIFE and SEABROOK
1977), and Robert Tobey/The Valley Advocate (THEY CANT BREAK OUR
UNION).
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