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THE PEACE PATRIOTS
• NEW! DVD & VHS Available For Purchase On-Line
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• 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

   

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

COLUMBUS DIDN’T 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

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

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

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
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
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
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.
55 minutes • DVD or VHS

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


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
THEY CAN’T 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

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 DIDN’T DISCOVER US), Bryan Lagimoniere (STRAIGHT TALK and VIETNAM STORIES), Lionel Delevingne (CHOOSE LIFE and SEABROOK 1977), and Robert Tobey/The Valley Advocate (THEY CAN’T BREAK OUR UNION).

 

 

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