Peace Patriots
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A Primer on Dissent in a Time of War - An intimate portrait of American dissenters, including teenagers, college students, war veterans, teachers, clergy, and community activists, as they take part in vigils, marches, teach-ins, theater performances, and civil disobedience sit-ins to protest the start of the U.S. war in Iraq.
Robbie Leppzer is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker with forty years experience directing over thirty independent film, video, and public radio documentaries for national and international distribution. His critically acclaimed feature-length and short documentaries, as well as commissioned television news magazine segments, about contemporary social issues and multicultural themes have been broadcast by CNN International, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, HBO/Cinemax, PBS, CNN, Sundance Channel, HDNet, Free Speech TV, Link TV, Vermont PBS, National Public Radio, and Pacifica Radio. His documentaries chronicling grassroots social change activism include POWER STRUGGLE (2019), THE PEACE PATRIOTS (2005), AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE (1997), COLUMBUS DIDN’T DISCOVER US (1992/2021), HARVEST OF PEACE (1985), and SEABROOK 1977 (1978).
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