THE PEACE PATRIOTS

A Primer on Dissent in a Time Of War

Nationally Broadcast on Free Speech TV
Excerpts Globally Broadcast on DEMOCRACY NOW!

Narrated by Janeane Garofalo
Directed by Robbie Leppzer
78 minutes • 2005/2021 Digitally Remastered HD Version • Closed Captions
www.turningtide.com/the-peace-patriots

ABOUT

When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, there was a huge protest against this war across the country and around the world, which was largely ignored by the American mainstream media. In an unprecedented day of global protest—one month before the invasion began—over 15 million people around the world demonstrated against this impending war.

In the United States, grassroots citizen opposition during the first 18 months of the Iraq war grew at a larger and faster rate than during the Vietnam anti-war movement of the 1960s. Americans protested against this war in hundreds of cities and towns across the country.

THE PEACE PATRIOTS chronicles the story of people opposed to war who live in one area of New England, the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts.

This film is a primer about the various ways people express dissent in a democratic society.

Narrated by actress Janeane Garofalo, this feature-length documentary film follows a diverse group of individuals, ranging in age from 14 to 75, 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, teach-ins, theater performances, and civil disobedience sit-ins to protest the start of the U.S. war in Iraq.

THE PEACE PATRIOTS is an intimate portrait of American dissenters reflecting on their personal participation as engaged citizens in a time of war.

The film features contemporary music by Grammy Award winner Steve Earle, Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Jonatha Brooke, Stephan Smith, Saul Williams, DJ Spooky, Jami Sieber, Shelley Doty and original music by John Sheldon.