"An Act of Conscience.." Event in Ashland

Liisa, 25.03.2008 17:42

"An Act of Conscience: Standing Up for Your Beliefs Begins at Home"
Sunday, March 30, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Meese Auditorium at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon

Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner will discuss their project, "Promoting Active Nonviolence or PAN" and show excerpts of their film, "An Act of Conscience: Standing Up for Your Beliefs Begins at Home."

Peace House, Oregon Action, WILPF and Students for Truth are sponsoring their program.

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"AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE is one of the most deeply moving films I’ve seen in years. Seeing this movie lifts your spirits, exhilarates, and offers hope."

Studs Terkel
Author of WORKING, HARD TIMES, and "THE GOOD WAR"

How far are you willing to go to stand up for your deepest beliefs? For Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner of Colrain, Massachusetts, their life-long commitment to pacifism led them to risk losing their home. For fourteen years, they publicly refused to pay federal taxes as a protest against war and military spending. As a consequence, their home was seized by U.S. marshals and IRS agents. Narrated by actor Martin Sheen, this feature-length documentary chronicles the couple’s five-year struggle to nonviolently resist the seizure of their home, in which they are joined by hundreds of supporters from across the country, including noted author and activist priest Fr. Daniel Berrigan and long-time folksinger Pete Seeger.

When a young couple buys the contested home at auction from the U.S. government for $5,400, they become involved in a political and moral battle much larger than what they originally bargained for. AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE provides a compelling and thought-provoking glimpse of the conflict between these two families: one couple reaching for the American dream, the other challenging the very foundation of that dream.

The film includes a brief history of war tax resistance in America from the colonial era to Henry David Thoreau to the Vietnam War.

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Event highlighted on Brain Labor Report radio show 28.03.2008 - 09:36 TODAY'S RADIO SHOW... "An Act of Conscience"  http://www.kskq.org/brainlabor/?p=254 We talk with Dot Fisher-Smith about the upcoming visit with Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner who will discuss their project, “Promoting Active Nonviolence or PAN” and show excerpts of their film, “An Act of Conscience: Standing Up for Your Beliefs Begins at Home.” Sunday, March 30, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Location: Meese Auditorium at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon ALTERNATIVE MEDIA>