VETERANS FOR PEACE
CONVENTION
Films
Friday, July 25, 2025
8:00 pm PT
The Palestine ExceptionP​
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Moderators: Dan Shea
Producer: Marlene Eid
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Description: ​
THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION
https://www.palestineexceptionfilm.com/
After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
6:30 PM PT
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The Earth's Greatest Enemy​
(2 hours)
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Moderator: Mike Prysner
Producer: Mike Prysner, Abby Martin
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Description:
This will be a special sneak peak of the forthcoming film Earth's Greatest Enemy, due to premiere in early Fall. The second feature documentary by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, this investigative piece exposes the environmental impact of US militarism. From carbon emissions, to base pollution, to war fallout and more, this project seeks to bridge the climate change movement with the anti-war movement by making a clear case that we cannot save the planet without ending imperialism.
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
8:45 PM PT
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Breaking the taboo now! ​
(48 min)
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Moderator: Rachel Clark
Producer: Mr. Tatsuo Sekiguchi, Nagasaki Broadcasting Company
Description:
Breaking the taboo now! documents the testimonies of 4 U.S. veterans... Nuclear weapons of the US military in Japan
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