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Tuesday, September 23 - SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE - 7:30 PM
Neighbors For Peace and Justice present Conscientious Projector, a film series that encourages community dialogue and debate about the contemporary political issues that affect us all. Soldiers of Conscience is a dramatic window on the dilemma of individual U.S. soldiers in the current Iraq War - when their finger is on the trigger and another human being is in their gun-sight. Made with cooperation from the U.S. Army and narrated by Peter Coyote, the film profiles eight American soldiers, including four who decide not to kill, and become conscientious objectors; and four who believe in their duty to kill if necessary. The film reveals all of them wrestling with the morality of killing in war, not as a philosophical problem, but as soldiers experience it - a split-second decision in combat that can never be forgotten or undone. Refreshments provided.