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An Act of Conscience, the Glossary

An Act of Conscience is a 1997 American documentary film directed, shot and edited by Robbie Leppzer.^[1]

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Anti-war protests in the United States
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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Anti-war movement

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict.

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Back taxes

Back taxes is a term for taxes that were not completely paid when due.

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Cinemax

Cinemax (alternatively shortened to Max) is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Colrain, Massachusetts

Colrain is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the crime of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice, and dignity of the court.

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Daily Hampshire Gazette

The Daily Hampshire Gazette is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, and covering all of Hampshire County, southern towns of Franklin County, and Holyoke.

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Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Draft evasion in the Vietnam War

Draft evasion in the Vietnam War was a common practice in the United States and in Australia.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.

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Foreign interventions by the United States

The United States government has been involved in numerous interventions in foreign countries throughout its history.

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Franklin County, Massachusetts

Franklin County is a nongovernmental county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Friends Journal

Friends Journal is a monthly Quaker magazine that combines first-person narrative, reportage, poetry, and news.

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Greenfield, Massachusetts

Greenfield is the only city in, and the seat of, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Income tax in the United States

The United States federal government and most state governments impose an income tax.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Joe Leydon

Joseph Patrick Michael Leydon (born August 22, 1952) is an American film critic and historian.

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LNP Media Group owns and publishes LNP, a daily newspaper based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and LancasterOnline, its online affiliate with monthly readership of over one million.

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Martin Sheen

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor.

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Morning Sentinel

The Morning Sentinel is an American daily newspaper published six mornings a week in Waterville, Maine.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Newsday

Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.

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Northampton, Massachusetts

The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Nuclear proliferation

Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT.

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Park City, Utah

Park City is a city in Utah, United States.

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Park Record

The Park Record is a twice-weekly newspaper published in Park City, Utah that focuses on news in Park City and Summit County, Utah.

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Randy Kehler

Randy Kehler (July 16, 1944 – July 21, 2024) was an American pacifist, tax resister, and social justice advocate.

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Robbie Leppzer

Robbie Leppzer (born 1957/1958) is an American filmmaker and videographer known for directing documentary films about grassroots activism.

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Sojourners

Sojourners is a progressive monthly magazine and daily online publication of the American Christian social justice organization Sojourners, which arose out of the Sojourners Community.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Steven Schoenberg

Steven Schoenberg (born October 17, 1952) is an American composer, songwriter, film composer, and pianist.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Sundance TV

Sundance TV (formerly known as Sundance Channel) is an American pay television channel owned by AMC Networks that launched on February 1, 1996.

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Swords to ploughshares (or plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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Tax Day

In the United States, Tax Day is the day on which individual income tax returns are due to be submitted to the federal government.

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Tax evasion

Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others.

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Tax resistance

Tax resistance is the refusal to pay tax because of opposition to the government that is imposing the tax, or to government policy, or as opposition to taxation in itself.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Boys Who Said No!

The Boys Who Said No! is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Judith Ehrlich about the anti-war and draft resistance movement in Oakland, California, which developed in opposition to the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_of_Conscience

, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Variety (magazine), Vietnam War, W. E. B. Du Bois Library, Wally Nelson, Wipf and Stock, Women's shelter.

An Act of Conscience, the Glossary

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See also

Anti-war protests in the United States

Tax resistance in the United States

References