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Showing videos filed under: robert greenwald
Robert Greenwald: Where's Our Movement?
September 16, 2010"Where are we, where is the passion, where is the organizing when millions of people are in deep pain and fear over the economic collapse?" asks Robert Greenwald, founder and president of Brave New Films. While his videos have been viewed 50 million times now by progressive activists, Greenwald wants to see more organizing, more outreach, more movement-building from the left.Robert Greenwald, Funding the Arts, and Primary Victories
September 15, 2010"Where are we, where is the passion, where is the organizing when millions of people are in deep pain and fear over the economic collapse?" asks Robert Greenwald, founder and president of Brave New Films. While his videos have been viewed 50 million times now by progressive activists, Greenwald wants to see more organizing, more outreach, more movement-building from the left.Rethink Afghanistan: Pakistan
July 27, 2010With the release of the WikiLeaks "War Logs," more focus has been brought to the war in Afghanistan. But will anything change? Our friends at Brave New Films have been following the war there for years, urging Americans to learn more about the situation and what's being done in our names and with our tax dollars.Katrina vanden Heuvel, Reproductive Coercion, and Afghanistan
July 26, 2010New documents released by the site WikiLeaks provide an increasingly clear--and chilling--picture of the war in Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel notes that the documents, released simultaneously by The Guardian, the New York Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel, as well as in full by WikiLeaks, are an example of "asymmetrical media," allowing the public to access the raw documents as well as the parts filtered by the traditional press.Brave New Films: FOX's War on ACORN
March 25, 2010What does FOX News have to do with the demise of ACORN? According to this segment from our friends at Brave New Films, quite a lot. FOX's lead sent other news outlets scurrying after the non-story of James O'Keefe's infamous "pimp and prostitute" video, and kept up a steady drumbeat that saw the organization stripped of funds and forced to close its doors.ACORN, Health Care Reform, and the Media
March 24, 2010The right wing's favorite political football, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has announced that it will be closing down. What brought down the once-strong force for justice for low-income Americans?Stop Rush Limbaugh: Fight the Smears
March 10, 2010Rush Limbaugh likes to use populist rhetoric to inflame his fans, but the right-wing demagogue actually lives in a $13 million Manhattan penthouse. Not much of a man of the people. This video from Brave New Films points out Limbaugh's hypocrisy, and you can join their group on Facebook to help fight right-wing smears.Youth Unemployment, Carrie Brunk, and Student Protests
March 9, 2010The focus during the unemployment crisis has been largely on those who have lost their jobs, but students and first-time job seekers have been hit hard as well. Viany Orozco of Demos points out that for those who enter the workforce for the first time during a recession, the wage hit can last for many years down the road.Year in Review: Looking Back at 2009 and the 00's
December 31, 2009It's the end of 2009. We're still in two wars, Guantanamo is not yet closed, and the jobless numbers are still sky-high. What happened to all the optimism we started the year with? There have been bright spots and not-so-bright spots, nasty political fights and moments of progress.Robert Greenwald: Organizing through Film
December 24, 2009Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films has been making documentaries on the biggest progressive issues for the last decade. He's gone from the 2000 election to the Iraq War, Fox News to Wal-Mart, and lately has been a leading voice urging leaders to Rethink Afghanistan. He joins us via phone to talk about progressive organizing through media--what works, what doesn't, and where to go from here.
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