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Showing videos filed under: Brave New Films
The F Word: Goodbye For Now from GRITtv
May 13, 2011Three years ago today, on May 12, 2008, the first episode of GRITtv hit the air. Given life by Free Speech TV, the project we imagined was a daily forum for changemakers that would welcome new voices and celebrate diversity.Chris Hedges, Honeywell Workers, and a special message from Laura
May 12, 2011"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out.Rethink Afghanistan: Behind the Scenes
December 16, 2010Rick Rowley is just one of the unembedded, independent reporters trying to bring the real story from Afghanistan to the American people. Our friends at Brave New Films also have teams of independent media makers in that country, and this segment takes us inside their dangerous work.Rick Rowley, Rethink Afghanistan, Peter Bratsis & Harry Potter
December 15, 2010"NATO is losing the war in Afghanistan in every quantifiable way," says Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, recently returned from a reporting trip to that country. And what's more, he notes, what's clear from the WikiLeaks cables is that the coalition governments are not as deluded as they would like their people to be about the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.Brave New Films: No Millionaire Left Behind
December 8, 2010If the Bush tax cuts were a comic book, what would they look like? Who's the superhero, and who's the zombie? Our friends at Brave New Films put together this video to look at the situation facing Congressional Democrats as the tax cuts for millionaires are set to expire.Bill Fletcher Jr., Robert Kuttner, and Tax Cuts
December 7, 2010"This is about crushing the power of working people, we should be very clear," says Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the attacks on federal workers' pay. Freezing their wages isn't enough; some, like Rand Paul, say they should actually be cut. It's all more proof, Bill notes, that no compromise will be enough for Republicans, whether it's tax cuts or pay freezes or any other supposed economic recovery or deficit reduction tactics.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: Pentagon's Half-Billion Dollar PR
September 10, 2010General Petraeus is all over the media these days, but the attempt to sell the war in Afghanistan is much bigger than that. As this video from our friends at Brave New Films shows,the Pentagon's $500 million budget for public relations aimed at the U.S. people is churning out propaganda hand over fist.Greg Grandin, Islamophobia and 9/11, and Pentagon PR
September 9, 2010September 11 is not only an infamous date in the U.S.--in Chile, it marks the anniversary of the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. This year, 33 miners will spend that anniversary trapped underground, and Greg Grandin notes that Chile is seeing what amounts to the "Shock doctrine with a human face" under its current regime--deregulation leading to safety issues like that in the mine. Meanwhile, Mexico continues to see ever-escalating violence from drug cartels, and the U.S. State Department is now calling it an "insurgency."
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