BRAVE NEW FILMS – In The Media

By Sarah Bennett for Long Beach Post 

Everything seems to happen fortuitously for Leonard Baric, the Long Beach resident behind the long-running DIY film series Conscious Cinema. During election season 2004, just as he was beginning to ask questions about the growing war in Iraq, he happened to stumble across Cal State Long Beach professor Liz Philipose's weekly documentary screening that was aimed at dissuading people from voting for George Bush. As a liberal activist, Baric attended each one, absorbing knowledge on the social and political events of the time through a medium he had not previously considered.

By Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet

Unlike an estimated 150 colleges and universities that have taken $56 million from the billionaire libertarian industrialist Koch brothers since the 1980s—and then integrated their extreme right-wing agenda into business classes while censoring other views—the New York City college keeps rejecting Koch cash, an aggrieved libertarian business school professor complained in a detailed report by InsideHigherEd.com.  

By KENNETH P. VOGEL and TARINI PARTI for Politico

David Brock has a message for liberal millionaires: Don’t sweat being called hypocrites.

Brock, a former “right-wing hit-man”-turned-top-big-money-Democratic-operative, is part of a behind-the-scenes campaign to convince donors it’s OK to attack the Koch brothers for spending millions of dollars while doing the exact same thing for the left.

By Jordan Melograna for the Huffington Post

At Brave New Films, much of our work focuses on the ways powerful people profit from exploiting non-powerful people. Whether it's private prison companiesprofiting from locking up poor people for non-violent offenses, or the world's billionaires buying governmental policies that benefit them at the expense of the working classes. Our newest video tackles wage theft -- the various ways that employers save a buck or two by stealing from employees.

By Jordan Melograna For City Watch 

ACTION REPORT-At Brave New Films, much of our work focuses on the ways powerful people profit from exploiting non-powerful people. 

Whether it's private prison companies profiting from locking up poor people for non-violent offenses, or the world's billionaires buying governmental policies that benefit them at the expense of the working classes. Our newest video tackles wage theft -- the various ways that employers save a buck or two by stealing from employees. 

By Emily Alpert Reyes for the Los Angeles Times. 

Two Los Angeles City Council members began a push Tuesday for a new city ordinance that would crack down on businesses that cheat workers of their pay.

The U.S. led war in Iraq cost billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and has faced heavy criticism. CCTV's Anand Naidoo is joined by filmmaker Robert Greenwald, who has made documentaries about the Iraq war and has been very outspoken about his opposition to the invasion and subsequent years spent in the Middle East. 

On May 22nd, Robert Greenwald spoke with Ed Schultz on his radio show about the launch of Brave New Films' updated Koch Brothers Exposed film. 

On Monday, June 9th Robert Greenwald appeared on KPFK's Connect The Dots with Lila Garrett. Watch the video below to listen to their conversation. 

This post originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. It was written by Jeffrey Fleishman and republished in the Orlando Sentinel. 

The Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan is harsh in nature and war, a bitter and beautiful landscape that bonded a small band of soldiers whose efforts epitomized America's limitations against the antipathy and resilience of an enemy it could neither fathom nor tame.