Screening: Rethinking Afghanistan
Director Robert Greenwald's latest film, Rethinking Afghanistan, has been released as a free serial on Youtube and the Brave New Films website. As a special engagement, the film will show in its entirety at Netroots Nation. Rethinking Afghanistan focuses on the human and financial costs of combat in the Middle East to challenge the notion that Afghanistan is "the good war". Instead, Greenwald argues troop escalation threatens to entrench America in an unwinnable, unwanted war that only further empowers the resurgent Taliban. Followed by a discussion with filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake
Jane Hamsher is the Founder and Publisher of Firedoglake. Jane's work has appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and PBS and is the author of the best selling book Killer Instinct. She has produced such films Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight and currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is founder/president of Brave New Films, a new media organization that uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers. Under Greenwald, BNF has produced dozens of videos on social justice and political issues which have been viewed over 40 million times and forced pressing issues into mainstream media. Greenwald is currently directing Rethink Afghanistan, a documentary about the dangers of military escalation in Afghanistan. Greenwald is also the director/producer of several documentaries including: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.
