The War On Greed

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This is a new short video with http://warongreed.org/">an extensive web site with a significant write-up in the press, including The NY Times, The Nation, and http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2007/12/03/walmart-filmmaker-targets-kravis/">Reuters.
I found out about this http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/12/07/after-we-lose-our-homes-is-our-retirement-next"> here by way of this DU thread.

A Movie and Protesters Single Out Henry Kravis

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Published: December 6, 2007

Bells will be ringing, and carolers will be greeting the Upper East Side neighbors of Henry Kravis this morning.

It may be Christmastime, but the revelers are not there to embrace the holiday. They will be outside the apartment of Mr. Kravis, a founder of the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, for a sidewalk screening of the first of a series of short films crusading against private equity firms. Passers-by can catch the film on high-technology sandwich boards being worn by protesters.

The movie, “The War on Greed, Starring the Homes of Henry Kravis,” is a tongue-in-cheek story — think “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” meets “Roger & Me” — detailing Mr. Kravis’s homes and lifestyle, juxtaposed against the homes and incomes of working families.

Directed by Robert Greenwald, the film starts by tallying Mr. Kravis’s income: “He made $450 million last year,” the narrator says, “which comes out to $1.3 million per day, or $51,369 per hour every hour of every day.” Then it immediately cuts to an interview with Margaret Konjevod, a nurse at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/business/06equity.html