Director Protests, Screens Film Outside Home Of Financier Kravis

New York Times   |  Andrew Ross Sorkin   |   December 6, 2007 12:46 PM


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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.

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- kfdan See Profile I'm a Fan of kfdan permalink

The idea to display the life-styles of the rich and infamous and contrast it to those ordinary people who slave away in the systems is a very good one! Keep it up!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:58 PM on 12/06/2007
- zooeyhall See Profile I'm a Fan of zooeyhall permalink

One just shakes his head in disbelief..

America the Beautiful? America the Greatest? USA number 1? Yeah...I suppose if you are Kravis and others of his ilk.

Sick sick SICK!!!

THIS is what a dumbed-down electorate, a dumbed-down media has brought to this country.

Orwell never imagined anything like this.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:30 PM on 12/06/2007
- godlessclif See Profile I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

I am a true proletarian.
tax the rich; feed the poor
till there are no rich no more!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzrUqAtUcpU

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:03 PM on 12/06/2007
- thepainter57 See Profile I'm a Fan of thepainter57 permalink

This is absolutely outrageous.
Kravis makes over $50,000.00 an hour 24/7 and pays less taxes than his maids.
Our Congressman and Senators should all be impeached right alongside Dubya and Dick.
Americans struggle with higher taxes, higher energy costs, and little to no healthcare.
I don't get how the rest of the world can be so envious of Americans.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 12/06/2007
- ErnestineBass See Profile I'm a Fan of ErnestineBass permalink


Working class Americans need to see EVERY ONE of Robert Greenwald's films.

The man is a gifted teller of the truth.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:21 PM on 12/06/2007
- BuzzingAlong See Profile I'm a Fan of BuzzingAlong permalink

According to Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chairman of Blackstone Group, "I can promise you all that this is not true and that my wife and children were not ashamed to have me sit with them at the Thanksgiving table on Thursday."

Of course they wouldn't be ashamed of him. People cut from the same cloth don't have problems with their own. Apples don't fall far from the tree.

I doubt that these people are even aware of the great unwashed masses who suffer from their plundering. I'm sure those blacked out windows of their large luxurious chauffeur driven limo blocks the view of all those poor foks just schlepping along.







    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:18 PM on 12/06/2007
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