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Robert Greenwald and his Brave New Films go to Afghanistan.

Joseph Raglione
March 12, 2009
Gentle readers of the American chronicle, I hope he does not get himself killed!

Robert Greenwald is going to Afghanistan in order to help your new government, and mine, rethink Afghanistan. He needs our help to send him there. Yes, please send him what you can because if Mr. Greenwald can help to halt the escalation of fighting over there, the Man deserves every single penny we can give him.

Dear Joseph,

Did you know there is an Afghan peace movement? Have you read any Afghan bloggers? What about the members of Afghanistan's parliament who are both anti-Taliban and opposed to U.S. military escalation? As our Rethink Afghanistan documentary gathers steam, we want to bring you all the experts on this war: Andrew Bacevich, Anand Gopal, Stephen Kinzer, Rory Stewart, and perhaps most critically, Afghan voices.

For that reason, it has become increasingly apparent to me that I should travel to Afghanistan. I want to meet with some of the people and organizations, conduct in-person interviews, and gain a better understanding of the war. To get the most out of this filmmaking journey, I need your help.

Can you contribute $20 so we can hire a local camera crew and arrange for interviews, researchers, transcriptions, and translators? By contributing $20 or more, you will be recognized as a Producer on this full-length documentary. If we raise $25,000 by this Friday, March 13, your contribution will be matched two-for-one by gracious donors. To better understand how valuable your contribution is to helping us create this documentary, watch this video.


I know there are serious security issues regarding my Afghanistan trip, but let me assure you we are taking every possible precaution. I appreciate your concern. I want to hear your questions, comments, and suggestions for my travels. Post your thoughts and I will use them in my interviews and discussions.

And to keep you abreast of my trip, I will be posting my Twitter and blog updates directly to the website. You can also sign up for real time e-mail alerts.

Help us raise the critical questions around the costs of war, troops, terrorism, women's rights, and Pakistan by contributing to this filmmaking process. Enable us to delve deeper and convey a more complete Afghan perspective.

Yours,

Robert Greenwald

and the Brave New Foundation team

P.S. Thanks to your tremendous efforts over 25,000 people have already signed the petition calling for congressional oversight hearings on Afghanistan. Many people are deeply concerned about this war and Rethink Afghanistan is raising the questions oversight hearings should address. Please continue to spread the word about part one of the documentary and help get this petition to 30,000 signatures.

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!