For MLK Day Robert Greenwald Gives Us a New Film: War on Greed


­­ Rockford IL is a working class tow­n that has been hit hard by the predatory private equity industry. Robert Greenwald and his company BraveNewFilms focus on the Gunite plant, which was part of a company th­at was bought out, gutted, and sold for a $79.8 million profit by Henry Kravis, head of the buyout firm KKR. Workers expose the unfairness of Kravis earning more in an hour than they do in a year....and paying a lower tax rate on that income. The footage is interspersed with quotes from Dr. King.