"The Corporation" . . . yet another documentary . . .

[OneBlueSky]

analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on our planet, and what people are doing in response. Based on Joel Bakan's book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" . . .

http://www.thecorporation.tv/

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy history. In this complex and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation’s increasing preeminence. Based on Bakan’s book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, the film is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the 4corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn and many others, THE CORPORATION charts the spectacular rise of an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.

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[CrispyQ]

1. I can't believe people aren't outraged about corporate personhood! eom

[redqueen]

2. Oh we are

At least, I am. I know many others are as well.

I need to see that movie...

[goodhue]

3. www.thecorporation.com

Here is another link to website for film . . .
http://www.thecorporation.com/

I saw it here in Mpls two months ago--very long but well worth it. Here is blurb from fest catalog . . .

http://www.mnfilmarts.org/mspiff2004/films/corporation.html

Canada 2003

Directed: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Written: Harold Crooks, Joel Bakan, Mark Achbar; based on the book by Joel Bakan
Edited: Jennifer Abbot
Photographed: Jørgen Johansson
Narrated: Mikela J. Mikael

Entertaining, thought-provoking, and absolutely essential. Taking the recent corporate excesses and damaging scandals as a point of departure, Abbott and Achbar chart the history of growing corporate dominance in our lives, from the origin of the corporation as a publicly regulated institution 150 years ago, to its present status as a sometimes larger-than-governmental force that shapes social policy as well as conceptions of human functionality. Along the way, their film incorporates views of CEOs and economists, whistle-blowers and spies, insiders and outsiders, as well as global awareness activists and social critics, including Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore; and it provides bizarre historical evidence of corporate connections to the emancipation of American slaves and Hitler's death camps. What kind of entity has the world wrought, and who are its Frankensteins? In its assemblage of views, the film helps us examine not only the central corporate paradox--how the creation of wealth that is made possible by corporate activity is often purchased through unexamined social harm--but also the nature of the victories against this apparently omnipresent and still mysterious force of world economic power.

Mark Achbar's directorial debut was 1992's Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (a UFS hit); Jennifer Abbot has been a documentary filmmaker and cultural activist, and her first film, A Cow at My Table, won many prizes throughout North America. (145 minutes)

[Hotler]

4. Most people have given up after being

beat down by the man for so long. The sheeple are controlled. We're beaten down as labor, as consumers, taxpayers, and fed mass doses of propaganda by the media. To cite Jim Hightowers' news letter "The Lowdown vol. 5, No. 4 April 2003 "Jefferson, Madison, and others knew that corporations are inherently anti-democratic constructs of the wealthy elite, allowing the controlling investors to do two things: 1. amass more money than the public can muster- money to elevate their private interest above the good; and 2. absolve them from responsibility for the damage done by their corporation."

[Imperialism Inc.]

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