"The Corporation" - the movie.....everyone needs to check this out...

[chenGOD]

THECORPORATION.COM

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this movie looks like it will be a great movie to watch in addition to F911. As a matter of fact, I'd say this might be more important than F911 to many people on here....(due to the fact that many on DU know all sorts of stuff being shown in F911).

What do you think?

[chenGOD]

1. Kick...shameless...

:kick:

Come on folks..do yourselves a favour and check this out....

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. Sounds interesting...

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.

[tilsammans]

3. Thanks for posting this

I wasn't aware of it at all. I'm putting it on my must-see list.

[chenGOD]

4. One more kick for the people in the other part of the world from me..read

this. From the CEO of one of the world's largest carpet companies:

“If we’re successful, we’ll spend the rest of our days harvesting yester year’s carpets and other petrochemically derived products, and recycling them into new materials; and converting sunlight into energy; with zero scrap going to the landfill and zero emissions into the ecosystem. And we’ll be doing well … very well … by doing good. That’s the vision.”

[CanuckAmok]

5. The Director, Mark Akbar, also made "Manufacturing Consent"...

...a few years ago for the National Film Board of Canada. It's also excellent, whether you're a Chomsky fan or not.

It's actually called "Manugacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media".

You might find it in your local library...

[chenGOD]

6. Yeah I already own that one...

:) It's great. Nice supplement to the book.