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Oxford meeting to discuss The Corporation and take action.

Corporate Watch | 08.11.2004 11:43 | Oxford

Seen the film 'The Corporation'. Inspired to do something about corporate power? Come along to a public meeting to discuss the film adn ways we can take action.

16th November 7.30
Friends Meeting House - 43 St Giles


The Corporation is a great new documentary film about corporate poer, showing now at the Phoenix in Oxford.
At the meeting we'll show the 15 minute version of the film - for anyone who didn't get a chance to see it - and discuss the issues raised. We'll have speakers from Corporate Watch and other local groups working on the issue, and we'll talk about ways people are coming together to resist corporate power and what we can do in Oxford.
Please come along. All welcome.
The event is free. Optional donations to cover cost of booking the room.


Corporate Watch is an Oxford based research group working to expose the lies profiteering criminality and corruption of multinational comapnies. Corporate Watch has a project looking at the structure of corporations and the way the legal framework they operate in predicates them to socially and environmentally destructive behaviour. Have a look at our report at:
www.corporatewath.org.uk/publications/corporate_structures.org.uk


About the film
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.



See you there


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Corporate Watch
- e-mail: mail@corporatewatch.org
- Homepage: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk

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Review

10.11.2004 11:05

For a review of "The Corporation", see my own!

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/10/300137.html

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