 | THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation? 1. The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order, please click on: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [2/23] Birth 2. How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century, the corporation is given more and more rights while people are increasingly stripped of theirs. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [5/23] Case Histories 5. Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the corporation an externality-creating machine. Externalities such as harm to employees through the use of sweatshops: the exploitation of Third World countries' employees resulting in a huge discrepancy of price versus cost. Other externalities such as pollution and adverse health effects emerge. These include the genesis of the petrochemical industry and links to cancer, birth defects and other toxic effects. Another externality is harm to the biosphere or the environmental costs resulting from the way corporations operate, costs that will be passed off to future generations. Have we created a doom machine? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training 11. Marketing has transformed itself into a sophisticated, pervasive force that extends into every part of our lives. Slick advertising campaigns are designed for the express purpose of manipulating children into buying products and training them to become mindless consumers of goods they don't really want. The Nag factor, a marketing study that evaluated the effect of nagging, was designed to teach children how to nag more effectively. Consumers are made, not born. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [3/23] A Legal "Person" 3. Having acquired rights of immortal persons, what kind of person is the corporation? By law, the corporation can only consider the interests of their shareholders. It is legally bound to put its bottom line before everything else, even the public good. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | The Corporation selected clips Selected clips Courtesy Big Picture Media Corporation. www.thecorporation.com Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change. Directed by MARK ACHBAR and JENNIFER ABBOTT Produced by MARK ACHBAR and BART SIMPSON Edited by JENNIFER ABBOTT Written by JOEL BAKAN with Narration Written by HAROLD CROOKS and MARK ACHBAR Narrator MIKELA J. MIKAEL Based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by JOEL BAKAN Co-Producers CARI GREEN - NATHAN NEUMER - TOM SHANDEL Commissioning Editor, TVO RUDY BUTTIGNOL Associate Producers JOEL BAKAN and DAWN BRETT Archival Researcher PAULA SAWADSKY Sound Designer & Music Supervisor VELCROW RIPPER Original Music LEONARD J. PAUL Music by YO LA TENGO - DAVID WILCOX - UZUME TAIKO - TRANSMO - THIRD EYE TRIBE - SHAWN PINCHBECK - MORGAN/NELKEN - ANDY MCNEILL - THE MAZEGUIDER - LOUD - LOSCIL - JEREMIAH KLEIN - HIGHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCY & BIOSPHERE - INTERMISSION - GRANNY - ARK - DOMAKESAYTHINK - SEAN D. ANDREWS - MITCHELL AKIYAMA - ACCENT MUSIC PRODUCTIONS - THE BUGBREEDER - FREAKY DNA - UNSPOKEN Director of Corporate Communications KATHERINE DODDS - GOOD COMPANY COMMUNICATIONS Created by MARK ACHBAR and JOEL BAKAN Executive Producer MARK ACHBAR |
 | THE CORPORATION [8/23] Mindset 8. The profit motive drives the actions of the corporation and creates a mindset of competition and anything goes. Meet corporate spy and self-described predator Marc Barry as he describes his tactics for gathering intelligence from competing corporations. Juxtapose his attitude with Ray Anderson, President of Interface, who, in an epiphanic moment, realized he was a plunderer and it was only a matter of time before the law figures it out. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | - The Corporation - Birth - 1of14 The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power - Legal Person - 2of14 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCsBPMZokU Birth Opening sequence with corporate entities looking in on office workers. The beginning of the modern corporation is detailed starting with Ray Anderson, the CEO of Interface, the world's largest modular carpet manufacturer. He explains that the corporation began in 1712, when Thomas Newcomen invented a steam driven pump to increase the productivity and output of coal mines. The desire to increase product output per man hour, be it steel, pens, or computer chips, led to the modern corporation and the modern industrialized world. Noam Chomsky then explains the historical function of a corporation. In the past, individual states in the United States issued charters which stipulated what, where, and for how long a corporation could last in order to protect the public good. Richard Grossman states that in early America, the common viewpoint was that the corporation is a subordinate entity which is considered a gift from the people to help the general public. According to Howard Zinn, this all changed after the American Civil War, when the Fourteenth Amendment was passed to help insure the rights of former black slaves. Corporate lawyers saw this as an opportunity to increase their powers considerably, by claiming that a corporation is in fact a sort of person who is being deprived of their rights. Mary Zepernick of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy further states that between 1890 and 1910 there were 307 cases brought to the Supreme Court dealing with the 14th amendment. Out of the 307 only 19 cases were made by African Americans, while the other 288 came from corporate lawyers seeking "equal" rights for their corporate entities. are you informed http://truth-tv.org magical brew of musical stew http://beautifulevil.net |
 | THE CORPORATION [4/23] Externalities 4. What is an externality? Milton Friedman describes it as the effect of a transaction between two parties on a third party who is not involved in the transaction. A technical sounding term that basically means let somebody else deal with the problems the corporation creates. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
 | THE CORPORATION [19/23] Taking The Right Side 19. The rise of fascism has links to corporate power. American corporations played a role in Nazi Germany and the holocaust, such as IBM's punchcard machines that tabulated the victims' data. Corporate allegiance to profit trumps their allegiance to nationalism. |
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