Thursday, 21st June 2007: The Corporation @ CIJ

THE CORPORATION

WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

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.

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, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. In this documentary, the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation’s increasing preeminence are examined. The film invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. Based on screenwriter Joel Bakan’s book /The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power/.

If you can spare 2 hours to watch this movie and join in our discussion, come over to our office with your friends.

ON: 21th June 2007 (THURSDAY)
IN: CIJ Office @ No. 27C, Jln Sarikei, Off Jln Pahang, 53000 Kuala Lumpur.
AT: 7PM
ADMISSION: FREE
RATED: “U” ALL CAN COME’LAH)

contact Sivan @ 016-9708370 or call CIJ office @ 03-40230772