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Synopsis: Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
Director(s): Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott (co-director)
Production: Zeitgeist Films
  12 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2003
145 min
$1,350,094
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and global morality.

My inner voice says

honour my inner child

Mine says love everyone

My inner voice says

Id like a Wendy's

Bacon mushroom melt

They're there because

they understand.

The market requires

them to be there.

That's their competitive

advantage to be there.

I'm listening

to your concerns.

I worry about climate.

I worry about pollution.

I do not have all

the answers to this

but we are prepared to work

with you with society

with NGOs with

governments to address it.

So you're build the trust

so that you come back to

a new kind of trust

and then the ultimate

goal is then

to become

the corporation of choice.

He believes that almost half

our energy can one day come

from renewable sources.

He's been called

a dreamer and a crank.

And I've been

called a hippie.

And more recently

a project manager for Shell.

I ask myself

often times why

so many companies

subscribe to

corporate social responsibility.

I'm not sure it's because

they necessarily

want to be responsible

in an ultimate way

but because

they want to be

identified and seen

to be responsible.

But who am I to judge?

Who am I to judge?

It's better that they

belong than they not belong.

It's better that they make

some public profession

than the opposite.

Social responsibility

isn't a deep shift

because its

a voluntary tactic.

A tactic

a reaction to a certain

market at this point.

And as the corporation reads

the market differently

it can go back.

One day you

see Bambi

next day

you see Godzilla.

How do you define

socially responsible?

What business is it

of the corporation to decide

what's socially responsible.

That isn't

their expertise

that isn't what their

stockholders ask them to do.

So I think they're going

out of their range

and its certainly

is not democratic.

I don't really care

what the chairman

of General Motors thinks

is an appropriate

level of emissions

to come out the tailpipe

of General Motors automobiles.

He may have a lot

of scientists

he may be

a very good person

but I didn't elect

him to do anything.

He doesn't have any

power to speak for me.

These are decisions that must

be made by government

and not by corporations.

You take this to its

logical conclusion.

One would have an image

that we are in fact at this

the end of the world

this nigh.

And we are all

completely brainwashed

and there is

no space left.

And I don't believe

we're there yet.

And I think it's

really important

that we don't

overstate the case

and that we admit that

there are cracks

and fissures in all of these

corporate structures.

And sometimes when

a corporation is concentrating

on one particular project

they look the other way

and all kinds of interesting

things happen in the corner.

It is the case in every period

of history where injustice

based on falsehoods

based on taking away the right

and freedoms of people

to live and survive

with dignity

that eventually when you call

a bluff the tables turn.

Ultimately capital puts

its foot down somewhere.

And anywhere

it puts its foot down

it can be held

accountable.

Originally Wal-Mart and

Kathy Lee Gifford had said

why should we believe you that

children work in this factory?

What we didn't tell them

was that Wendy Dias

in the centre of the

picture was on a plane

to the United States.

This is Wendy Dias.

She comes

to the United States.

She's unstoppable.

Congress heard testimony

today from children who

testified they were exploited

by sweatshops overseas.

Kathy Lee Gifford

apologized to Wendy Dias

It was the most

amazing thing Id seen.

This powerful celebrity

leans over and says

Wendy please believe me

I didn't know these

conditions existed.

And now that I do I'm

going to work with you.

I'm going to work

with these other people

and it'll never

happen again.

And that night we signed

an agreement

with Kathy Lee Gifford.

I thought it would be

a relatively easy process

and it isn't.

As for every question

I have there seem to be

five questions that

come back tome.

As far as Wal-Mart

goes and Kathy Lee

pretty much everything returned

to sweatshop conditions

but because this was fought out

on television for weeks

this incident with Kathy Lee

Gifford actually

took the sweatshop issue

took every single part

of the country.

And so frankly

after that

there's hardly a single

person in this country

who doesn't know

about child labour

or sweatshops or

starvation wages.

So what wanted to do is

to look at the very roots

of the legal form that

created this beast

and wanted to think who

can hold them accountable.

They're not

graven in stone.

They can be dismantled.

And in fact most

states have laws

which require that

they be dismantled.

For too long now

giant corporations

have been allowed

to undermine democracy here

in the United States

and all over the world.

But today the Inn National

Lawyer's Guild

and 29 other groups

and individuals

are fighting back.

We are calling upon State

Attorney General Dan Lungren

to comply

with California law

and to revoke

the corporate charter

of the Union Oil

Company of California

for its repeated

and grievous offences.

This is the statute

that is well-known.

It has been used.

It can be used.

What this will mean

is the dissolution

of the Union Oil Company

of California

the sale of its assets

under careful court orders

to others who will carry

on in the public interest.

This is nothing more

than a smear campaign.

This company has been part

of California's economy

for over 100 years

thousands of jobs.

Doesn't mean it's never

made any mistakes

paid for those mistakes

but this demonizing

of accompany

I think I am in a time

warp or something

that I fell asleep

and woke up 50 years ago

and we heard that

kind of rhetoric.

Well we have a very very

broad set of people angry

very angry at

this corporation

well people from

the left of the spectrum

who don't produce anything

except hot air.

From its complicity

in unspeakable

human rights

violations overseas

against women gays labourers

and indigenous peoples

to its efforts to subvert

U.S. Foreign policy

and deceive the courts

the public and

its own stockholders

Unocal is emblematic

of corporate abuse

and corporate power

run amok

...is immoral.

Unocal cannot

do business in Burma

without supporting

that hopeless regime...

The curse for me has been

the fact that in making these

you know documentary films

I've seen that they

actually can impact change

so I'm just compelled

to just keep making them.

Yep that's me

doing what I do

All year long I give big

companies a hard time

but at Christmas time I like

to set aside my differences

and reach out to big business

like cigarette companies.

Deck the Halls with

boughs of holly...

fa la la la la

la la la

I went to Littleton

Colorado

where the Columbine

shooting took place

and I didn't

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Joel Bakan

Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is an American-Canadian writer, jazz musician, filmmaker, and professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.Born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan, where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan State University. In 1971, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983), Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984) and Harvard University (LLM, 1986). He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson in 1985. During his tenure as clerk, Chief Justice Dickson authored the judgment R. v. Oakes, among others. Bakan then pursued a master's degree at Harvard Law School. After graduation, he returned to Canada, where he has taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. He joined the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 1990 as an associate professor. Bakan teaches Constitutional Law, Contracts, socio-legal courses and the graduate seminar. He has won the Faculty of Law's Teaching Excellence Award twice and a UBC Killam Research Prize.Bakan has a son from his first wife, Marlee Gayle Kline, also a scholar and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. Professor Kline died of leukemia in 2001. Bakan helped establish The Marlee Kline Memorial Lectures in Social Justice to commemorate her contributions to Canadian law and feminist legal theory. He is now married to Canadian actress and singer Rebecca Jenkins. His sister, Laura Naomi Bakan is a provincial court judge in British Columbia, and his brother, Michael Bakan, is an ethnomusicologist. more…

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