The Corporation Page #14
and global morality.
honour my inner child
Mine says love everyone
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 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.
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
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
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
based on falsehoods
based on taking away the right
and freedoms of people
to live and survive
with dignity
that eventually when you call
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
I didn't know these
conditions existed.
And now that I do I'm
going to work with you.
I'm going to work
and it'll never
happen again.
And that night we signed
an agreement
with Kathy Lee Gifford.
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
Gifford actually
took the sweatshop issue
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
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
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
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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