TSF on corporations 2/28 and the spring schedule

The next Triangle Socialist Forum is Thursday, February 28th, at 7pm in the large downstairs meeting room at the Chapel Hill Public Library.  The topic is the origin of corporate power and how it subverts democracy.  To get into this, the group is showing part of The Corporation, which is 2 1/2 hours long, so we only have time
to see excerpts for debate.

For more on The Corporation, below is a review, posted at:

www.amazon.com/Corporation-Ray-Anderson-II/dp/B0007DBJM8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1202272506&sr=1-1

 

From The New Yorker

America's dominant institution gets a thorough
"Frontline"-like going over in this documentary based
on Joel Bakan's best-selling exposé. The film looks at
corporations as legal entities and examines their
manipulative business practices in interviews with
C.E.O.s, whistle-blowers, and media figures such as
Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Ray Anderson, and Noam
Chomsky [as well as Milton Friedman, etc.]. And, in
what turns out to be a depressingly accurate
observation, the filmmakers compare the behavior of
corporations to that of psychopaths. Despite constant
revelations, the film's nearly two-and-a-half-hour
running time is exhausting-that's a lot of bad news to
process. -Bruce Diones

Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

 

Upcoming topics:

 

March - Who benefits from the "War on Terror?"  - focusing on businesses that have benefited, in addition to politicians and any other constituencies.

 

April - 30 years of revolution and reaction in Afghanistan - A presentation on the Afghan Revolution in April 1978, US and Soviet interference, and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism and discussion of an Afghan-Soviet propaganda film, April Revolution. 

 

More local, economic, and international issue discussions to come. Meetings are currently usually on fourth Wednesdays at the Chapel Hill Public Library (off Estes Dr. near Franklin St.), though we might start meeting in Durham again and possibly at a different time.   

 

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