Noen ganger blir det nok snakk om skadelige effekter av frihandel og valutaspekulasjon – og da er ingenting bedre enn en god politisk film for litt avveksling, diskusjonsgrunnlag og for en nærmere kikk på verden.
Filmer vi har vist
- The Corporation, amerikansk dokumentar fra 2003. Imdb.com skriver: “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…”
- The War on Democracy, britisk dokumenter fra 2008. Imdb.com skriver: “Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America’s manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free themselves from poverty and racism. Since the mid 19th Century Latin America has been the ‘backyard’ of the US, a collection of mostly vassal states whose compliant and often brutal regimes have reinforced the ‘invisibility’ of their majority peoples…”
- Black Gold, britisk dokumentar fra 2007. Imdb.com skriver: “As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar coffee industry, Black Gold traces one man’s fight for a fair price.”
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, amerikansk dokumentar. Imdb.com skriver: “Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama, from suicide to 20,000 people sacked: the personalities dominate. Along the way, we watch Enron game California’s deregulated electricity market, get a free pass for the dubious mark-to-market accounting, use greed to manipulate banks and brokerages, and hear from both Presidents Bush what great guys these are”
