The Yes Men

With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed- hook, line and sinker- the Yes Men must up the satirical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights! Click on the "CC" button to remove the Czech subtitles. 82 min. Source page here.

The Corporation

The best film on the malignant nature of the corporate structure. If we are to find a way out of the economic crisis, we must build new structures that can respond to social needs.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Beginning with a short film that illustrates the concepts of her new book, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. What has been done in other countries may happen in the U.S. next. Katrina was the test run. Be on the alert for the next great disaster to be used for the violent imposition of their agenda. Klein sites four examples from recent history: Chile after the coup by Pinochet, Thacher's privatization of Great Britain during the Falklands war, China after the Tienanmen square massacre, and Boris Yeltsin's attack on the Russian parliament. Klein urges us to become "shock resistant". Download Intro - Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the shocking memoir of John Perkins. In this video he explains how U.S. corporate interests maintain a world-wide empire without armys of occupation. He tells of his journey from willing servant of empire to impassioned advocate for the rights of oppressed people. Covertly recruited by the U.S. National Security Agency and on the payroll of an international consulting firm, he traveled throughout the 3rd world to promote U.S. corporate interests. While professing to alleviate poverty, these policies only served to burden these nations with massive debts and exploitation of their resources. When political leaders refused to go along with these plans, they were overthrown, assassinated or subject to invasion. Within a few weeks of its release, his book landed on The New York Times and 19 other bestseller lists. More about the book here. 45 min.

The Globalization Tapes

Shot by Indonesian workers using their own suppressed history as a case study, this film traces the development of contemporary globalization from its roots in colonialism. Through chilling first-hand accounts, hilarious improvised interventions, collective debate and archival collage, "The Globalization Tapes" exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the "global economy", and explores the relationships between trade, third-world debt, and international institutions like the IMF and the World Trade Organization.
A grandfather demonstrates his favored technique of holding union activists upside down in flooded fields. Plantation workers stage a satirical commercial for the pesticide that poisons them. The filmmakers pose as World Bank agents with brutal and absurd offers to 'develop' local businesses.
The Globalization Tapes is a testament to the intelligence, humor, integrity and creativity of its makers and their community.
"If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine." - Su Karman, narrator and President of the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra.