All language subtitles for The Corporation 2004 Part 2.Engilsk

Today the job of building
this nation geographically

is completed.

There are no new frontiers
within or borders.

So to what new horizons
can we look now?

Where are tomorrows
opportunities?

What's ahead for you
for your children?

The frontiers of the
future are not on any map.

They�re in the test
tubes and laboratories

of the great industries.

The Chakrabarty case is one of
the great judicial moments

in world history.

And the public
was totally unaware

it was actually happening as
a process was being engaged.

General Electric
and Professor Chakrabarty

went to the patent office
with a little microbe

that eats up oil spills.

They said they had modified
this microbe in the laboratory

and therefore it
was an invention.

The patent office and
the U. S. Government

took a look at this
quote invention;

they said no way.

The patent statures don�t
cover living things.

This is not an invention.

Turned down.

Then General Electric and
Doctor Chakrabarty

appealed to the U. S. Customs
Court of Appeal.

And to everyone�s surprise
by a three to two decision

they overrode
the patent office.

They said this
microbe looks more

like a detergent
or a reagent

than a horse or a honeybee.

I laugh because they didn�t
understand basic biology;

it looked like a
chemical to them.

Had it had an antenna or
eyes or wings or legs

it would never have crossed
their table and been patented.

Then the patent
office appealed.

And what the public
should realize now

is the patent office
was very clear

that you cant
patent life.

My organization provided
the main amicus curiae brief

if you allow the patent on
this microbe we argued

it means that without any
congressional guidance

or public discussion

corporations will own
the blueprints of life.

When they made the decision
we lost by five to four

and Chief Justice
Warren said

sure some of these
are big issues

but we think this
is a small decision.

Seven years later
the U. S. Patent office issued

a one sentence decree

you can patent anything
in the world that�s alive

except a full birth
human being.

We�ve all been hearing
about the announcement

that we have mapped
the human genome.

But what the public
doesn�t know

is now there�s this great
race by genomic companies

and biotech companies
and life science companies

to find the treasure
in the map.

The treasure are
the individual genes

that make up the blueprint
of the human race.

Every time they capture
agene and isolate it

these biotech companies

they claim it as
intellectual property.

The breast cancer gene

the cystic fibrosis gene

it goes on and
on and on.

If this goes unchallenged in
the world community

within less than 10years

a handful of global
companies will own

directly or through license

the actual genes that make up
the evolution of our species.

And they�re now beginning
to patent the genomes

of every other creature
on this planet.

In the age of biology the
politics is going to sort out

between those who believe life
first has intrinsic value

and therefore we should
choose technologies

and commercial venues

that honour
the intrinsic value...

And then we're going
to have people who believe

look life is
a simple utility.

It's commercial fare

and they will line up
with the idea

to let the marketplace be
the ultimate arbiter

of all of the age
of biology.

In a world economy where
information is filtered

by global media corporations

keenly attuned to their
powerful advertisers

who will defend
the publics right to know?

And what price must be
paid to preserve our ability

to make informed choices?

What Fox Television told us
was that we were just the people

to be the investigators.

Do any stories you want

ask tough questions
and get answers.

So we thought

this is great
this is a dream job.

Fantastic.

The very first
thing they had us do

was not to research stories

but to shoot this
promo which was...

The Investigators.

Uncovering the truth

getting results
protecting you.

and they had a film
crew a smoke machine

were silhouetted...

One of the first stories
that Jane came up with

was the revelation
that most of the milk

in the state of Florida

and throughout much of the
country was adulterated

with the effects of bovine
growth hormone

with Monsanto I didn�t realize
how effectively a corporation

could work to get something
on the marketplace.

The levels of coordination
they had to have.

They had to get university
professors into the fold.

They had to get
experts into the fold.

They had to get
reporters into the fold

They had to get
the public into the fold

and of course the FDA
lets not leave them out.

They had to get the federal
regulators convinced

that this was
a fine and safe product

to get it onto the
marketplace.

And they did that;

they did that
very very well.

Posilac is a single most
tested product in history

and is now available
to you specifically.

so you can increase
your profit potential.

The federal government
basically rubber stamped it

before they put it
on the marketplace.

The longest test they
did for human toxicity

was 90 days on thirty rats.

And then either Monsanto
misreported the results

to the FDA

or the FDA didn�t bother
to look in depth

at Monsanto�s own studies.

The scientists within Health
Canada looked very carefully

at bovine growth hormone

and came to very
different conclusions

than the Food and Drug
Administration in the U. S. Did

Monsanto's engineered
growth hormone did not comply

with safety requirements.

it could be absorbed
by the body

and therefore did have
implications for human health.

Mysteriously that
conclusion was deleted

from the final published
version of their report...

I personally
was very concerned

that there�s a very serious
problem of secrecy

conspiracy and things
of that nature.

We have been pressured
and coerced

to pass drugs of
questionable safety

including RB ST.

We wrote the story.

We had it ready a
week beforehand.

They bought ads

...farmers in the milk
industry say it's safe

but studies suggest
a link to cancer.

Don�t miss this special report
from The Investigators...

That Friday night before the
Monday the series was to begin

the fax machine
spit out a letter

from this very high priced
lawyer in New York

that Monsanto had hired.

It contained a lot of
things that were just

off-the-wall false

Just demonstrably false

but if you didn�t
know the story

and you didn�t know how
wed gone about producing

it would have scared
you as a broadcaster

or as a manager.

And they decided that they
would pull the story

and they would just check
it one more time.

But the bottom line was that
there was no factual errors

in that story.

Both sides had been
heard from

both sides had had an
opportunity to speak.

One week later

Monsanto sent
the second letter

and this was even
more strongly worded.

And it said there will be dire
consequences for Fox News

if the story airs
in Florida.

And this time
they freaked.

They were afraid
of being sued

and losing
advertising dollars.

And all of the stations
owned by Rupert Murdoch.

And he owned more television
stations than any

other group in America.

That�s 22
television stations.

That�s a lot of
advertising dollars.

For Round Up Aspartame
Nutra Sweet

and other products.

So we got into
a battle.

And uh the first deal was
the new general manager

his name's Dave and
Dave is a salesman.

And you know
he�d pump your hand

how ya doin
how ya doin?

Called us upstairs to
his office and he said

what would you say if
I killed this piece?

what if it never ran?

And we said
well you know

we wouldn�t be very
happy about that.

And he said well I
could kill it you know

and we said yes of
course you�re the manager

you could kill it
it would never air.

And he hemming
and he showing.

He�s back
and he�s forth.

And we couldn�t figure out
what is this all about

and finally
he blurted out

look would
you tell anybody?

You know I said I�m
not going to lie for you.

And about a week later he
calls us back to the office

and says okay wed like you
to make these changes.

In fact you will
make these changes.

We said well look let us
show you the research

that we have that
shows that this information

you want us to
broadcast isn�t true.

To which he replies.

I don�t care about that.

I said pardon me?

And he said well that�s
what I have lawyers for

just write it the way the
lawyers want it written.

I said you know
this is news

this is important.

This is stuff
people wanted to know.

And I�ll never forget he
didn�t pause a beat

and he said

we just paid three
billion dollars

for these
television stations

Well tell you what
the news is.

The news is what
we say it is.

I said I�m not
doing that.

and and he said

Well he said if you refuse
to present this story

the way we think it
should be presented

you�ll be fired
for insubordination.

I said I will go to the Federal
Communications Commissions

and I will report that
I was fired from my job by you

the licensee of these
public airwaves

because I refused to lie
to people on the air.

And it's thank you very much
you�ll hear from us right away.

Well 24 hours came and went
and we didn�t hear a thing.

And about a week later
he calls us back

and now we�ve
changed strategies.

How about if we
pay you some money

and you just go away?

And I said
how much money?

because when somebody
offers to bribe you like that

I always want to know if
it might be worth it.

He was going to offer us the
rest of our years salary

if we agreed not to talk about
what Monsanto had done

To not talk about the Fox
corporate response

in suppressing the story.

And to not talk
about the story.

Not talk about B G H
again anywhere.

Not take this story to
another new organization.

Zip up.

I said you mean if I want to go
to my daughter's PTA meetings

and explain what�s
in the school milk

at the school lunch
program I cant?

No you can never speak
about this anywhere.

Steve says
okay write it up.

And I�m like what are you
talking about write it up?

And I didn�t say anything.

And Dave he wrote it
up and he FedEx it to us

a couple of days later.

And he said
are you going to sign?

And we said nah Dave
we're not going to sign that.

And he said well
send it back okay?

We said no Dave were
not going to send that back.

It was okay we
cant buy you out

we cant shut you up

lets get the story on the air
in a way that we can all agree

it will go on the air.

And we started rewriting and
editing with their lawyers.

During this eight month
re-review process

I say jokingly they did things
like for example they wanted

to take out
the word cancer.

You don�t have to identify
what the potential problem is

just say human
health implications.

Any criticism
of Monsanto or its product

they either removed
it or minimized it.

And it was very very
clear I would say

almost every edit
they made to the piece

that was the aim.

And we changed this
and this and this.

And then that
wasn�t good enough

okay now change
this and this.

Now change this and this.

Version after version
after version.

83 times.

83 times is unheard
of it doesn�t happen

you shouldn�t have to
rewrite something 83 times

Obviously they didn�t want
to put the thing on the air

and they were trying to drive us
crazy and get us to quit

or wait until the first
window in our contract

so that they
could fire us.

They in effect announced that
they were going to fire us

for no cause.

Well this was
a little much.

And Steve wrote a letter
to the lawyer in Atlanta

whose name is Caroline Forest
the Fox corporate lawyer.

And I said you know this isn�t
about being fired for no cause.

You're firing us because we
refused to put on the air

something that we knew and
demonstrated to be false

and misleading.

That�s what
this is about.

And because we
put up a fight

because we stood up
to this big corporation

and we stood up
to your editors

and we stood up
to your lawyers.

And we said to you

look there ought
to be a principle higher

than just making money.

And she wrote a
letter back and said

you are right that�s
exactly what it was.

You stood up
to us on this story

and that�s why
we're letting you go.

Big mistake

Big mistake

That says retaliation.

You cant retaliate
against employees

if they�re standing
up for something

that they believe is illegal

that they don�t want
to participate in.

So that gave us

the whistleblower
stats that wanted

in the state of Florida to
file a whistleblower claim

against our employer.

Two or three years
later we got the trial.

Five weeks of testimony led
to a jury verdict of $425000

in which the jury determined

that the story they
pressured us to broadcast

the story we resisted
telling was in fact false

distorted or slanted.

Fox News
appealed the verdict.

Five major news media
corporations filed briefs

with the court in support
of Fox appeal.

You may recall that Jane Akre
a former reporter here

sued Fox 13 in
a whistleblower lawsuit

claiming that
she was fired

for refusing
to distort her report;

the Appeals Court today
threw that case out

saying Ms. Akre had
no whistleblower claim

against the station
based on news distortion.

Fox 13vice president and
general manager Bob Linger

says the station
has been completely

vindicated by the ruling...

What Fox neglected
to report is this

Jane sued Fox under Florida�s
whistleblower statute

which protects those who try
to prevent others

from breaking the law.

Buther Appeal Court judges
found that falsifying news

isn�t actually
against the law.

So they denied Jane her
whistleblower stats

overturned the case and
withdrew her $425000 award.

Canada and Europe have
upheld the ban on RB G H.

But it remains hidden
in the milk supply

of the United States

The prospect that two thirds
of the worlds population

will have no access to fresh
drinking water by 2025

has provoked
the initial confrontations

in a world wide battle

for control over the planets
most basic resource.

When Bolivia sought
to refinance

the public water services
of its third largest city

the World Bank
required privatization

which is how the Bechtel
Corporation of San Francisco

gained control over all
of Cochabamba's water

even that which
fell from the sky.

The price this
beleaguered country paid

for World Bank loans

was the privatization
of the state oil industry

and its airline railroad
electric and phone companies.

But the government failed
to convince Bolivians

that water is
a commodity like any other.

Bolivia was determined

to defend
the corporations right

to charge families
living on $ 2 a day

as much as one quarter
of their income for water.

The greater the popular
resistance

to the water
privatization scheme

the more violent
became the standoff.

Translational corporations
have a long and dark history

of condoning tyrannical
governments.

I s it narcissism that compels
them to seek their reflection

in the regimented structures
of fascist regimes?

There was
an interesting connection

between the rise
of fascism in Europe

and the consciousness
of politically radical people

about corporate power.

Because there was are cognition

that fascism rose
in Europe

with the help of
enormous corporations.

Mussolini was greatly admired
all across the spectrum

business loved him
investment shot up.

Incidentally when
Hitler came in

in Germany the same
thing happened there

investment shot
up in Germany.

He had the work
force under control.

He was getting rid of dangerous
left wing elements.

Investment opportunities
were improving.

There was no problems.

These are
wonderful countries.

I think one of the greatest
untold stories

of the twentieth century

is the collusion
between corporations

especially in America
and Nazi Germany.

First in terms of how the
corporations from America

helped to essentially
rebuild Germany

and support the early
Nazi regime.

And then when
the war broke out

figured out a way to
keep everything going.

So General Motors was
able to keep Opal going

Ford was able to keep
their thing going

and companies like Coca Cola
they couldn�t keep

the Coca Cola going

so what they did was
they invented Fanta Orange

for the Germans

and that show Coke was
able to keep

their profits coming in

to Coca Cola.

So when you drink
Fanta Orange

that�s the Nazi drink

that was created so that Coke
could continue making money

while millions of people died.

When Hitler came
to power in 1933

his goal was to dismantle

and destroy the
Jewish community.

This was an enterprise
so vast

that it required the resources
of a computer.

But in 1933 there
was no computer

What there was

was the IBM
punch card system

which controlled
and stored information

based upon the holes
that were punched

in various rows
and columns.

Naturally there was
no off the shelf software

as there is today.

Each applicant was custom
designed and an engineer

had to personally
configure it.

Millions of people of
all religions nationalities

and characteristics
went through

the concentration
camp system.

That�s an extraordinary
traffic management program

that required
an IBM system

in every railroad
direction

and an IBM system in every
concentration camp.

Now this is a typical
prisoner card.

There are little boxes

where all the information
is to be punched in.

We compare this information
to the code sheet

for concentration camps.

And here you see
Auschwitz is one

Buchenwald is two

and Dachau is three.

Now what kinds of
prisoners were they?

They could be a Jehovah�s
witness for two

a homosexual for three
a communist for six

or a Jew for eight.

Now what was their stats?

One was released
two was transferred

four was executed

five was suicide

and six.
Code six

Sonderbahandlung

special treatment

meant the gas chamber
or sometimes a bullet.

They would punch
that number in

the material was tabulated

and the machines were set.

And of course the
punch cards by the millions

had to be printed.

And they were printed
exclusively by IBM

and the profits were
recovered just after the war

I really do believe that
particular accusation

has been fairly discredited
as a serious accusation.

They used equipment

that is a fact
but how they got it

how much co operation
they got

and any kind
of collusion

trying to connect dots
that are not connected

I think that�s the part
that is discredited.

Generally you sell computers

and they are used
in a variety of ways

and you always
hope they are

using the more
positive ways possible.

If you ever found out
they�re used in ways

that are not positive

then you would hope you
would stop supporting that

but you know do
you always know?

Can you always tell?

Can you always find out?

IBM would
of course say

they had no control over
its German subsidiaries.

But here on
October 9th 1941

a letter is being
written directly

to Thomas J. Watson
with all sorts of detail

of the activity of
the German subsidiary

none of these
machines were sold

they were all
leased by IBM.

They had to be serviced
on site once a month

even if that was
at a concentration camp.

This is a typical contract
with IBM and the Third Reich.

Which was instituted in 1942.

It's not with the Dutch
subsidiary

it's not with the German
subsidiary.

It is with IBM
corporation in New York.

You know as it happens
I know that story.

I discussed it more than once
with old Mr. Watson

and I was around
at the time.

I�m not saying that Watson
didn�t know

that the German government
used punch cards.

He probably did know

after all he had
very few customers.

Watson didn�t want
to do it.

It was not because he thought
it was immoral or not

but because Watson

with a very keen sense
of public relations

thought it was risky.

It should not surprise us that
corporate allegiance

to profits will trump their
allegiance to any flag.

A recent U. S. Treasury
Department report

revealed in one
week alone

57 U. S. corporations
were fined

for trading with official
enemies of the United States

including terrorists tyrants
and despotic regimes.

...you can roughly locate any
community somewhere along

a scale running all the way
from democracy to despotism.

This man makes it his job
to study these things....

Well for one thing

avoid the comfortable idea

that the mere form of
government can of itself

safeguard a nation
against despotism.

For big business despotism
was often a useful tool

for securing foreign markets
and pursuing profits.

One of the U. S. Marine corps
most highly decorated generals

Smedley Darlington Butler
by his own account

helped pacify Mexico
for American oil companies

Haiti and Cuba
for National City Bank

Nicaragua for the Brown
Brothers brokerage

the Dominican Republic
for sugar interests

Honduras for U. S.
Fruit companies

and China
for standard oil.

General Butlers services
were also in demand

in the United States
in the 1930s

as president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

sought to relieve
the misery

of the depression through
public enterprise

and to offer regulation
on corporate exploitation

and misdeeds.

more power to you
President Roosevelt

The entire country�s
behind you.

thrilled with hope
and patriotism...

But the country
was not entirely

behind
the populist president.

Large parts of
the corporate elite

despised what Roosevelt�s
new deal stood for.

And so in 1934

a group of conspirators
sought to involve

General Butler in
a treasonous plan.

..The plan as outlined tome
was to form an organization

of veterans to use as a bluff
or as a club at least

to intimidate
the government...

but the corporate cabal
had picked the wrong man.

Butler was fed up
being what he called

a gangster for capitalism.

... I appeared before
the Congressional Committee

the highest representation
of the American people

under subpoena to tell what
I knew of activities

which I believed might lead
to an attempt to set up

a fascist dictatorship.

The upshot of the whole
thing was that I was supposed

to lead an organization of
500000 men which would

be able to take over
the functions of government...

A Congressional Committee
ultimately found evidence

of a plot to overthrow
Roosevelt.

According to Butler
the conspiracy included

representatives of some
of Americas top corporations

including J. P. Morgan
Dupont and Goodyear tire.

As today's chairman
of Goodyear knows

for corporations
to dominate government

a coup is no
longer necessary.

Corporations have gone
global and by going global

the governments have lost
some control over corporations

regardless of whether
the corporation can be trusted

or can not be trusted

governments
today do not have

over the corporations
the power that they had

and the leverage they
had 50 or 60years ago.

And that�s a major change.

So governments have
become powerless

compared to what
they were before.

Capitalism today commands
the towering heights

and has displaced
politics and politicians

as the new high priests

and reigning
oligarchs of our system.

So capitalism and its principle
protagonists and players

corporate CEOs

have been accorded unusual
power and access.

This is not to deny the
significance of government

and politicians

but these are
the new high priests.

I was invited to
Washington D. C. to attend

this meeting that
was being put together

by the National
Security Agency called

the Critical
Thinking Consortium.

I remember standing
there in this room

and looking over
on one side of the room

and we had
the C IA N S A D IA FB I

Customs Secret Service

and then on the other
side of the room we had

Coca Cola Mobile Oil
GTE and Kodak.

And I remember thinking

I am in the epicentre

of the intelligence
industry right now.

I mean the line
is not just blurring

it just not
there any more.

And tome it

it spoke volumes
as to how

industry and government were
consulting with each other

and working
with each other.

As 34 nations of the western
hemisphere gathered

to draft a far reaching
trade agreement

one that would lay
the groundwork

to privatize every resource
and service imaginable

thousands of people

from hundreds
of grassroots organizations

joined to oppose it.

Canada�s top
business lobbyists

and its chief trade
representative

discount the dissent
in the streets.

For them the Americas
800 million citizens

speak with one voice.

I�m inside and
this is all outside.

That�s the way it is.

What do you think when
you look at this?

Well I mean I think
that it's too bad

that this has
this has erupted.

Does the ranted to be some
measure of accountability?

Yes

And I think the business
community recognizes that.

But that accountability
is in the marketplace

it's with
their shareholders.

It's with the public perception
and the public image

that they are projecting.

If companies don�t do what
they should be doing

they�re going to be
punished in the marketplace

and that�s not what
any company wants.

There�s a new market.

These guys and
gals aren�t out there

because governments
putting gun to their head.

Or because they�ve
suddenly read a book

about transcendental meditation
and global morality.

My inner voice says
honour my inner child

Mine says love everyone

My inner voice says

ld 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 N G Os 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 l 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 l 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 lnn 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 100years
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 50years 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 l 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
know this

but when I arrived I learned
what the primary job is

of the parents of the kids who
go to Columbine High School.

The number one job
in Littleton Colorado

They work
for Lockheed Martin

building weapons
of mass destruction.

But they don�t
see the connect

between what
they do for a living

and what their
kids do at school

or did at school

And so I�m kind of you
know up on my high horse

thinking about this
and I thought you know

I said to my wife

we both are sons and
daughters of auto workers

in Flint Michigan.

There isn�t a single one of
us back in Flint

any of us including us

who ever
stopped to think

this thing we do
for a living

the building
of automobiles

is probably
the single biggest reason

why the polar ice caps
are going to melt

and end civilization
as we know it.

There�s no connect between

I�m just an assembler on an
assembly line building a car

which is good
for people and society

and it moves
them around.

But never stop to think
about the larger picture

and the larger responsibility
of what were doing.

Ultimately we have to
as individuals

accept responsibility
for our collective action

and the larger harm that it
causes you know in our world.

Today the first of two
historic town hall meetings

will get underway
in Arcata California

61 percent of Arcatans
voted in favour

of publicly discussing

whether democracy is even
possible with large corporations

... so much wealth
and power under law.

They also voted
to form a committee

to ensure democratic control
over corporations in Arcata.

Corporations are
not accountable

to the democratic
process.

That is what
this is about.

I don�t want
to make decisions

about everything that goes
on in their corporation.

But l do have a
strong belief

that they don't need to be
held accountable to us.

If we don�t like
certain products

if we don�t like
Pepsi-Cola Bank of America

well if you don�t
like what they do

don�t use them.

That�s the way I see
the peoples power is.

You have a lot
more money than me

You have more
votes than l do

If we use the model of boycott
and voting with your dollars

that�s an
undemocratic situation.

What are we afraid of?

I mean are all the businesses
going to leave Arcata?

I don�t think so.

And if they did

wed deal with it or
wed figure it out

or wed do
something different.

We're creative people.

I just don�t see
why we are afraid.

If you think it's tough
making a decision

where to buy your
stuff today

how tough do you think
it is when there�s only

one provider
and it's the state.

And by the way

you don�t get to have
this little democracy forum

in those
communities either.

People that say that they
fear their govern meant

I really hope
that they understand

that they�re allowed to
participate in their government

they�re not allowed to
participate in anything

the corporations do.

So don�t fear
the government.

Help it be the government
that you wont fear.

If this many people around
the country would do this

instead of watching
Super bowl Sunday

our nation would be
controlled by the people

not by the corporations.

... no more chain restaurants
in Arcata after

a long awaited decision...

Over the past decade

we have been
gaining ground.

And when I say we

I mean ordinary
people committed

to the welfare
of all humanity.

All people irrespective
of gender and class

and race
and religion.

All species
on the planet.

We managed to take
the biggest government

and one of the largest
chemical companies to court

on the case of Neemand
win a case against them.

W. R. Grace and the U. S.
governments patent on Neem

was revoked by a case
we brought

along with the greens
of European parliament

and the international
organic agriculture movement.

We won because we
worked together.

We have overturned
nearly 99 percent

of the basmati patent
of Ricetek.

Again because we worked
as a world wide coalition

old women in Texas
scientists in India

activists sitting
in Vancouver

a little basmati
action group.

We stopped the third world
being viewed as the pirate

and we showed the corporations
were the pirate.

Look how little
it took for Gandhi

to work against the salt
laws of the British

where the British decided

the way they would
make their armies

and police forces bigger

is just
tax the salt.

And all that Gandhi did
was walk to the beach

pick up
the salt and say

nature gives it
for free.

Wanted it.
We�ve always made it.

We will violate
your laws.

We will continue
to make salt.

We�ve had a similar
commitment for

the last decade in India.

That any law that makes
it illegal to save seed

is a law not
worth following.

We will violate it because
saving seed is a duty

to the earth and
to future generations.

We thought it would
really be symbolic

It is more than symbolic.

It is becoming
a survival option.

Farmers who grow
their own seeds

save their own seeds

don�t buy pesticides

have threefold
more incomes

than farmers who are locked
into the chemical treadmill

depending on
Monsanto and Cargill

We have managed
to create alternatives

that work for people.

There are many tools
for bringing back community.

But the importance is
not the tools

I mean there�s litigation
there�s legislation

there�s direct action
there�s education boycotts

social investment...

There�s many many ways
to address issues

of corporate power.

But in the final analysis

what�s really important
is the vision.

You have to have
abetter story

Do I know you well enough to
call you fellow plunderers?

There is not an industrial
company on earth

not an institution
of any kind

not mine not yours
not anyone�s

that is sustainable.

I stand convicted by
me myself alone

not by anyone else

as a plunderer
of the earth

but not by our
civilizations definition.

By our civilization�s
definition

I'm a captain
of industry.

In the eyes of many
a kind of modern-day hero.

But really really

the first industrial
revolution is flawed

it is not working.

It is unsustainable.

It is the mistake

and we must
move on to another

and better
industrial revolution

and get it right
this time.

When I think
of what could be

I visualize an
organization of people

committed to a purpose

and the purpose
is doing no harm.

I see accompany

that has severed the
umbilical cord to earth

for its raw materials

taking raw materials that
have already been extracted

and using them over
and over again

driving that process
with renewable energy.

It is our plan

it remains our plan
to climb Mount Sustainability

that mountain that is
higher than Everest

infinitely higher
than Everest

far more
difficult to scale.

That point at the top
symbolizing zero footprint...

So we�ve got
to undo a lot of things

in order to be smart enough

to do this really dangerous
and risky and difficult work

you know the best way
that we possibly can.

And that means people coming
together and learning

a whole lot of stuff that
we just don�t know

that has been driven
out of the culture

driven out of the society
driven out of our minds.

That tome is the
most exciting thing.

That is happening

it's happening all
over the world now.

Sometimes it surprises me how
effective you can actually be.

After we beat the Gap

I walked past these
Gap stores

and I looked at them
and I think

my God there�s like 2000 of
these stores across the country.

Look at all that concrete
look at the glass

look at all the staff people
look at all the clothing.

Look at that power

You can still reach
these companies.

You can still
have an effect.

We can change
the government.

That�s the only way were
going tore design re think

re-constitute what capital
and property can do

Fifteen corporations would like
to control the conditions

of our life

and millions of people
are saying not only do

we not need you

we can do it better.

We are going to create systems
that nourish the earth

and nourish human beings.

And these are not
marginal experiments

they are the mainstay
of large numbers of

communities across the world.

That is where
the future lies.

You know I've always thought
it's very ironic

that I�m able to do all this
and yet what am I on?

I�m on networks.

I�m distributed by studios

that are owned by large
corporate entities.

Now why would they put me
out there when I am opposed

to everything that
they stand for?

And I spend my time
on their dime opposing

what they believe in.

Okay?

Well it's because they
don�t believe in anything.

They put me on there because
they know that there�s millions

of people that want to see
my film or watch the TV show

and so they�re
going to make money.

And I�ve been able to get
my stuff out there

because I�m driving
my truck through

this incredible
flaw in capitalism

the greed flaw.

The thing that says the rich
man will sell you the rope

to hand himself with

if he think she can
make a buck off it

well I�m the rope.

I hope.

I�m part of the rope.

And they also believe that
when people watch my stuff

or maybe watch this film
or whatever

they think that
you know

well you know
well you know what

they�ll watch this and
they wont do anything

because we�ve done such
a good job of numbing

their minds and
dumbing them down

you know they�ll
never affect...

People aren�t going
to leave the church

and go and do
something political.

They�re convinced of that.

I�m convinced
of the opposite.

I�m convinced
that a few people

are going to leave
this movie theatre

or get up off the couch

and go and do something

anything and get this
world back in our hands.

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