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SERIOUS AND FUNNY ...
Videos on Corporations, Globalization, Global Trade
This list of videos about corporations has serious and funny videos and animations about corporate personhood, corporate free speech, Citizen United decision, corporate political influence, global trade agreements, globalization, sweat shops, labor relations, and more.
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CORPORATION VIDEOS
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iWHINE
This funny video takes specific aim at Apple's marketing hype, profit mongering, and other unappealing characteristics. But the satire applies to most of the planet's biggest corporations. Watch funny corporate profits video.
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CORPORATELAND AND THE CASHOCRACY
In one funny video, Mark Fiore anima-shuns the dominant role of money in the American system of governance. In another, he offers an animated musical tribute to the dreams of corporations, all coming true as they transform into real live humans... Watch funny corporate personhood video.
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CLAP ON, CLAP OFF!
What gift do all corporate executives want most this year? The Clapper! Only this is the "Free-Market Clapper," and clapping results in huge piles of risk-free cash, whether they face boom or bust. For these big wigs, it's The Best Of Times and ...um... More Best of Times. "Please, sir, may I have some more?" Funny stuff from Mark Fiore. Go there
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THE STORY OF CORPORATIONS — CITIZENS UNITED VS. FEC
Another brilliant episode in The Story of Stuff series. Using clever graphics, Annie Leonard explains how corporations acquired their current extraordinary powers and rights, and why me must make correcting this our #1 priority if we want to eventually address the other ills of society. Watch funny corporate personhood video.
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ARE POLITICIANS FAILING OUR LOBBYISTS?
An excellent video satire from The Onion that turns the problem of lobbyists' influence on Congress on its head. Watch funny lobbyists video.
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VOLUNTARY REGULATION
Since the voluntary approach has worked so well for consumer and worker safety, getting the world's most powerful corporations to voluntarily do something about global climate change sounds easy, right? ... . Or so satirizes Mark Fiore in this episode of Flamey McGassy.
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GREEN MAGIC CARPET
Ray Anderson, who turned his carpet-manufacturing business green (and profitable!) thinks the old paradigm of capitalism as "a way to efficiently convert natural resources into pollution" is both silly and dangerous. Watch green business video.
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PHILLIP MORRIS CHANGES TO ALTRIA — A film noire style animation exposing the hidden goals of Phillip Morris' conversion into a multifaceted consumer products conglomerate. From Free Range Graphics via YouTube.
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Videos on Financial System, Empire, Elites
Videos on Media & Communications Issues
Videos on All Topics
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Resources for Corporations, Corporate Issues
Resources for Green Products
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ExtraEnvironmentalist
Corporations and Education — 30 Apr 2012 — Joel Bakan, creator of the film The Corporation, discusses the preponderant influence of corporations on our governments and our lives, using the education and health care systems as case studies. He also explains why neoliberal capitalism is appealing to most people even though it is based on a limited understanding of human potential. ~~ Laurette Lynn gives her reasons for thinking the best option for educating our children is for parents to take their kids out of the school system entirely and learn critical thinking skills.
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KOPN Food Sleuth
Food and Beverage Marketing Permeating Schools — 12 Apr 2012 — Faith Boninger discusses the astonishing depth of penetration of corporate marketing in schools, the increasingly common quid pro quo agreements between school systems and corporations, and the corporate "contests" that individual schools (and their students) often engage in voluntarily in an effort to fundraise.
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Uprising
How the WTO Undermines Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Protections — 09 Apr 2012 — The World Trade Organization regularly trumps national laws designed to protect consumer safety, worker rights, and clean air and water, essentially serving as a corporate backdoor for deregulation. Any national law or regulation that the WTO identifies as a "technical barrier to trade" is on the chopping block. Lori Wallach of Public Citizen outlines the problem and recounts some of the recent transgressions.
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WAL-MART NATION
A 4-minute rap song with clever, searing lyrics that remind us of the "high cost of low prices" and the mass conversion of the populace into mere Wal-Martifacts. From M.C. Lars via YouTube.
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BIG BOX MART
A funny poke at "big-box stores"---especially the big "W"... Watch funny walmart video.
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BUY, BUY AMERICAN PIE
A funny parody song by the Capitol Steps about problems with Chinese products that are imported to the United States. Watch funny chinese products video.
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ENRON - FACING THE MUSIC
Using VH1's "Behind The Music" format, this excellent animation that reviews the debacle of Enron. It was one of the most audacious corporate frauds of all time, with the con job helped along by venal politicians and regulators. From Mondo Mini-Shows.
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