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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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LAID-OFF MAN FINALLY ACHIEVES PERFECT WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Just two weeks after being laid off from the tech firm where he worked as a coder, 34-year-old Sam Morrison told sources Monday that he had finally achieved the perfect work-life balance. Watch funny work-life balance video.
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RICO CHEVRON VS. THE CARTOONIST (AND EVERYONE)
If your petroleum operations created a legacy of pollution in a foreign land, you got sued there for $10 billion and lost, you'd accept your punishment like a good global citizen, right? Of course not! You'd go beyond the lawyer-dome and employ every dirty trick in the book to keep your $10 billion. An maybe you might ask your questionable friend Rico might have a "talk" with an upstart cartoonist who does a funny corporation video... Watch funny Chevron video.
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SUPPLY CHAINED
The tentacles of the knotty prison-labor problem attach at the head of the beast—the banking-oil-prison-education-food-military-industrial complex. But Stephen Colbert manages to find ways to make us laugh as he pokes at this new form of exporting jobs. Watch funny prison labor video.
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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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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. Video no longer available from host site (mondominishows.com)
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CORPORATION VIDEOS
SERIOUS
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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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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FOR CORPORATIONS?
Corporations got free speech rights with the "Citizens United" decision. The Supreme Court "Hobby Lobby" case may be the start of something new and exciting for corporate rights—freedom of religion! Animator Mark Fiore gives the corps the skewering they deserve.
1:56 [VIDEO] [02.APR.2014]
GENERAL MOTORMOUTH, OR NOT
GM is the latest automaker to be hauled before Congress to explain itself, in this case over a safety issue the company ignored for years. This
SNL clip
is a very funny send-up of the, um, inadequate testimony of GM CEO Mary Barra. (4:08) [VIDEO] [09.APR.2014]
UNITED STATES OF JOHN ROBERTS
With the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the McCutcheon case, the US Cashocracy is finally here! The cash of the billionaire class can now flood into political campaigns, allowing the wealthy to reclaim their historical role as kingmaker. Animator Mark Fiore has some
funny things
to say about this and Chief Justice John Roberts, who thinks cash corrupts only when it is slipped inside a legislator's vest pocket right on the Senate floor. 1:22 [VIDEO] [14.APR.2014]
MONSANTO — PICKING UP GOD’S SLACK
This funny Monsanto video makes mince meat out of the company's maniacal drive to dominate the global food system with their GMO products, no matter what the cost. From Happy Little Guillotine Studios.
(2:33) [VIDEO] [14.FEB.2014]
CNN PREGNANCY TEST
This funny video from Saturday Night Live pokes fun at the incessant news blather created by the concept of 24-hour coverage and the overemphasis on breaking news.
(2:13) [VIDEO] [26.APR.2014]
AMERICAN POLTROONEUM INSTITUTE
Keystone XL and tar sands oil are emissions-free wonders that will do everything good you ever thought possible—at least according to the American Petroleum Institute. This funny animation from Mark Fiore cracks the long-chain hydrocarbons the emanate from the mouths of API lobbyists and flacks.
(1:58) [VIDEO] [10.MAR.2014]
AUTOMAKERS DASH NATION’S HOPE FOR FLYING CARS
Americans are typically more interested in how cool a car is than how fuel efficient it is. The ultimate cool car is, of course, one that flies. Anchorman Brandon Armstrong presses automakers on the issue---when will we have our flying cars? Funny video from The Onion.
(2:14) [VIDEO] [05.MAY.2014]
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Resources for Corporations, Corporate Issues
Resources for Green Products
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CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE, LABOR ISSUES — 30.DEC.2014
Agroinnovations Podcast
The Farmers Union and the Future of Food —
Tom Giessel, honorary historian of the National Farmers Union, talks about the history of the Farmers Union, which was started in the early 20th century by cotton farmers in Texas. Giessel discusses the importance of community organizing and collaboration; the impact of technology on the Farmers Union; and visionary leaders throughout the Union's history. ~~ In Part II, Giessel explains the advantages of small operations unifying under a cooperative structure. He advises listeners to beware of threats to uniform cooperative law, and the further danger of wholesale privatization of cooperative assets. The discussion concludes with a look at the role of commodity groups in the political landscape and the dwindling role of cooperative extension in the face of persistent budget cuts.
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Original Show Pub Date: 18.Nov.2014 ~~ Original story titles: History of the Farmer’s Union, The Future of Food and Farming
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT, CORPORATIONS — 10.DEC.2014
CounterSpin
30 Years Since Bhopal, Justice May Finally Be Getting Started —
It was 30 years ago that a gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people and injured tens of thousands more. But if you think of Bhopal as a tragedy from the '80s, you're missing the point: It was a crime and it's far from over. Amitabh Pal of the Progressive talks about the ongoing disaster of Bhopal and the potential progress finally being made to clean up the area and properly compensate victims.
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10:14
Original Show Pub Date: 05.Dec.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE, CORPORATIONS, LABOR ISSUES — 27.OCT.2014
Making Contact
Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price —
Whistleblowers are heroes to many, but the government is increasingly treating them as traitors. In this show, we hear about the whistleblowers you won't see on the nightly news. They’re not named Manning or Snowden; they’re ordinary people who report wrongdoing at their place of employment, and pay the consequences.
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28:56
Original Show Pub Date: 15.Oct.2014
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