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Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction

The corporation’s dangerous habits are stressing out people and the planet. Catastrophe looms over us while corporations rake in record-breaking profits. Climate Change. Cancer rates out of control. Harm to workers. Addiction to oil. Growing inequality. A few of the symptoms of the pathological drive for profit. Is there a cure?

Join us as we develop our campaign to uncover and unleash alternatives to corporate misrule! The campaign is still in the development phase and we are currently collecting stories about the impact of the film. For instance, we were thrilled to hear that a Grade 8 class in Essex, Ontario used The Corporation as part of their school curriculum. (More about this including a short web video that we made with the Essex Grade 8s, Joel Bakan and Mark Achbar coming in our next issue). Tell us what you did, or something you've heard about as a result of the film. Help us re-wire the corporate world. (Of course, we gratefully accept money too.)

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COOLING THE CORPORATION

Corporate Accountability Project
A Pennsylvania-based center for the grassroots environmental justice movement, their Corporate Accountability Project provides educational organizing resources for fighting corporate power. Check out the section on “How to Overthrow Corporate Rule in 5 Not-so-easy Steps.”

Cinema Politica Network
The Cinema Politica Network is comprised of several free political film series at University and College campuses across Canada and Europe, and is organized, administered and curated by überculture collective. The Network is co-sponsored by the NFB's CitizenShift and various other groups at the local level. The project is dedicated to using the art of film to engage, inform, and inspire audiences to respond, process and act in order to effect positive change. For general information or to find out how to start your own local, visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

This month’s phrase is…

HARM REDUCTION

A tongue-in-cheek reference to the public health philosophy of mitigating risk-taking behaviour instead of outright prohibition. Condoms over abstinence. Needle exchanges, not police raids. Or in our case, straitjacket the psychopath rather than a complete lobotomy (however tempting).