Part 3: The Reckoning

From the series "The Corporation"

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"The Reckoning," documents the corporation's indifference to democracy, over the last century, in many areas of the world. Detailed are the high stakes struggles facing grass roots movements as they battle with this dominant force of our time.

From American corporations such as IBM, General Motors, Ford and Coke working with and profiting from Nazi Germany to present day Bechtel attempting to privatize Bolivia's water system, the patterns are revealed.  What is inspiring is the victories of small, persistent voices growing to a unified roar, powerful enough to stop huge corporate machines as they attempt to take away power and choices from not only individuals and communities but in fact, from governments.

Presented are some excellent examples of positive activism: the charter revocation movement took on oil giant Unocal; sweatshop activists moved labor standards; seed activists beat corporate patents; in Pennsylvania, two cities decreed that corporations can no longer carry on as a person and Bolivians defeated Bechtel corporation’s attempt to privatize their water system.