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DESCRIPTION:\n\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments & social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nTHE SHOCK DOCTRINE\nby Michael Winterbottom and Mat 
 Whitecross\n\nThis shocking film is the Directors’ interpretation of 
 Naomi Klein‘s ground-breaking book, The Shock Doctrine.  The film focuses 
 on Milton Friedman‘s philosophy of capitalism and shows how insidious it 
 is.  With the strategies of war, economic upheaval, and the overthrow of 
 foreign governments, the U.S. molds the rest of the world in its image.  
 And the rest of the world is beginning to look a lot like the predatory 
 underhanded nations that the U.S. and Britain have become.  The film argues 
 that big corporations in search of new markets benefit when foreign 
 governments import the neoliberal economic system, often as a result of 
 pressure from the U.S., — and this often has catastrophic consequences 
 for ordinary people.  It contends that political leaders have turned to 
 brutality and repression to crush protests against their ideologically 
 inspired programmes of privatization, deregulation, and tax cuts.  This 
 film is based on Naomi Klein’s breakthrough historical research and four 
 years of her on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones.  It vividly shows 
 how disaster capitalism — the rapid-fire corporate re-engineering of 
 societies still reeling from shock — did not begin with September 11, 
 2001.  The film traces the origins of disaster capitalism back fifty years 
 to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman.  He and his Chicago 
 school of economics produced many of the leading neo-conservative and 
 neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today, 
 where lagging behind the times and being out of sync with ordinary people 
 is de rigueur.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/02/18706482.php
SUMMARY:The Shock Doctrine
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/02/18706482.php
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