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Hot Docs: Documentaries and Discussion 2839
10:00 – 12:00 noon
January 17 – March 27 6 Tuesdays
Meet every other Tuesday morning to view and discuss a recently released documentary film.
Roger and Me From Michael Moore. It is 1989. GM is downsizing. Flint Michigan is being ravaged. 30,000 people lose
their jobs. Michael Moore seeks out GM President Roger Smith to ask questions. How does this compare to 2012?
Let’s Make Money tracks the hypothetical savings of a typical depositor as they move around the global system, often causing
exploitation as various financial agents try to produce high returns.
Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement
with the wars led by the United States to date. How does this relate to the corporate run economy?
The Inside Job analyses the global financial crisis of 2008, which, at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to
lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
The Corporation is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person, and evaluating
its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person.
Home is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on
Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.
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