Film Screening: The Shock Doctrine (2009), @ Solidarity Books

cork | anti-capitalism | event notice Saturday November 27, 2010 16:21 by Eric - WSM solidaritybooks at gmail dot com Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street, Opposite Fionn Barras, Cork City

Directed by award winning filmmakers, Michael Winterbottom and Matt Whitecross, The Shock Doctrine is a documentary based on Naomi Klein’s bestselling book of the same name.

The film is an investigation into the theory of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's 2007 book and the proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds upon economic crises, natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance and hegemony.

The result, is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. Political leaders have turned to brutality and repression in order to crush protest against their agendas of privatization, deregulation and tax cuts.

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Free Admission

Wednesday Dec 1st at 8pm