THE CORPORATION

The film The Corporation is a documental that explains the reality, cases, and the meaning of the corporation of today by interviewing, giving true examples and speaking with all kinds of important people wich give their opinions and critics, that inmost of the cases are negative.
To start, a corporation is "A company recognized by law as a single body with its own powers and liabilities, separate from those of the individual members. Corporations perform many of the functions of private business, governments, educational bodies, and the professions."(1)
Nowdays, corporations are also called persons: Juridic Persons, because they also have rights and goverment protect them even more than natural persons. This has become a major problem for societies because the only thing that they persue are profits and protection for their stakeholders, without taking in account all the damages that they cause to their employees or society.
Nothing is enough for them, they dont have moral nor ethics for business, the only and most important objective is to increase pofits and grow the company, they do wathever it takes to achieve this objective. For example companies that work with quimics dont worry about the damage that they can generate to people and to the environment (that in lots of cases is very big), even knowing that they might have to pay big fines they take the risk only to win more money. Another example of their lack of responsability with society is when big companies translate their production to emerging countries and explote the poor employees that only work for surviving day to day. The work hours are the double and the salaries are misserable.
I think its a very interesting film and I liked it a lot because it shows the pure reality with valid and true examples. The only interest of organizations is to produce money takes what it takes.

Are we going to permit these organizatons to destroy us?

Absolutely no, I think that governments, and the same corporation, are begining to be more conscius of the damage that they are causing to society and to our planet. For example nowdays its obligatory for big companies and countries that contaminte to buy or to produce "bonos Kyoto" to reduce contamination and preserve our natural environment. The Kyoto Protocol is intended to achieve "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system"(2). "The Kyoto Protocol establishes legally binding commitments for the reduction of four greenhouse gases"(3) Governments are also demanding and fining (with huge fines) the companies that dont fulfill all the environmental requirements.
An important advance in society is that today a big percentage a peolple prefer green products that dont contaminate, that are healthyer, that are easy to recycle, that are produced without quimics, etc. People prefer to pay a bit more and this is a good sign of their willing to help with the cause. There also exist organizations that are always searching to protect human rights and that fight and protest when the corporations violate them.

References:

(1) http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/corporation.html
(2) The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Retrieved on 15 November 2005.
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol