From our friends at Iowa Farmers Union:

If you have not yet had the opportunity to see the film THE CORPORATION,
tonight is a good evening to come out. It begins at 7pm at the Fleur Cinema
on Fleur Drive in Des Moines.

This film, which won awards at the Sundance Festival, is a documentary that
keeps your interest with riveting stories and factoids about the rise of The
Corporation in the US and the world, and some very scary threats to public
welfare and democracy which corporations are perpetrating on an unsuspecting
and ill-informed American public and electorate. Following the film tonight
there will be a facilitated discussion for about half an hour or 45 minutes.

The film was brought to Des Moines by the Fleur at the request of the Iowa
Motion Picture Association and Women's International League for Peace &
Freedom (WILPF) in Des Moines. Because of a snafu with the Fleur's very new
manager, we did not get enough lead time to publicize this film adequately
so they've held it over for an extra week. If you could possibly make it out
for tonight's showing, that would be great. Stay for the discussion if you
can.

The abuses the film relates correspond locally to the upcoming court case in
Des Moines wherein Smithfield Ham (which recently acquired Murphy meat
packing co, for vertical integration of an entire industry) is suing the
State of Iowa because Iowa has tried to limit the corporation from total
vertical integration in Iowa. The company asserts that Iowa is trying to
take away their constitutional right to operate their company as they see
fit, with all the rights due to a corporate 'person'. But that's just one
instance of the kind of over-reaching corporate policies that affect all of
our lives by asserting bottom line profits over public welfare on a scale
that is ethically troubling and which threatens to paralyze democracy.

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