Screening: The Corporation

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The Belmont Library is pleased to show the much-lauded documentary film The Corporation which explores the results of the Supreme Court ruling that states a corporation must be considered a person rather than an entity, granting them unprecedented rights. Filmmakers Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and author Joel Bakan, delve into that legal standard, essentially asking: if corporations were people what kind of people would they be?

A book was written concurrent with the filming of the documentary by Joel Bakan. Bakan will appear at the library later in the month to read from his latest book, Childhood Under Siege.