{"id":2631,"date":"2011-08-15T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2011-08-15T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:16:09","slug":"august-movie-night-to-feature-the-shock-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/15\/august-movie-night-to-feature-the-shock-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Night to feature “The Shock Doctrine”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progressive Network Movie Night
\nAug. 23, 7pm<\/strong>
\nConundrum Music Hall, 626 Meeting St. West Columbia
\nFree and open to the public<\/p>\n

Directed by award-winning filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross (co-directors of THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO), THE SHOCK DOCTRINE<\/a> is a feature (94 min.) documentary based on Naomi Klein’s bestselling book of the same name. THE SHOCK DOCTRINE is a gripping and incisive deconstruction of how free market policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. THE SHOCK DOCTRINE radically challenges the myth that the global free market triumphed on the wings of democracy.<\/p>\n

Both the film and the book argue that both big business and governments overexploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars with the very aim of pushing through radical free market policies. Naomi Klein calls this “disaster capitalism.” The film traces the doctrine\u2019s beginnings in the radical theories of Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, and its subsequent implementation over the past 40 years in countries as disparate as Augusto Pinochet\u2019s Chile, Boris Yeltsin\u2019s Russia, Margaret Thatcher\u2019s Great Britain, and most recently through the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n