I've just returned from a preview screening of a wonderfully inspiring new documentary, The Corporation, made by the same team that brought us Manufacturing Consent.

It tells the compelling story of the rise of the corporate entity around the world, how it has overtaken the role of governments in so many areas of our lives and how people and groups are fighting back. It's very NHJ!

Check out the website. The film is funny, insightful, chilling and strangely heartening. Featuring interviews with numerous well-known talking heads, including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman and a host of CEOs, whistleblowers and brokers, even the Economist, that bastion of capitalism, brought itself to say the following:

'People on both sides of the globalisation debate should pay attention. Unlike much of the soggy thinking peddled by too many anti-globalisers, The Corporation is a surprisingly rational and coherent attack on capitalism's most important institution.'

Read the full review here.

I loved this film because it showed, through numerous examples, that people are joining together, from the working class areas of Bolivia (fighting International Monetary Fund-imposed privitisation of the water supply) to the conditions of US multinational clothing workers in the Third World, and their message is clear - corporates can be taken on, and they can be beaten.

This film is not just about demonising the concept of the corporation, however. Rather, it asserts its message through persuasion and nuance. After all, isn't our message at NHJ all about empowering people with the tools and confidence to believe that change is possible? That governments can be held accountable?

Check the independent film distributor's website for release dates in your city. A season commences on September 2 at the Valhalla in Sydney, with other states to follow.