{"id":23073,"date":"2011-08-18T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=23073"},"modified":"2011-08-23T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T16:35:11","slug":"kpfk-fund-drive-day-3-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/08\/18\/kpfk-fund-drive-day-3-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism IS the Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081811\/2011_08_18_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/www.capitalismisthecrisis.net\/images\/274_capitalism_is_the_crisis_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>New data released by the U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday revealed that the Producer Price Index (PPI) rose in July by more than expected. The PPI is an indicator of wholesale inflation, and currently it is at its highest peak in the last six months, effectively lowering real wages, and consequently consumerism \u2013 this has increased worries among economists about the possibility of a double-dip recession. USA Today polled thirty nine economists, who put the chances of another downturn at 30% &#8211; twice as high as when they were polled three months earlier. But, corporate profits are robust \u2013 up 22% since 2007, even while the personal finances of most Americans are fragile. The current official unemployment rate of 9.1% shows little sign of improvement; 13.9 million Americans continue to look for work. And those that are working, are working much harder. Mother Jones Magazine reports Americans now put in an average of 122 more work hours per year than Brits, and 378 hours (nearly 10 weeks!) more than Germans. A new documentary called \u201cCapitalism Is The Crisis\u201d looks at the hypocrisy of  the capitalist economy which, time and again, seems to be enriching corporations at the expense of the working and middle class. Starting with the 2008 financial crisis, the filmmakers investigate how capitalist financiers lost trillions of dollars in public money and then imposed measures of austerity to alleviate the situation they had in fact created.  By decimating public services and undermining labor rights the capitalists who created the crisis now demand austerity. Capitalism Is The Crisis provides an in depth look at the nature of the current economic crisis and the protests against austerity measures, and recommends \u201ca revolutionary path for the future.\u201d The film features Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Naomi Klein and others. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside Job<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a1\/InsideJob2010Poster.jpg\/220px-InsideJob2010Poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Earlier this year, Inside Job, the powerful documentary by Charles Ferguson, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, underscoring the public&#8217;s growing frustration with corporate crime and culpability in the recession. Before Inside Job, Charles Ferguson was best known for his 2005 documentary, No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2007. No End In Sight won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, the Best Documentary prizes of the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics circles, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. In Inside Job, Ferguson exposes the truth behind the economic crash of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Inside Job is narrated by Academy Award winning actor Matt Damon and was shot on location in the US, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You Gifts: <\/p>\n<p>Capitalism is the Crisis \u2013 DVD &#8211; $75<br \/>\nInside Job \u2013 DVD &#8211; $100<br \/>\nDouble DVD pack featuring both of the above &#8211; $150<\/p>\n<p>Call 818-985-KPFK (5735) to make a pledge, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpfk.org\">www.kpfk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Dollars and Sense for donating subscriptions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data released by the U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday revealed that the Producer Price Index (PPI) rose in July by more than expected. The PPI is an indicator of wholesale inflation, and currently it is at its highest peak in the last six months, effectively lowering real wages, and consequently consumerism \u2013 this has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}