Sound Of Sirens

Powerful extremes. Creativity, activism, visions, grassroots movements, you name it…. all happening in the States. Necessity provoked by the current political and economic system. You would think: welcome to any crisis this system will get into, gives opportunity for radical new thinking to emerge. But not only.

In her book THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Children of Men”, and Naomi Klein, present a short film from Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”