CNA/NNOC Hosts Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ for AFL-CIO Convention

by Seth Michaels, Sep 11, 2009

Filmmaker Michael Moore, seen here with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, CNA/NNOC Co-President Deborah Burger (left) and CNA/NNOC nurses, will premiere his newest film in Pittsburgh Monday.

Pittsburgh isn’t just hosting the AFL-CIO Convention next week: The city also will host a special showing of Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Monday night.

Moore, who most recently directed “Sicko,” now turns his lens on the U.S. financial and economic crisis. On Monday, Sept. 14, following the second day of the AFL-CIO Convention, AFL-CIO delegates and guests will get a chance to see the film.

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), says that the film is:

the best major labor film in years…an unabashed advocacy of working people and critique of an unjust system and the financial misdeeds that have led to the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Mark Weisbrot from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) says “Capitalism—a Love Story,” “doesn’t just go after the seamy side of the American economy.”

Moore has bigger targets in his sights: He is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values and political economy of American capitalism are fit for human beings. Although this will not seem so radical in Europe, where most countries have had governments in the post-World War II era that at least called themselves socialist, or in most of the developing world, where socialist ideas have plenty of popular appeal, it’s pretty much unprecedented for anything that can reach a mass audience in the United States.

CNA/NNOC partnered with Moore during the release of his last movie, “Sicko,” which looked at the failures of the U.S. health care system. CNA/NNOC members toured the country advocating for health care reform that covers everyone.

“Capitalism: A Love Story” will open nationwide on Oct. 2.

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