[Street] TONIGHT: Film screening - The Take - Occupy, Resist, Produce

Morrigan Phillips morrigan.phillips at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 12:44:23 EST 2011


*Monday December 19th* – 6:30pm :: [MOVIE] *The Take 6:30*

A film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien, The Take is a film about  thirty
unemployed auto-parts workers who walk into their idle factory, roll out
sleeping mats and refuse to leave.FREE!


Location: Community Church, 565 Boylston Street, Boston

   Synopsis

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into
their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.

All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - *The
Take* - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.

 In the wake of Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin
America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of
abandoned factories and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies
dormant until its former employees take action. They're part of a daring
new movement of workers who are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating
jobs in the ruins of the failed system.

But Freddy, the president of the new worker's co-operative, and Lalo, the
political powerhouse from the Movement of Recovered Companies, know that
their success is far from secure. Like every workplace occupation, they
have to run the gauntlet of courts, cops and politicians who can either
give their project legal protection or violently evict them from the
factory.

The story of the workers' struggle is set against the dramatic backdrop of
a crucial presidential election in Argentina, in which the architect of the
economic collapse, Carlos Menem, is the front-runner. His cronies, the
former owners, are circling: if he wins, they'll take back the companies
that the movement has worked so hard to revive.

Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy,
the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that
sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

With *The Take*, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken
journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller
*No Logo*, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century. But
what shines through in the film is the simple drama of workers' lives and
their struggle: the demand for dignity and the searing injustice of dignity
denied.
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