<b>Monday December 19th</b> – 6:30pm :: [MOVIE] <font><span style="line-height:115%"><b>The Take 6:30</b></span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="line-height:115%">
A film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klien, The Take is a film about<span> </span>thirty unemployed auto-parts workers who walk
into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.</span></font>FREE!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>Location: Community Church, 565 Boylston Street, Boston<br><br><table style="border:medium none;width:717px;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<h2>Synopsis</h2>
<p>In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk
into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave.</p>
<p>All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - <strong>The Take</strong> - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>With <strong>The Take</strong>, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's
most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the
international bestseller <strong>No Logo</strong>, 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.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br>