The Take - A Film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein

[AdamH]

I went to the Ottawa Premiere of this movie last night at the World Exchange. It was an excellent account of "Worker Recovered" factories in Argentina. These are places where the bosses have abandoned a seemingly unprofitable factory and workers have taken it over, guarded and defended it and tried to get it back in operation in a co-operative, worker-controlled structure where each person earns the same and decisions are made by consensus.

It's playing at the Bytown starting tonight and running until next Thursday. If you dig social justice and want to see how it's being executed elsewhere in the World (or you need some good news to help you recover from Tuesday) head out and see it. It willb e opening up in other theatres across Canada in the coming weeks.

Website: http://www.nfb.ca/thetake/

Description:

In the wake of Argentina’s spectacular economic collapse in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. 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.

Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy.

[TimmyB]

This looks like a very interesting film, I look forward to watching it.

[bokonon]

cool! thanks for the info!

[safety 4th]

our guitar player's brother did a lot of the audio post production on this movie - he told me it's amazing, as have many others who went to see it.