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Date: April 14, 2007 3:17:32 PM PDT
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Subject: FILM~SYNOPSIS of "THE TAKE" (poitical documentary)
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http://www.thetake.org/synopsis.php
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.
© 2005, Klein Lewis Productions. All Rights Reserved.
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