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DESCRIPTION:THE TAKE:  Occupy, Resist, Produce\n\nIn suburban Buenos Aires, 30 
 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.\n\nWheelchair 
 accessible at our  411  28th  Street  entrance\n\nBefore and after the 
 film, everyone's invited to indulge in our Humanist, Vegetarian, Organic 
 Refreshments\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/11/18544150.php
SUMMARY:The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street, uptown Oakland\nbetween Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/11/18544150.php
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