The Take (La Toma) English subtitles (1/9)

(I've seen some versions of this on the web with out-of-sync-sound, hope this one stays in sync after uploading)

Description from: http://thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=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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In general, this documentary shows A) how neo-liberal politics can utterly destroy a country and B) how syndicalist and anarchist concepts can work today. (Which are exactly the concepts behind the resistance, although they seldom call themselves anarchist they certainly achieve what anarchists have been striving for for generations.)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Syndicalism
• Argentina
• The Take
• La Toma
• Naomi Klein
• Avi Lewis
• Documentary
• Anarchism
• Anarchosyndicalism
• liberalism
• Neo-liberalism

[justaoldslave]

Thanks Naomi, You rock. World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, all pure evil. They are evil, murderous, greedy, cancerous and enslaving! We are looking at the future of the U.S. when we see Argentina's failure.

[KARStarla]

Its like they are playing out of the same playbook country by country, building it and destroying it over and over again and playing dumb about it, its so sickening

[DragonFyrfly]

LOL at the woman drinking soda while breaking the window! XD

[teddyrocker]

@iglesiascesar You don´t need to kill anybody nor start any war to be fascist. You just need to have such ideology. Perón himself publicly expressed his admiration for Mussolini and even served as Argentine ambassador to the fascist Italy. Where did he took refuge when he was exiled? In Franco's Spain The way the CGT was organized followed the fascist unions model and even the discourse about the subject was similar to Italian fascism approach Not to speak about first Peronism rampant censorship

[iglesiascesar]

@teddyrocker peron not kill anyone and never was a war made

[lopez0326]

What's the name of the instrumental in the beginning

[SedanChair]

These banks are gonna fuckin clean us out

[lauralino82]

Great film! Loved it! Thank you Naomi and Avi, this is truly inspiring!

[FrogmortonHotchkiss]

7:00 Haha, kicking in the glass while drinking from a straw; pretty badass I must say.

[americanmutt100]

If you are an american watching this.This is are future,Unless we wake the fuck up.

[OurFadedGarden]

Oh my god! This is beautiful! We have it in us USA! Talk to neighbors and family first if you need to, but get together!

[chorademokracia]

WE want direct democracy in the state and at the workplace!