The Take (La Toma) English subtitles (1/9)
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Uploaded on Feb 3, 2009
(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_nam...
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.)
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Top Comments
chorademokracia 1 year ago
WE want direct democracy in the state and at the workplace!
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wayne sawyer 1 year ago
If you are an american watching this.This is are future,Unless we wake the fuck up.
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Loud2013 1 month ago
"our" future.. dont blame foreigners when we dont know our own language
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TheVandalXD 1 month ago
Idiot. Share the profit!
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Yvonne Hummel 1 month ago
What a great movie! Thanks for filming this...
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pirufihho 2 months ago
yeah, support from argentina
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rickbuerkel 3 months ago
Remember that America is a continent, not a country. Argentina is part of South America .... And yes, this is our future in the US
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Elin48 10 months ago
There are many ownerships where it is a cooperative, and this would be my first choice...but we've got to start somewhere, and right now our battle is with the sociopaths who have gravitated into the realms of power, corruption and privatization. I'd like to bring in those to the fold who are of the decent sort who own their own businesses (my father owned his architectural firm, and he brought in his long standing employees as his partners), and go from there.
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Jonathan Ventures 10 months ago
Somebody please tell me the URL of the 9th video of this. I'm going crazy looking for it. Maybe it's my stupid phone...
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eelexa 11 months ago
Detroit is a good taste of it.
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androydnyc 1 year ago
this is our future in the US WHEN we wake up-- if you think that the workers' coop is the villain then you are either far wealthier than your spelling, grammar and vocabulary would lead the casual reader to believe-- or you watch Faux Noise.
i'm guessing the latter.
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macmccune21 1 year ago
our*
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