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

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.)

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

[toddholladay]

I don't see this as socialist at all...socialism is top down.. this is bottom up capitalism..This doesn't really have a name you could pin to it..I love it ...A well done documentary !...The people in control of their own future, sounds like liberty to me..sounds like freedom!

[jsgdk]

This could be a good punishment method for corporations in USA.

You cant really imprison a corporation or execute it for serious crimes..

and theyre supposed to be like people? lol

[riethc]

I was wondering where people got the idea of cooperatives from at Occupy Wall Street. Now I know.

[colombo14]

thank you for this documentary :)

[pwpg0516]

I love happy endings! :)



[grakeico]

@iusehax "Santa Maria Del Buen Ayre" by Gotan Project.

[americanmutt100]

Thank you for this post.It is inlightning to see some answers to some of the hard problems we are all facing.

[MikeKay1978]

And lastly why did Norway do good? well Oil helped but as any other country oil have not increased the wealth of the individual actually the living standard is lower than that of sweden, with no oil. What did make Norway, holland and so on relatively succesful is the relatively low corruption. Most african countries sell their resource for pennies on the dollar and only a few persons benefit from findings, thats corruption. Norway had a different approach. and oh yes Norway has a huge goverment

[MikeKay1978]

And the interesting thing is that capitalist countries turn socialistic(e.g USA) and socialistic countries turn capitalistic(e.g China) very strange its like the system is changed by someone so that someone can gain benefits from that particular system, it like changing the game rules while playing, that if something that is most likely caused by corruption.