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Title: Screening of the film "The Take"
START DATE: 5/22/2009
START TIME: 6:30 PM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: Anaheim
Location Details:
Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim located at 511 S. Harbor Blvd in the City of Anaheim
Event Topic: labor
Event Type: screening
Contact Name: Duane J. Roberts
Contact Email: duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: (714) 758-1050
DESCRIPTION:
You are cordially invited to

attend the weekly meeting of the

============================

> POTLUCK FOR PROGRESSIVES <

============================

Friday, May 22, 2009

6:30 - 9:30 P.M.

(Film starts at 7:30 P.M)

Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim

511 South Harbor Blvd.

Anaheim, California

(Located on the Southwest corner

of Harbor Blvd. and Santa Ana Street)

(714) 758-1050

www.uuchurchoc.org

The "Potluck for Progressives" is a group organized

for the purpose of bringing together likeminded

people on a weekly basis to break bread and talk about

crucial issues affecting the community and the world.

At each meeting, people interested in peace, social

justice, labor, and the environment gather to exchange

ideas, talk about successes, plan actions, or just

engage in a friendly discussion with one another.

Bring a dish to share! Enjoy the bounty that others

bring as well! The potluck will start at 6:30 p.m. with

a speaker or film to follow at 7:30 p.m. Please join

us even if you can't bring any food!

On the Agenda:

Progressive Potluck

6:30 - 7:30 P.M.

Bring along your favorite dish of food,

chips, dips, or soft drinks, and spend

an hour mingling with progressive people

from all over Orange County.

Featured Film:

7:30 - 9:00 P.M.

We will be screening "The Take," a 2004

documentary directed, produced and written by

Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, shot in Argentina,

where a "prosperous middle-class economy" was

destroyed during a decade of IMF and Wprld

Bank policies, as enforced by right-wing

President Carlos Menem. Factories were

closed, their assets were liquidated, and

money fled the country, sometimes by the

truckload. After most of it was gone, Menem

closed the banks, causing massive riots. More

than half of all Argentineans were plunged

into poverty; unemployment soared to double

digits.

As a result, some workers began seizing

control of their closed factories to reopen

and operate them as cooperatives without

bosses or owners. Their argument: The

factories were subsidized in the first place

by corporate welfare, so if the owners didn't

want to operate them, the workers would. The

owners saw this differently, calling the

occupations theft. Committees of workers

monitored the factories to prevent owners

from selling off machinery and other assets

in defiance of the courts. And many of the

factories not only reopened, but were able to

produce comparable or superior goods at lower

prices.

"The Take" focuses mostly on the attempts of

workers to expropriate and operate a

shuttered auto parts factory in Buenos Aires.

The owner, who had abandoned it years

earlier, claimed that it was no longer

profitable to keep it running, leaving many

of the workers unemployed and owing them

millions in unpaid wages. The film not only

chronicles their day-to-day struggles, but

illuminates the fact they are part of a much

broader movement emerging in Argentina

where workers began seizing and running

factories for the benefit of themselves and

their communities.

Open Forum

9:00 - 9:30 P.M.

Open discussion, announcements,

and other news of interest.

The "Potluck for Progressives" is endorsed by the

Social Concerns Committee of the Unitarian Universalist

Church in Anaheim and is free and open to the

general public. Although a small donation might

be requested to help pay for facility costs, nobody

will be turned away due to a lack of funds.

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