I love the CBC. I subscribe to their excellent documentary mailing list and if you live in Canada, you owe it to yourself to watch or tape Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis’s excellent film The Take, which is airing on Thursday March 24 at 8:00pm.
I saw the film last year at Hot Docs, and called it “a fascinating look at what happens when the unemployed decide to take matters into their own hands“.
Here’s the official film site.
I see your “The Take” on TV, and raise you one “The Take” free screening at UofT the night before, with panel including Avi Lewis. I just got this in my e-mail today, and it doesn’t seem that they’re only allowing UofT affiliates, it seems to be open to anyone:
“The Take,” a critically acclaimed documentary film by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, will be shown in Innis Town Hall on Wednesday 23 March at 7:00 pm, sponsored by Innis College, Toronto and York Region Labour Council, and the following UofT unions: Steelworkers Local 1998, CUPE Local 3902, CUPE Local 3261, and UNITE/HERE.
The film will be followed by a panel and a reception with light refreshments. Cost: FREE.
Panel: Avi Lewis, executive producer; Jorge Garcia-Ortega (Steelworkers National Office); Carolyn Egan (President, Steelworkers Toronto Area Council); Dina Khorasanne, graduate student in political science and activist from Argentina; and Professor Rick Halpern, Department of History, UofT.
“The Take” reflects how neo-liberal globalization destroyed the once prosperous Argentinean economy, and how an alternative, worker-controlled vision of publicly- owned, cooperative factories is inspiring and reinvigorating the country’s economy.