Special: The Take - Promo

Special: The Take - Promo

In suburban Buenos Aires, unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory and refuse to leave. All they want is to restart the silent machines. But this simple act - "The Take" - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.
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Category: Documentaries
Regions: South America

The Take is a political thriller that follows Argentina's radical new movement of occupied businesses: groups of workers who are claiming the country's bankrupt workplaces and running them without bosses.

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 restart the silent machines. But this simple act - The Take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head.

 

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Visit The Take's official website
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Watch writer Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis on Democracy Now!