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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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The Take
Category: Documentaries
Regions: South America

Airdates

Timezone: P M C E 
Friday, May 24th 
08:30 pm 
Tuesday, May 28th 
06:00 am 
Wednesday, May 29th 
11:30 pm 

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.

 

LEARN MORE:
Visit The Take's official website
Timeline of Argentine history

 

Watch writer Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis on Democracy Now!

 

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