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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject: Argentine Gambles |
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WELCOME!
Argentine Gambles:
The Take
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
By Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
DVD
(Available only in Canada Oct. 10/05)
| Quote: | Zanon Ceramics worker: Freddy, could you guys make these?
Freddy Espinosa, a Forja San Martin Ltd. Cooperativa worker: These? I can do these with my eyes closed.
Another worker: hTis is what we've achieved. We've agreed that that they'll send us the raw material, we'll forge it, deliver it back to them and begin to do business like this, for 87 per cent of the forged pieces that the tractors have. If the judge, Dr. Fernandez (who told occupying workers to vacate the abandoned factory), understood this, she would understand that we can self-manage the factory.
Freddy: I hope that one day if things turn around and we start producing, I'll be the first to help other cooperatives. You can bet on that. |
Synopsis from The Take Text Site:
| Quote: | In the wake of Argentina’s spectacular economic collapse in 2001, Latin America’s most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories and mass unemployment. 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.
Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy.. |
Read the review Feb. 17/05 by film critic Roger Ebert:
| Quote: | | If these films are as correct as they are persuasive, international monetary policy is essentially a scheme to bankrupt smaller nations and cast their populations into poverty, while multinational corporations loot their assets and whisk the money away to safe havens and the pockets of rich corporations and their friends... |
Yes, this film is long, poorly edited and there is no explanation of Argentina's unparallelled expropriation bills, the key to a number of successful takeovers of recuperated factories by former workers. Argentinian law gives workers expropriation rights over a bankrupt company usually for a maximum of two years if they can prove assets have been removed and that the new company serves a social role. See s. 17 of Argentina's Constitution as well as Taking care of business posted at the Guardian Unlimited June 3/05 and Workers in the struggle at Indymedia Argentina posted Sept. 14/04.
Nevertheless, the spirit of the thing is in keeping with the noble traditions of documentary film-making and - !hay caramba! - we liked it.
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Exodus to the Virtual World
How Online Fun Is Changing Reality
Hardcover
By Edward Castronova
| Quote: | Which Came First, the Society or the Game It Plays?
Just because the virtual exodus creates these pressures doesn't mecessarily mean tat the real and the virtual will become more similar. A country without mountains cannot become a country with them. Can the virtual world become more like the real world? Can the real world become more like the virtual?
To reflect on these questions, consider the following:
Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ingnominy, imprisonment... I owe that almost monstrous variety to an institution - the Lottery - which is unknown in other nations, or at work in them imperfectly or secretly. I have not delved into this institution's history. I know that sages cannot agree. About its mighty purposes I know as much as a man untutored in astrology might know about the moon. Mine is a dizzying country in which the Lottery is a major element of reality... My father would tell how once, long ago - centuries? years? - the lottery in Babylon was a game played by commoners.
-- Jorge Juis Borges, The Lottery in Babylon (1962)
(From the chapter entitled, Migration, p. 75) |
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From Loaded Dice:
The New Yorker
Magazine Subscription
July 6 & 13/09
| Quote: | A Dream
In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that
has neither door nor window. In the only room (with a dirt floor
and shaped like a circle) there is a wooden table and a bench. In that
circular cell, a man who looks like me is writing in letters I cannot
understand a long poem about a man who in another circular cell is
writing a poem about a man who in another circular cell...The process
never ends and no one will be able to read what the prioners write.
-- Jorge Luis Borges
(Translated from the Spanish by Jill Levine)
(-- p. 82) |
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