Austin DUers "The Take" documentary at Alamo Drafthouse 3/31

[sonias]

I just wanted to pass along a little recommendation for a film playing at The Alamo Drafthouse (downtown) tomorrow night. It's only playing one more time, tomorrow.

I got the chance to see it tonight and it was wonderful. Here's the movie web site
http://www.nfb.ca/thetake/
(snip)
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.
(/snip)

And a pretty good review here.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0218-31.htm
As one documentary after another attacks the International Monetary Fund and its pillaging of the Third World, I wish I knew the first thing about global economics. 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. But that cannot be, can it? Surely the IMF's disastrous record is the result of bad luck, not legalized theft?

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You don't want to miss this one.

Sonia

[Bruce McAuley]

1. An EXCELLENT documentary that was on the CBC last week...

The wife and I both really enjoyed this documentary very much. It will be broadcast on the CBC again April 3rd, if you get CBC that is.
"Occupy, Resist, Produce", the motto of the Revolution.
:thumbsup:

Bruce