For more than 10 years, Grupo Alavío has been participating in working class struggles in Argentina and supporting them with video materials. Currently, Alavío is working with many of Argentina’s recuperated enterprises—filming documentaries and organizing screenings for workers to reflect on their practices of worker self-management. Grupo Alavío is looking for venues, community spaces, labor unions and universities that may be interested in hosting a video screening and presentation. The group will be in Boston, Philadelphia, NYC and Pittsburgh. Argentina’s social movements reflected in film: Worker self-management, constructing a new subjectivity Grupo Alavío Dates: November 3th—30th www.alavio.org mtrigona@msn.com alaviocine@yahoo.com.ar Greg Boozell gboozell@juno.com -- "Andy English" wrote: http://mondediplo.com/2005/10/13survey 'Occupy, resist, produce' Argentina: the coops' dividend Argentina's economic crisis in 2001 sent many businesses to the wall. But many who lost their jobs have occupied their workplaces and successfully resumed production without their former bosses. Now these new cooperatives are calling upon the state for reforms and policies to support them. By Cécile Raimbeau ON 20 March 2003 30 workers who had lost their jobs at the Bauen Hotel broke into a car park, forced a door and made their way into their former workplace. The five-star hotel, a 20-story building in the centre of Buenos Aires built for the 1978 World Cup, had been closed for 15 months. As well as striking a blow against private property rights, the occupation was an attack on a symbol of unbridled capitalism favoured by the dictatorship in power at the time the hotel went up...