[lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 03:02:39 PDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Sheldon <humanist.observer at gmail.com> wrote:


> What are peoples take on the Klien and Lewis film "The Take"?   And
> does anybody hear anything more on the Argentine factory reclamation
> movement or whatever it is or was called?

Well I haven't but right after your message I got this on another list:


> Haymarket Books presents
>
> FIRE THE BOSS:
> The Worker Control Solution from Buenos Aires to Chicago
>
> with the authors and editors of
>
> Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories: lavaca
> collective, foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (Haymarket Books)
>
> 7 pm
> May 15, 2009
> The Great Hall at Cooper Union
> 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
> New York City, New York
> free (seating is first come, first served)
>
> with (list information):
>
> Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, writer of The
> Take
>
> Avi Lewis, director of The Take and host, Al Jazeera English "Fault
> Lines"
>
> Claudia Acuña and Sergio Ciancaglini of lavaca collective in Argentina
>
> Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de Republic Windows (Chicago, Illinois)
>
> Leah Fried, United Electrical workers union
>
> Brendan Martin, The Working World/La Base
>
> Including a discussion, with clips of The Take by Naomi Klein and
> Avi Lewis and selections from a documentary about The Republic
> Workers' struggle
>
> Translation provided for Spanish speakers
>
> Followed by a book signing
>
> Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union, The Indypendent, UE, Nation
> Institute, and Nation Magazine
>
> To find out more about the event, please visit
> http://www.haymarketbooks.org/
>
> directions:
>
> Cooper Union Great Hall. 7 East 7th Street New York City, New York
> 10003
> between Third Avenue and Cooper Square (just south of Fourth Avenue)
>
> 6 train to Astor Place
> R, W to 8th Street - NYU
>



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