Tonight I saw The Take, which was excellent and inspiring. I totally cried like an idiot when they got their expropriation ruling.
The workers were fired when the factory closed down, and the banks fled with the people's money. Basically capitalism was allowed to run its course in the truest sense, no checks or balances whatsoever, corporate welfare to numerous international and national corporations. The wholesale of a nation (sound familiar?).
The workers locked themselves in the factory and went through these legal battles just to run the machines. Just to work. There are, I think, 200 worker-run occupied factories (from now on I'm calling them co-ops) in Argentina right now. They support their community (donating goods to schools and hospitals) and their community supports them (by coming out and protesting when another co-op's (the Brukman suit factory) workers are evicted. AND the co-ops support each other.
I also cried (I'm sort of glad I was alone) when they were talking about how this worker with cancer was being supported by her fellow employees, comparing it to the docked wages she would had received under corporate management.
Like, fuck. People are doing it. They're changing whole political systems from the bottom up. I think that's something that has to come from the rubble of capitalism though. I mean... it was absolute desperation that drove them. But wow. I'm so in awe of gigantic movements like that.
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
The workers were fired when the factory closed down, and the banks fled with the people's money. Basically capitalism was allowed to run its course in the truest sense, no checks or balances whatsoever, corporate welfare to numerous international and national corporations. The wholesale of a nation (sound familiar?).
The workers locked themselves in the factory and went through these legal battles just to run the machines. Just to work. There are, I think, 200 worker-run occupied factories (from now on I'm calling them co-ops) in Argentina right now. They support their community (donating goods to schools and hospitals) and their community supports them (by coming out and protesting when another co-op's (the Brukman suit factory) workers are evicted. AND the co-ops support each other.
I also cried (I'm sort of glad I was alone) when they were talking about how this worker with cancer was being supported by her fellow employees, comparing it to the docked wages she would had received under corporate management.
Like, fuck. People are doing it. They're changing whole political systems from the bottom up. I think that's something that has to come from the rubble of capitalism though. I mean... it was absolute desperation that drove them. But wow. I'm so in awe of gigantic movements like that.
Occupy. Resist. Produce.
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schism13:
I didn't know cause you never wrote back to me!!!!
schism13:
I thought it was because of what I wrote to you....