Fire the Director: The Making of 'The Take' Page #2

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We pay ourselves a fair salary.

We discuss how much money | we have, how much to save,

and how much to take.

For us as workers, | accounting is easy.

I don't know why it's so hard | for the bosses...

to pay salaries, buy materials, | and pay the bills.

For me it's easy - | you add and subtract.

How are you?

How's it going?

Are you inside already?

Get him to tell you | what happened here.

He's one of the pioneers | of this movement.

He's complaining a lot about | the attitude of some of the companeros.

Here's what bothers me:

You break your back, 30 or 40 | guys from the very beginning.

Then the rest come and say | "okay, I'm part of the cooperative."

"I want a job."

No no no.

If there's not enough work for all,

then the first 40 get priority.

Who decides that?

The assembly, the assembly.

If you can do it, | take a militant attitude,

beyond just being a worker.

That you are making history.

My name's Freddy Espinosa, | president of Forja San Martin,

an auto parts plant.

In the name of Forja, I'm grateful | for all the help you can give.

I think we are all in need | in this process.

I was quite naive - I kept | giving dates to my family.

I told them, "hold on a month | until December 14th."

December 14 arrived: nothing.

"Hold on until January 14th."

January 14th arrived: nothing.

I have a daughter who is seven | and she asks me every day,

"Papa, don't you work?"

And I don't know how | to explain it to her.

Sometimes it crosses my mind | to just give up everything.

Lalo tells me to hang in there, | we're almost there.

But it's hard.

There were days when | all we had was...

eggplant and fried potatoes.

I swear, on my children.

Unfortunately, I thought that | this process would be shorter.

I know most of you | went through this but...

I just wanted to tell you my story.

This movement of recovered | companies...

...has become something | serious.

We're almost 200 companies, | with thousands of jobs recovered.

It's a dignified struggle, | full of beautiful experiences.

But we have a big obstacle.

The same people who dragged us | into misery and unemployment,

those who took everything from us,

are now trying to come back.

And for us it's a major threat.

I know some people | are angry at me...

... because they feel I haven't | given them all I could.

And they are right.

But I was also angry.

God made me face pain.

I confronted adversity.

I was on my knees.

Now I'm on my feet.

So let's go!

Menem, the third presidency.

The historical one.

We will impose order.

We will saturate the streets | of the Republic.

We will enforce respect | for the State of Law.

Among other things, | the right to private property.

If Menem wins,

there's no way we'll get to run | this factory ourselves.

Menem is like the factory owner.

They represent the same interests.

Rich impresarios, | poor factories and workers.

Rich politicians, and | the people dying of hunger.

They're the same, | the same interests.

And they protect each other.

I spoke to him, | I visited him in prison.

We saw each other after he got out.

He told me:
'I will change | everything.

I'll give you back your factory.'

We have an occupied business | here - we're unemployed workers.

We're not going to take | propaganda...

...from a guy like Menem, | who swindled the whole country.

We're ripping these down so | people don't have to read this sh*t.

Come back Carlos, | come back now!

Come back Carlos, | come back now!

Come back Menem...

...to live in the new Argentina!

This says:
"Our dreams don't | fit on your ballots."

And that's what I feel.

That's what brought me to | the decision not to vote.

This is the porcelain workshop,

one of the many our organization | runs for the unemployed.

Not only to say "no" to eviction...

But also to go to the legislature | and say "approve our bill now."

It's been a year already.

Let's go on the offensive.

If we say, "please, don't evict | us," we're dead.

Forget polite government | lobbying.

It's all about direct action | and direct democracy.

From the moment we got together,

we were able to get | this factory in production.

And now it's a national | movement.

In our last national meeting,

it was clear that a new | politics is emerging.

And more than just feeling | part of it,

we feel like pioneers.

My baby's not going to | believe in a saviour.

I don't know what he'll believe later,

but what I'll try to teach him | is that he can do it on his own.

And that he doesn't have | to follow anyone.

No political boss, king, or saviour.

That son of a b*tch Menem, | I don't even want to see him.

Of course we don't want | to see him.

Kirchner.

Even less.

What are you doing with | that thing?

Kirchner.

There are lots like him.

They have "Kirchner" | stickers...

...because they're paid | 15 pesos a day,

to be politically active | and round up votes.

Today he has a Kirchner | sticker,

last week he was putting up | Menem posters.

I don't blame him: I blame | the person who hires him.

That's the jerk who's screwing him.

Ah... you noticed it.

What's this doing in my house?

One of the jerks I criticize, | who hires guys like him,

is my mom.

Hi boys, how are you?

Canadians.A bunch of Canadians.

Welcome guys, welcome.

I'm a Peronist.

We have a Peronist family.

The one who presides over | this house is Evita.

What I want, what I need,

I'm not going to get by voting.

No, I don't understand it.

I don't understand not voting.

Girls, go with Pachi.

Well, that's it Pachi, | you're in charge.

Go straight there.

Be alert on the bus: | don't get lost!

Making his entrance now...

the candidate for president | of all Argentines...

Nestor Kirchner.

The next president of Argentina.

The time has come to produce.

The time has come to work.

The time has come | for workers to be valued.

The time for auctioning off | our patrimony and our dignity is over.

Thank you very much.

Peron, Peron, how great you are!

My general, how precious too!

Peron, Peron, great leader!

You are first among workers.

Everything smells new!

The truth is that for all of us,

this factory is like Mecca.

How do you see the possibility | of us working with you?

I don't think there will be a problem.

We need forged pieces.

Well, this is a big help.

Freddy - could you guys | make those?

These? I can do these | with my eyes closed.

This is what we've achieved.

We've agreed that they'll | send us the raw material,

we'll forge it,

deliver it to them, and begin | to do business like this,

for 87% of the forged pieces | that the tractors have.

If the judge, Dr. Fernandez, | understood this,

she would understand that | we can self-manage the factory.

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.

"Madame Judge:
In your decision | lies the future of our children."

So what's happening here, | who are these people?

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