Fire the Director: The Making of 'The Take' Page #4

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Yeah, the people are all angry.

Companeros! Stay calm,

because they're in there | negotiating with the judge.

Please, try not to get worked up...

... until we see what comes | of that meeting.

Our national constitution gives | unrestricted protection...

...to property rights.

Judge Jorge Rimondi | Ordered Brukman eviction

And we judges are here | to ensure that people comply...

with that constitution | and those laws.

Yes, yes, we're going to return.

We have no doubt.

And I invite you to come inside | to continue filming once we do.

Police Chief! | We want to talk to you.

We're asking the police to leave.

We're not going to leave because | there's a judicial order.

We're staying here until | the judge tells us to go.

Are you thinking | about shedding blood?

No! You are!

The City Government is contacting | the Ministry of Labour.

So you're going to have | to wait for the results of that.

No, Ma'am, you cannot | come in. No.

I'm telling you, | you're not getting in.

Companeros! Help us and give us | your support. Please!

We're staying here | and keeping watch.

And when the moment seems right...

...we're going to try to get in | companeros!

OK guys, once again | we have to go to La Plata

to put some pressure on | the politicians to pass our law.

I know you're tired, and some | think it's pointless

to go back to the legislature.

But we have to go and pressure.

It's the only way | to get our expropriation.

Are we all in agreement? | Yes.

We'll vote on the project: | all in favour?

Passed unanimously.

Approved. The bill will be sent | to the chamber of deputies.

I'd like to thank everyone | for your support.

And Lalo...

I trusted him when he came | to my house and said,

that this was possible.

And it's true, it is possible.

It happened.

Hola, it's Miguel.

Hi Dad, how's it going?

Hang on.

Yes, listen to me.

I'm in La Plata.

Two minutes ago they passed | the expropriation law for us.

Yes, and soon I think it will | be approved by the deputies too.

Look, I can't talk a lot.

Don't worry Dad, | tell Mom I'm fine.

The law is practically ours.

It all worked out. First in the | senate, now to the deputies...

...who I believe will pass it | tonight.

Bye.

I think we workers know | how to do it,

we've put our hearts into this, | and god willing...

this factory is going | to start running,

but run by the workers.

This is a short song that fits | with the time we're living in.

Please, put your hands | together!

It's by Mercedes Sosa.

And it goes like this...

Who said that all is lost?

More clapping!

Did you like it or not?

"Who said that all is lost?

I come to offer my heart

So much blood washed | away by the river

I come to offer my heart

It won't be easy

But it will pass

It won't be as simple | as I thought at first

Like opening one's chest | and pulling out one's soul

Like a stab of love"

Open up a path!

We're going in - just us.

It's okay, it's okay. Be calm.

Let's go over there, | where there's no police.

These workers have been | helping my sister,

who worked with them.

She's sick with cancer.

They've been helping her: | my sister can't work.

These are the supposed | "bad guys."

Meanwhile, the Brukman bosses | would deduct a day's pay...

...when my sister would go for | chemotherapy and radiation.

They would dock her a day's pay.

These workers are the ones who | are going to get the country going.

These are the people | we should support.

The factory has never been | run the way that they run it.

Nobody is the owner.

It's each one of them.

And what's most beautiful is | that they haven't forgotten...

...their sick companera.

And what's beautiful is that they | collect their own pesos to help her.

Because otherwise we wouldn't | be able to continue the treatments.

These are the people that count.

These are the people of Brukman.

Thank you.

The great majority of | Argentines...

...understood that Menem's | model was exhausted.

Menem realized that he was | going to lose the second round,

because the people were | saying no to him and "the model."

So he dropped out.

Why did you quit?

I won in the first round, | now I'm leaving.

"You are history"

"With this news we're going | live to Nestor Kirchner."

I will take on with courage | and decisiveness...

the responsibility of | governing the republic.

Now he's president, guys.

I believe that the president | will have to help us,

that he'll help cooperatives.

And not multinationals,

because they put their money | in, do what they want, then leave.

And this president, I believe, | will start like this - from below

With respect to the IMF,

we'll see if they like the idea | that we are a cooperative.

They might say, | 'leave it to the market,

and f*** the worker.'

This is what we're doing here | today, this cooperativism.

is our way of making a new world.

To sweep away the old one.

It makes me sad that | you're leaving now,

and our story doesn't have | a happy ending.

It's going to be like | the Matrix.

"To be continued..."

The Sequel.

You know the sequel | would be beautiful.

With Forja working full time, | with 100 or more employees,

noise at night, during the day, | Saturdays, Sundays.

It would be nice when you film | the sequel if you could see...

everything that Forja was,

and everything it will be.

Why not?

Six months later...

Now, every time the machines stop,

everyone comes to see | what's going on.

It's only been three days that | we've been hearing the noise again.

It's incredible what's | happening to us.

Because we missed this noise. | The truth is we really missed it.

Zanon Ceramics has increased | production and hired new workers.

Despite his fiery rhetoric, | President Kirchner signed

a new deal with the IMF.

It looks a lot like the old deals.

The city legislature of Buenos | Aires gave the factory back

to Brukman workers.

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