SPECIAL SCREENINGS OF NAOMI KLEIN'S "THE TAKE" W/ DIRECTOR TALK

Hello Friends - Many of you may already be aware of the struggle that has been going on between graduate student teaching assistants and the New York University administration to maintain the recognition of our union (GSOC) and to negotiate a new contract after the last one lapsed on August 31. With NYU steadfastly refusing to recognize our right to exist as a union, let Alone sit down at the bargaining table, this battle has been escalating and may soon result in graduate students going on strike at NYU. In support of GSOC, Avi Lewis, the director of the acclaimed 2004 documentary The Take, will be doing a special screening of his film this Saturday at Cooper Union. He will be in attendence to introduce the film and to do an extended Q&A afterward. The screening is free to the public, though a suggested donation will be collected for The Working World, a non-profit organization inspired by The Take and dedicated to improving the working lives of people through self-reliance and democratic organization. The Take is about a group of Argentine workers who, in the aftermath of the country's 2001 monetary collapse, took their lives, destinies, and factories back into their own hands. It is a totally engaging and inspiring film and we hope you will join us... and please spread the word. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE TAKE...a film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein ** Returns to NYC for One Weekend Only! ** TWO SPECIAL SCREENINGS this Saturday & Sunday Followed by extensive Q&A with director Avi Lewis To support local and international labor struggles The Take a film by Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein [2004, color, 87 min] In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - The Take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Saturday, October 29th, 2005 Screening in support of NYU graduate students' struggle for union recognition and a new contract 7pm @ Cooper Union's Wollman Theatre 51 Astor Place (b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.) $5 Suggested Donation Sunday, October 30th, 2005 7 pm @ Columbia University's Roone Arledge Cinema Lerner Hall, (115th and Broadway) $ 5 Suggested Donation Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. Although both screenings are free and open to the public, all funds collected will support The Working World, an organization providing microfinance loans to workers' organizations in the global south. http://www.theworkingworld.org