The Take

As filmed by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein:

It’s a brilliant film. It doesn’t really show any new insight that I haven’t seen before: crowds rushing fences upheld by cruel politicians motivated by business greed over society, workers struggling for their rights, a country in ruin, the IMF officials avoiding interviews.

It’s just, all that stuff is so refreshing to see. We need to be exposed to it more frequently. It brings to mind so many opportunities to change the world – cooperative models of ownership, the world public opinion against globalization in its current state, etc. All that great stuff.

It depresses me when theatres airing such films are not packed. Why are people partying it up when there is so much to be learned, so much more to be discussed about how this future will work? It’s like the whole of society doesn’t give a damn. that, to me, is the real take: we’ve been taken and we need to restore whatever balance of democratic participation existed in the past.