Working People and the Crisis

Film Screening and Discussion
Working People and the Crisis: From Argentina to the Bronx
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:30pm
Library Screening room (RSVP required)
Watch “The Take,” a film on unemployed workers in Argentina who have been taking over bandoned factories and running them democratically. Could this happen in the Untied States?
Discuss with Mike Filippou, a union activist and a worker at Stella D’ Oro’s bakery in the Bronx. Stella D’ Oro workers recently went o strike for 11 months, won, but now have to fight against Stella D’ Oro management’s decision to close the factory and reopen it with non-union labor in another part of the country.
Seating is limited, so please RSVP. For more information and to RSVP contact Prof. Panayotakis at cpanayotakis@citytech.cuny.edu.
Here is a trailer for “The Take”.