The Take On CBC/CBCNW

Did anyone see "The Take" tonight?

I've really been feeling lately that our governments are making themselves irrelevant to us. Who needs them for what they are providing the people? We are not in their thoughts when they are making policy. I do not believe we have democracy and sovereignty.

To see how the Argentinian workers lost their livihood was incredibly painful to watch yet it took the banks closing their doors to them and the multinationals packing truckloads of cash out of the country before they realized they were in deep dodo. I can only guess that that will be what it takes for Canadians to wakeup to what the government is giving away to the multinations. The Argentinians were saying the exact same things we have been saying here. "Our government sold our country to the multinationals." "The multinationals come and take what they want and then leave."

It was very moving to watch the workers take their workplaces back through cooperatives. You really do need a sense of community to make a society strong and impenetrable by outside forces that may not have your best interests at heart.

This was a very timely documentary I believe.

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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias

<p> I have just ordered the DVD and I’ll be watching it soon. I have seen the trailer though on <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/thetake/">its website</a>. I think the possibility of anything like that happening here in Canada is remote. We still have some time left, I think, to make sure that we elect representatives who are not Corporate minions. I hope I'm not wrong! <p> Meanwhile, I am doing my best to promote the poster <a href="http://www.socialjustice.org/poster.php"><i><b>Exposing the face of corporate power</b></i></a> from the <b>Centre for Social Justice</b> <i>(this is a personal endeavour)</i>. It does not cost that much. It can be put up in our workplace. This poster is very interesting. It would certainly liven those dreadful cubicle partitions but more importantly it may serve as a wake-up call to our colleagues or others passing by. This could be one way, albeit a small one, to combat apathy. <p>

It was an interesting show.I have no problem with free enterprise,but this capitalism stuff has got to go.We are going to end up like Argentina.
What do the others out there in Vive land feel?