You are cordially invited to
attend the weekly meeting of the

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> POTLUCK FOR PROGRESSIVES <
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Friday, May 22, 2009
6:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(Film starts at 7:30 P.M)

Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim
511 South Harbor Blvd.
Anaheim, California
(Located on the Southwest corner
of Harbor Blvd. and Santa Ana Street)

(714) 758-1050
www.uuchurchoc.org

The "Potluck for Progressives" is a group organized
for the purpose of bringing together likeminded
people on a weekly basis to break bread and talk about
crucial issues affecting the community and the world.

At each meeting, people interested in peace, social
justice, labor, and the environment gather to exchange
ideas, talk about successes, plan actions, or just
engage in a friendly discussion with one another.

Bring a dish to share! Enjoy the bounty that others
bring as well! The potluck will start at 6:30 p.m. with
a speaker or film to follow at 7:30 p.m. Please join
us even if you can't bring any food!

On the Agenda:

Progressive Potluck

6:30 - 7:30 P.M.

Bring along your favorite dish of food,
chips, dips, or soft drinks, and spend
an hour mingling with progressive people
from all over Orange County.

Featured Film:

7:30 - 9:00 P.M.

We will be screening "The Take," a 2004
documentary directed, produced and written by
Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, shot in Argentina,
where a "prosperous middle-class economy" was
destroyed during a decade of IMF and Wprld
Bank policies, as enforced by right-wing
President Carlos Menem. Factories were
closed, their assets were liquidated, and
money fled the country, sometimes by the
truckload. After most of it was gone, Menem
closed the banks, causing massive riots. More
than half of all Argentineans were plunged
into poverty; unemployment soared to double
digits.

As a result, some workers began seizing
control of their closed factories to reopen
and operate them as cooperatives without
bosses or owners. Their argument: The
factories were subsidized in the first place
by corporate welfare, so if the owners didn't
want to operate them, the workers would. The
owners saw this differently, calling the
occupations theft. Committees of workers
monitored the factories to prevent owners
from selling off machinery and other assets
in defiance of the courts. And many of the
factories not only reopened, but were able to
produce comparable or superior goods at lower
prices.

"The Take" focuses mostly on the attempts of
workers to expropriate and operate a
shuttered auto parts factory in Buenos Aires.
The owner, who had abandoned it years
earlier, claimed that it was no longer
profitable to keep it running, leaving many
of the workers unemployed and owing them
millions in unpaid wages. The film not only
chronicles their day-to-day struggles, but
illuminates the fact they are part of a much
broader movement emerging in Argentina
where workers began seizing and running
factories for the benefit of themselves and
their communities.

Open Forum

9:00 - 9:30 P.M.

Open discussion, announcements,
and other news of interest.

The "Potluck for Progressives" is endorsed by the
Social Concerns Committee of the Unitarian Universalist
Church in Anaheim and is free and open to the
general public. Although a small donation might
be requested to help pay for facility costs, nobody
will be turned away due to a lack of funds.

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