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cascadiance

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7. Yes! Perhaps look at some of the laws in Argentina that helped start this movement many years back.

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Reply #2)

Fri May 10, 2013, 10:47 AM

May 2013

... as Naomi Klein and her husband Avi Lewis helped document in their landmark documentary "The Take" that helped motivate such subsequent efforts like the one in Republic to "occupy and resist" when owners try to shut down workplaces and people's lives that don't want and can't afford them to stop...

http://www.thetake.org/

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THIS. 99th_Monkey May 2013 #2

Yeah we should probably start pressing the politicians on this issue... limpyhobbler May 2013 #5

+1000 n/t 99th_Monkey May 2013 #6

Yes! Perhaps look at some of the laws in Argentina that helped start this movement many years back. cascadiance May 2013 #7

Yes yes. 99th_Monkey May 2013 #8

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