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	Avi Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Avi Lewis is a Canadian television journalist and documentary filmmaker.
		He is married to author and activist Naomi Klein, and is the son of Stephen Lewis, United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and Canadian journalist Michele Landsberg.
		Lewis was host of The New Music, a music magazine show on MuchMusic and CityTV in Canada between 1995 and 1998.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avi_Lewis (165 words)

	Seven Oaks Magazine.
		Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis have been described as Canada's "left-wing power couple." With both having established themselves in their own fields --Klein as an author and journalist, and Lewis as a popular television host -- they decided to try their hand at filmmaking.
		Avi Lewis: I think this film – and this movement – is a real challenge to the traditional labour movement.
		But not think, in that way that my parents’ generation and my granfather [David Lewis] did, that we’re actually going to see real change at the legislative level anytime soon, because all of their hands are tied by the same trade agreements and by the same forces of international capital.
	sevenoaksmag.com /questions/36.html (1625 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lewis, 33, is truly in his element on CounterSpin, which debuted in the autumn of 1998.
		Lewis acknowledged that his attire was a source of anxiety at the outset.
		Lewis, who says he was raised as a feminist, was never much interested in becoming a media personality until he fell off a mountain in the Himalayas and injured his leg.
	www.cjnews.com /pastissues/01/mar22-01/tab/tab.htm (739 words)

	Avi Lewis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lewis was host of (additional info and facts about The New Music) The New Music, a music magazine show on (additional info and facts about MuchMusic) MuchMusic and (additional info and facts about CityTV) CityTV in Canada between 1995 and 1998.
		He was also MuchMusic's political specialist, who did extensive special events coverage for the channel in order to engage youth in the political process, including the (additional info and facts about Canadian federal election, 1993) Canadian federal election, 1993 and the (additional info and facts about 1995 Quebec referendum) 1995 Quebec referendum.
		In 2004, Lewis and Klein collaborated on a documentary, (additional info and facts about The Take) The Take, that looked at globalization and economic reform in (A republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America) Argentina.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Av/Avi_Lewis.htm (185 words)

	Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein Release The Take, Another Big-Screen Documentary
		Hoping to ride a wave of successful theatrical documentaries this year, Lewis and his wife and like-minded partner Naomi Klein (author of the anti-globalization bestseller No Logo) are releasing The Take, a film they call "a political thriller" and the results of 2½ years of effort, including seven months of sometimes-dangerous on-location photography in Argentina.
		Lewis served as a first-time film director and editor, while Klein was writer and co-producer.
		Lewis says, too, that moviegoers want to be taken to a world they've never seen before and they are tired of the predictable car crashes and things blowing up in Hollywood action movies.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/1029-08.htm (870 words)

	Film: The Take (washingtonpost.com)
		Director Avi Lewis and writer Naomi Klein will be online Friday, Dec. 3, at Noon ET to discuss "The Take," a documentary film about the struggle of a group of auto workers in Argentina who try to "take back" their jobs in the wake of the country's economic collapse in 2001.
		Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein: NK: There's no doubt that this economic model leads to economic growth but it is not at all clear that that growth of GDP (Growth Domestic Product) is translating into poverty eradication.
		Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein: AL: No. We were in Argentina is the period of a federal election campaign and that election campaign is the backdrop to the story in the film.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A29257-2004Dec2.html?nav=rss_liveonline/entertainment (1750 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		What Lewis found, he says, was a country that feels defeated, alienated from and unsupported by its own government, a country that knows things aren’t how they should be but that can see no viable alternatives.
		With this in mind, Lewis and his wife, Globe and Mail columnist Naomi Klein, went to Argentina looking for stories that would show Canadians that somewhere out there, there was still hope for a better world.
		According to Lewis, the Argentinean example is one that Canadians would do well to remember; while things may not seem as bad here as they are down south right now, one could argue that we’re heading in the same direction.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=800 (774 words)

	Take
		Avi Lewis directed and co-produced the film, which was written and co-produced by Naomi Klein.
		Lewis is a newcomer to feature film, but he directed "Gustavo Benedetto: Presente!" an acclaimed short about a protester that was killed in Buenos Aries at his very first protest.
		Lewis was the host and producer of CBN Newsworld's "Counterspin," a program dedicated to counteracting right wing media bias (see http://www.fair.org/counterspin/).
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/T_2005/take.htm (501 words)

	Conference Speaker :: Frank Dottori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 2002, Lewis directed, shot and edited Gustavo Benedetto: Presente!, a short film on one of the victims of the Argentine police repression of December 19th and 20th, 2001.
		Prior to directing, Avi Lewis worked as the host and producer of counterSpin on CBC Newsworld, where he presided over more than 500 nationally televised debates in three years.
		Lewis was MuchMusic's Political Specialist for five years, where he covered two federal elections and the 1995 referendum on Quebec separation.
	www.ckroundtable.ca /bio_Lewis.html (240 words)

	mercer: May 29, 2000
		He is the son of former Canadian UN envoy Stephen Lewis and raging feminist Michelle Landsberg, grandson of one-time national NDP leader David Lewis, comrade in life to Naomi Klein of the banal anti-freemarket sloganeering, brother in-law to Seth Klein of the far left Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
		Avi is a pedigreed pinko and not terribly original at that.
		Avi himself is big on skewering the pale, patriarchal, penis people for all ills.
	www.nsnews.com /issues00/w052900/mercer.html (814 words)

	SIGNATURE : New Voices, New Impressions ... Feature Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Avi, whose partner is activist superstar Naomi Klein, believes that a period of ‘protest fatigue’ set in after the euphoria of convergences at Seattle in 1999, Melbourne in 2000 and Genoa in 2001.
		Avi is realistic about the movement’s significance: just 15,000 workers in an economy of 30 million people.
		Avi argues that turning away from information gathering and toward “hopes and dreams” necessitates a concerted shift not only in focus, but pace.
	s7digital.com /signature/sig-stories.php?id=491 (1091 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - The Take - Avi Lewis
		Lewis was surprised to find the cutting edge of new activism in the heart of the old economy.
		For Lewis, the sense of inevitability most have with regard to the current economic model is the single greatest barrier to actually effecting social change in our country and around the world.
		The way Lewis and Klein expose the reality of people who acted out of desperation to get back their jobs and were able to create an environment that was fair and equitable for them all, should influence other people to do the same.
	www.hour.ca /redirect.aspx?iIDReaction=9545 (1673 words)

	Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis Offer Their 'Take' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Klein and Lewis granted this interview after a special Vancouver showing of The Take, which opens in theatres Friday, October 29.
		Avi Lewis: I think this film - and this movement - is a real challenge to the traditional labour movement.
		But not think, in that way that my parents' generation and my grandfather [David Lewis] did, that we're actually going to see real change at the legislative level anytime soon, because all of their hands are tied by the same trade agreements and by the same forces of international capital.
	www.thetyee.ca /Entertainment/2004/10/29/KleinLewisOfferTake/print.html (1590 words)

	Imprint: October 22, 2004
		Avi Lewis and Velcrow Ripper celebrate the premieres of their movies at the Guelph International Film Festival.
		Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis blatantly crossed the line between journalism and activism during the making of their first film, The Take, which looks at a refreshingly viable alternative to the IMF-imposed "model" that brought Argentina to its knees.
		Although Klein and husband Lewis were in the centre of the globalization debate at that time and the world was getting more engaged in the issues, they felt a need to do more.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /story.php?f=2&t=5843&i=&v=f&story=5843 (608 words)

	Newsworld Online - Programs: counterSpin
		Avi Lewis is the host of counterSpin, Canada’s only nationally televised debate show, now in its third season on CBC Newsworld Monday to Thursday at 8 p.m.
		On special counterSpin editions during 2000 federal election, Lewis was a constant thorn in the side of Canada's major parties as he dissected their platforms and doggedly pursued political accountability.
		Avi was the face of MuchMusic's political department through two federal elections, and the 1995 referendum on Quebec separation.
	cbc.ca /programs/sites/counterspin_bio.html (496 words)

	Avi Lewis: Gemini Award-Winning Broadcaster
		Avi Lewis is one of Canada’s most controversial and eloquent media personalities, and has recently emerged as an acclaimed documentary filmmaker as well.
		A discussion between father and son, Stephen and Avi Lewis, on how tactics for achieving social change get passed down from generation to generation, and how Avi and his father have influenced each others’ view of this process.
		Stephen’s son Avi, as the consummately modern left-leaning individual is the latest public face of a remarkable political family.
	www.speakers.ca /lewis_avi.aspx (604 words)

	Pinko Plumps Penal Abolition
		Having failed to stray from the ideology of his clan, Avi is not that far removed from the powers that be.
		Avi, who failed to get the goods on the efficacy of unconditional love with psychopaths, ranted about the "hyperbole of the crack down crowd".
		Thus she concludes that the disproportionate percentages of fls and natives in jails is sure proof of systemic racism.
	www.ilanamercer.com /PC12.htm (746 words)

	The Take: Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lewis saw a story in this phenomenon, jetted back to Toronto and convinced the CBC to let him do a 60- minute documentary on one such factory.
		Lewis was on a plane with a skeleton crew to film the powerful and emotional ending to his documentary.
		Instead, Lewis and the workers closed off the streets in front of Brukman and projected the film on a wall of the factory itself.
	www.onf.ca /webextension/thetake/flash/viewPress.php?id=75 (419 words)

	Arthur: There are alternatives!
		As both Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein were in a sense the spokespeople of the anti-globalization movement, their most recent work is a response to critics of the movement who claimed that, aside from the critique of globalization, it had no alternative to offer.
		The worker movement in Argentina is for Lewis and Klein a “real and concrete alternative.” This is largely the thesis of the documentary as well as the theme of the following interview.
		Avi Lewis: In a way, I have a political answer to that and a personal answer to that and they’re intertwined.
	www.trentarthur.info /archives/000498.html (1137 words)

	The Take. Avi Lewis. Naomi Klein. No Logo. Film and Video: movie reviews, Latinos at the Toronto Film Festival and ...
		Mosaico 21 met with the producer of this film, Avi Lewis, in Edmonton, Alberta, to put this Canadian journalist in the hot seat and talk about the “other globalization”, Iraq’s road to emulating Argentina and whether there can really be a viable option to the international free market process.
		Avi Lewis: Economic globalization is not a weather system or an inevitability, but a set of economic policies.
		Avi Lewis: No country on earth embraced the privatization regime to the extent that Argentina did, except maybe some of the countries in the former Soviet Union.
	www.mosaico21.com /onlinemosaicoxxi/english/filmvideo/avilewis.htm (1365 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		TORONTO - Corporate Welfare Bums was the slogan that former NDP leader David Lewis memorably employed on a federal election campaign three decades ago.
		Today his grandson, broadcaster and self-described 'journalist-activist' Avi Lewis, is fighting the same anti-corporate fight, but in the media, not the political arena.
		Hoping to ride a wave of successful theatrical documentaries this year, Lewis and his wife and like-minded partner Naomi Klein (author of the anti-globalization bestseller No Logo) are releasing The Take, a film they call 'a political thriller' and the results of 2?
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8750453&postID=109910140904596147 (213 words)

	SeattleActivism : THE TAKE by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis - with Avi Lewis in person! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Nation's Naomi Klein and liberal radio commentator Avi Lewis' documentary THE TAKE is an alarmingly inspiring film that looks at this movement on both personal and national levels.
		Lewis will be in town to present the film, which runs from Nov. 26 - Dec at the non-profit Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill.
		Avi Lewis will be in Seattle to introduce his film and to conduct a panel-discussion modeled on his radio show (he's a very well known figure in Canada) on activism in film, featuring local activists and filmmakers.
	www.seattleactivism.org /events/event977.htm (521 words)

	NOW: Avi Lewis gets reel, Apr 22 - 28, 2004
		Avi Lewis and I are ensconced on the threadbare couch at the back of the Tequila Mockingbird on Queen West.
		Lewis is talking about the moment during shooting when what he calls their privileged little filmmaking-in-another-country universe was shattered.
		Lewis says 15 years of making political debates work on TV didn't make his directorial debut any easier.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2004-04-22/movie_reviews.php (840 words)

	FilmStew.com • Celluloid Takes Take
		Lewis is a Canadian journalist best known for his work as the host of the CBC talk show counterSpin.
		Lewis noted, "The Canadian Connection, with Charlotte Mickie now at Celluloid Dreams, certainly made the choice easy for us.
		But what excites us most is the way the company embraces an effortless internationalism, and combines it with real political integrity, and a youthful enthusiasm that belies their deep experience.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=9576 (440 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Occupy, Resist, Produce: New Documentary "The Take" Takes on Globalization
		We spotlight a new documentary by Canadian journalists Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein called "The Take" which looks at how workers in Argentina took back their factory after the country's spectacular economic collapse in 2001.
		Along with Avi Lewis, she produced the new film "The Take", which premiers in New York on Wednesday.
		AVI LEWIS: Argentina, what's going on there in the social movements in the occupied factory movement is a real challenge to the Argentine state as well as to a lot of other cherished ideas.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/09/20/144215 (2061 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Avi
		Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomy professor who was not involved in the research, said the early universe was probably dark for half a million years.
		Avi and my other friend Chris were as distraught as I was at the prospect of being out of touch with sports for a whole week...
		The reign of Avi Arad, from Blade to Hulk.
	authors.surfwax.com /files/Avi_Book.html (5381 words)

	Resolutely Hopeful, printer friendly version
		Lewis insists that it is more important that the film is seen in “every church basement and union hall in Canada.” Most of all, Lewis wants to show his film to Canadian workers who might take over abandoned factories there.
		With a view to elaborating on some of the social and political issues that underlie the film, I had an in-depth conversation with director Avi Lewis in Toronto.
		LEWIS: The neighborhood assembly movement, which was an explosion of grassroots street corner democracy at the end of 2001, had a big effect on the making of the film.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Oct2004/roggepr1004.html (2357 words)

	The Take
		An interview with Avi and Naomi that draws the parallels between Argentine and North American factory workers' struggles for survival.
		Naomi and Avi discuss busting Carlyle deals, The Take, why the movement isn't anti-globalization, and the best thing about Toronto with Now Magazine for their "Best of Toronto" issue.
		An urgent appeal from Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: The Zanon ceramic tile factory, a democratic, worker-run factory in Patagonia, is facing a serious threat of eviction, and the workers have asked us to gather international support for their struggle.
	www.nfb.ca /thetake (1957 words)

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