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	Article - Workers' control of FaSinPat continues despite attacks
		Amid threats and attacks, the workers at the Argentine ceramic factory FaSinPat (for Factory Without a Boss) are organizing to maintain workers' control of the factory and to overcome the legal obstacles that threaten the factory's existence.
		FaSinPat (formerly Zanon), under workers' control since 2001, could be resold to a new owner, which according to the workers would result in the loss of many jobs or even the closure of the factory.
		Over the last several weeks, leaders of the Ceramic Workers' Union in the province of Neuquen and their family members have received death threats, and the wife of one of them was kidnapped and tortured in an attempt to make the workers give up their struggle for control of the factory.
	www.hellocoolworld.com /thetake/grassroots/action/FaSinPat_en.htm (446 words)

	Squatter Factories of Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The case of Fasinpat (Fabrica Sin Patrones or Factory Without Bosses) illustrates the total lack of state support for workers who have refused to sit back and watch the factories where they worked for decades deteriorate into huge rundown warehouses with broken windows and rusty machinery peering out from the weeds of a ghost town.
		In some districts, the workers running factories that were abandoned by their owners have successfully pressed for statutes and laws, passed by city councils and provincial legislatures, that have enabled them to run the companies legally.
		In a telephone conversation with IPS, Alejandro Lspez, the secretary of the Fasinpat workers union, said that for three years the workers have been asking the judge handling the case to expropriate the factory on behalf of the state.
	www.talkaboutinvestments.com /group/sci.econ/messages/225210.html (914 words)

	FaSinPat at AllExperts
		FaSinPat, formerly known as Zanon, is a worker-controlled ceramic tile factory in the southern Argentine province of NeuquÃ©n, and one of the most prominent in the recovered factory movement of Argentina.
		In 2002, the government abandoned the fixed 1-to-1 peso-dollar parity and decreed the pesificaciÃ³n ("peso-ification"), that is, the conversion of all bank accounts denominated in dollars into pesos at the official rate.
		FaSinPat have also been the target of increasing violence and death threats, such as a female worker who was kidnapped and tortured in March 2005.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fa/fasinpat.htm (656 words)

	ZNet Commentary: Workers without bosses at a turning point
		In October 2005, FaSinPat won a legal dispute, pressuring federal courts to recognize it as a legal entity that has the right to run the cooperative for one year.
		As part of their celebration, the FASINPAT cooperative has invited workers to visit Zanon to learn that workers can function without a boss or owner.
		The workers' assembly has resolved that the body of workers is now in the position to teach other workers from the four and a half years of learning from worker self-management.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2006-11/09trigona.cfm (1412 words)

	[Reader-list] ARGENTINA: Factories Without Bosses - and Without State Support
		In a telephone conversation with IPS, Alejandro López, the secretary of the Fasinpat workers union, said that for three years the workers have been asking the judge handling the case to expropriate the factory on behalf of the state.
		Unlike other "recuperated" companies that turn into cooperatives, Fasinpat wants the factory to be nationalised, and run by the workers.
		In the meeting, he pressed for the passage of a law that would allow the state to expropriate and nationalise firms that had gone under, in order to give the employees the option of keeping the companies open.
	mail.sarai.net /pipermail/reader-list/2004-December/004639.html (1211 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		The case of Fasinpat (Fábrica Sin Patrones or Factory Without Bosses) illustrates the total lack of state support for workers who have refused to sit back and watch the factories where they worked for decades deteriorate into huge rundown warehouses with broken windows and rusty machinery peering out from the weeds of a ghost town.
		In a telephone conversation with IPS, Alejandro López, the secretary of the Fasinpat workers union, said that for three years the workers have been asking the judge handling the case to expropriate the factory on behalf of the state.
		In the meeting, he pressed for the passage of a law that would allow the state to expropriate and nationalise firms that had gone under, in order to give the employees the option of keeping the companies open.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=26463 (1192 words)

	Victory for Zanon workers
		The courts have extended by three years the mandate of the workers at Fábrica Sin Patrón (Factory Without a Boss; FaSinPat), formerly known as Zanon, with the result that they can continue running their co-operative; the courts also paid tribute to the workers' organizational ability.
		A victory for the ceramics workers of FaSinPat (Fábrica sin Patrón), formerly known as Zanon.
		The courts extended the workers' mandate by three years, so that they can continue running their co-operative with the same degree of liberty with which they have been managing the factory, and praised the workers' management which has been in place for over five years.
	www.nosweat.org.uk /node/117/print (721 words)

	International Support for the Workers of Zanon Petition
		Grant legal recognition to the Zanon workers’ co-operative, FaSinPat, and acknowledge the important social and economic contribution they have made to their community over the past three years.
		Otorgar reconocimiento legal a la cooperativa de los trabajadores de Zanón, FaSinPat, y reconocer la importante contribución social y económica que éstos han hecho a la comunidad a lo largo de los últimos tres años.
		Senza il riconoscimento giuridico della cooperativa, i lavoratori della Zanon non possono portare avanti i loro progetti di esportazione delle piastrelle di ceramica: tutti noi apettiamo con entusiasmo di acquistare i loro prodotti nel resto del mondo!
	www.petitiononline.com /zanon/petition.html (1325 words)

	The Take - A documentary film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some of the persecution showed technological innovations, as when cell phone calls were tapped (or "punctured," in the lingering term from the days of the dictatorship).
		On the Web page www.fasinpat.com.ar are shown models and designs of the ceramics produced in the plant, 13 different kinds including Mapuche (the name of an indigenous people) and Obrero (worker), natural flooring tile and polished flooring tile (another 12 collections).
		Potentially, these products place FaSinPat at a level able to compete internationally, since Zanón, before killing the hen that laid the golden eggs, was exporting to Australia and ten European countries.
	thetake.org /chapterlavaca.php (4095 words)

	The Nonviolent Activist — May-June 2005
		The FaSinPat workers have resisted five eviction attempts with the solidarity and help of the Mapuche, neighbors, students, workers from the piquetero movement, the prisoners of the nearby Prison #11 (who, while imprisoned, shared their food rations with workers when they initially recovered Zanón) and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
		When the week passed and nobody had placed a bid, the workers at FaSinPat considered it a step forward in their struggle to be legally recognized as a cooperative.
		During the visit Rato said to Kirchner, “At the IMF we have a problem called Argentina.” Kirchner replied, “I have a problem called 15 million poor people.” Perhaps now, what is needed is for President Kirchner to act on the human rights platform he ran on.
	www.warresisters.org /nva0505-4.htm (1736 words)

	New Sector issue68 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is the view of Marie Trigona, the Argentinian journalist who wrote last year in New Sector about the workers’ occupation of the former Zanon ceramics factory.
		The factory, now called FaSinPat (factory without bosses), has been successfully run by a workers’ collective since March 2002 with strong support from the local community in Neuquén.
		On 28 April the workers of FaSinPat co-operative issued a jubilant press release saying “The public notices were published and five days have passed: the deadline for the cram-down has passed and no investors have registered.
	www.newsector.co.uk /articles/68international.htm (712 words)

	Reinventing Working Culture at Zanon
		The FaSinPat cooperative presented a legal proposal in May, backed by 17,000 signatures, requesting the definitive expropriation of the factory.
		FaSinPat is not a bureaucratic cooperative.” He added that the cooperative status has opened up many doors for FaSinPat.
		The objective of the Women’s Commission is for the women at the factory to build their own space to meet and discuss prejudice they face in a sexist society.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Sep2006/trigona0906.html (2072 words)

	Fasinpat (Fábrica Sin Patrón) incorpora 15 nuevos trabajadores a la ex Zanon
		La cooperativa Fasinpat, que tiene a su cargo la gestión de la ex cerámica Zanon, incorporó ayer a 15 nuevos trabajadores, con los que la planta de personal de la fábrica ascenderá a 466 personas.
		Entre los 15 obreros nuevos de Fasinpat, que comenzaron a trabajar ayer, hay 6 mujeres.
		Según López, "los diputados ya tuvieron el tiempo suficiente como para analizar a fondo nuestro proyecto; así que el martes les vamos a pedir que nos den una respuesta a la propuesta de expropiación que presentamos".
	www.lahaine.org /skins/basic/lhart_imp.php?p=16410 (374 words)

	People's Weekly World - WORLDNOTES
		The factory, formerly known as Zanon, covers an area of about 20 acres and is now a cooperative run by workers.
		In addition to providing a safe and productive workplace, Fasinpat has made numerous contributions to community programs, including schools, hospitals, food programs and services benefiting indigenous people.
		Fasinpat workers participated in the First Latin American Gathering of Worker-Recovered Factories last October in Caracas, Venezuela.
	www.pww.org /index.php/article/articleprint/8937 (724 words)

	Argentina: An Agreement to Live - From Zanón to FaSinPat : Thunderbay IMC
		After long legal maneuvering, a bankruptcy judge decided to hand the factory over to the Fasinpat cooperative in exchange for payment of 30,000 pesos (about $10,000) a month in taxes.
		On the Web page http://www.fasinpat.com.ar are shown models and designs of the ceramics produced in the plant, 13 different kinds including Mapuche (the name of an indigenous people) and Obrero (worker), natural flooring tile and polished flooring tile (another 12 collections).
		Potentially, these products place FaSinPat at a level able to compete internationally, since Zanón, before killing the hen that laid the golden eggs, was exporting to Australia and ten European countries.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /print.php?id=21734&comments=yes (4125 words)

	Toward Freedom - Zanon: Worker Managed Production, Community and Dignity
		In October 2005, the FaSinPat cooperative won a legal dispute, pressuring federal courts to legally recognize the FaSinPat as a legal entity that has the right to run the cooperative for one year.
		As part of the campaign for the definitive expropriation of FASINPAT, Zanon workers produced a television commercial inviting viewers to participate in the march.
		The FaSinPat cooperative has presented a legal proposal, backed by 17,000 signatures, requesting the definitive expropriation of the factory.
	towardfreedom.com /home/content/view/855 (1516 words)

	Support Zanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Argentina Zanon by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein December 04, 2004 Dear Friends, Workers at the Zanon ceramic tile factory -- an inspiring, worker-run factory in Argentina -- have asked us to gather international support to prevent their eviction.
		The Zanon workers' co-operative is called FaSinPat, short for Fabricas Sin Patrones, Factories Without Bosses.
		Their highly successful combination of direct action and direct democracy is a precious example of that other world that is possible and that is growing before our eyes.
	www.talkaboutculture.com /group/soc.culture.misc/messages/10913.html (419 words)

	Neuquen/Europa: Solidaridad con FaSinPat : TEST IMC
		Por la presente informamos a todos y todas acerca de la próxima visita de Compañeros de la fábrica ceramista de Neuquén, Argentina; bajo control obrero y autogestionada plenamente por sus trabajadores.
		Fasinpat el nombre de la cooperativa que estamos exigiendo al juez del concurso, el nombre surgió luego de un asamblea realizada en el año 2003.
		Sin dudas que nuestra gran identidad política y de lucha es la de ser obreros de zanon bajo control obrero ahora produciendo cerámicos Fasinpat.
	valparaiso.indymedia.org /news/2005/03/2284.php (1614 words)

	IRC Americas Program \| Another World is Possible: The Ceramics of Zanon
		The factory has legally changed its name to Fasinpat (Fábrica Sin Patrón, or Factory Without Owner), become a cooperative, and started making a countless number of donations: to hospitals, schools, nursing homes, soup kitchens for the general public and for children, to indigenous groups and groups with disabilities, firefighters, and the Red Cross of Neuguén.
		The Zanon workers awarded thousands of square feet of ceramics as a sign of recognition for help they had received and because they believe the profits of a business should be returned to the community.
		Under the guidance of the community members—400 families who had for 40 years run a first aid center—the Fasinpat employees donated the materials and constructed a health center for the members of the neighborhood.
	americas.irc-online.org /am/3078 (2835 words)

	Untitled Document
		Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 29 (IPS) — “We have gas masks, slingshots, and stones to defend ourselves,” said an employee at a worker-run tile factory in Argentina that is facing the threat of being shut down, because local authorities want the machinery seized to collect on a debt left unpaid by the former owners.
		And in other cases, like Fasinpat in the southern Argentine province of Neuquén, authorities have even taken action against the workers.
		Murúa also asked the center-left Kirchner for a one-time subsidy payment equivalent to 5,000 dollars per job, which would give the workers access to financing, since the legal vacuum in which companies like Fasinpat are caught up makes it impossible to secure bank loans.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/308/labor.html (1808 words)

	Indymedia Scotland: newswire/799 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The workers of Zanon persist on their aim to nationalise the factory and to bring it under state control so they can produce there in autonomy for the public (instead of for the market).
		Nethertheless, they created the cooperative FASINPAT (Fábrica sin Patrones - factory without bosses), in order to enable achieving a legal status as a temporary solution.
		So far this cooperative has not been recognized.
	scotland.indymedia.org /newswire/index.php?function=translation_edit&id=799 (1265 words)

	Update and latest appeal to support the workers of Zanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is clear that the deep community support for the workers' struggle, both locally and internationally, has dissuaded those who want to take the factory away from the community that has defended and nurtured it.
		This is not a permanent solution, but it will at least make the situation less precarious, and allow the workers to work without the constant threat of eviction.
		As part of a global movement for social justice, we must defend this inspiring concrete example of those other worlds we know we can create.
	www.blogbloc.com /post/116 (448 words)

	Upside Down World - An Agreement to Live: From Zanón to FaSinPat
		It was a big step toward final expropriation and a recognition of the solid work of its 470 workers.
		Through all this they have been systematically accosted on a variety of fronts -- in the courts, by police, in politics, from organized crime.
		Some of the persecution showed technological innovations, as when cell phone calls were tapped (or "punctured," in the lingering term from the days of the dictatorship).
	upsidedownworld.org /main/content/view/117/1 (4107 words)

	Welcome to the Grassroots page for The Take Film!
		The public notices were published and five days have passed: the deadline for the cram-down has passed and no investors have registered.
		The judge must now declare the factory bankrupt and recognize the workers' administration via the FaSinPat cooperative (article 48 and related sections of the bankruptcy law).
		This is not a permanent solution but it staves off those with dubious interests who would try to take over Zanon and pave the way for its eviction.
	www.hellocoolworld.com /thetake/grassroots/action/news_apr_28_05_eng.htm (281 words)

	IRC Americas Program \| Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina: Reversing the Logic of Capitalism
		The Zanon cooperative, formally named FaSinPat, functions as an autonomous entity but also forms part of the Ceramists Union in Neuquén.
		The FaSinPat is the only recuperated factory demanding national expropriation of their ceramics plant under worker control.
		In December 2005, the FaSinPat cooperative won a legal dispute, pressuring a federal court to legally recognize the FaSinPat as a legal entity that has the right to run the cooperative for one year.
	americas.irc-online.org /am/3158 (4119 words)

	americas.org - THE NEW RESISTANCE IN ARGENTINA Workers Defend "Recovered Factories" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In defending the autonomous management of their workplaces, the workers are also petitioning the courts for a one-time government subsidy of US$5,000 per job to cover start-up costs.
		In Neuquen, the Zanon ceramic factory has been renamed FaSinPat by its workers, short for "Fabrica Sin Patrones" ("Factory Without Bosses").
		The FaSinPat workers have resisted five eviction attempts with the solidarity and help of the Mapuche, neighbors, students, workers from the piquetero movement, and even the prisoners of the nearby Prison #11--who shared their food rations with workers when they initially recovered the factory.
	www.americas.org /item_20352 (1864 words)

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