The Coalition of Progressive Electors, Building Better Neighborhoods, Jim Hamm Productions, and the SFU Public Interest Research Group are showing two progressive films at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street). Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, made in 2005, will be screened on Monday (April 14). The Take, a 2004 Canadian documentary by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis about locked-out Argentinean auto-plant workers taking over a factory, will be shown next Thursday (April 17).

“I spent four months in Argentina working around the recovered-factory movement with an organization called the Working World that gives microcredit loans to the recovered factories,” Rachel Marcuse, a member of the COPE executive told the Straight by phone.

Both events kick off at 7:30 p.m. and tickets range from $5 to $10.