fucking scabs...
You guys have had some good writing up about the strike.
If it's any consolation to you, I have basically watched no teevee since the strike started. I don't think I'm the only person. It might take some time, but that sort of thing might hurt the studios' bottomline and help them reconsider.
I wonder when they'll start announcing their financial results?
"This matters. It is for the future of modern culture and the right to not have six corporations who don't give a shit about anything that matters, control entertainment for the next hundred years."
Sorry. But it's not about that. It DOES matter. But it really isn't about that. If those corporations were really limited to just entertainment, then maybe. But with the way everything is tied together..it's really not about that.
It's about the "right" of the money class to deny paying fair market value for labor. That's what this is all about. It's about denying the working class their cut of the money. That's the eventual goal, to have everybody not on the money side of things working for basically nothing so they can control everything.
That's what this is about. It's just a very public venue, that's all.
It's about the "right" of the money class to deny paying fair market value for labor. That's what this is all about. It's about denying the working class their cut of the money. That's the eventual goal, to have everybody not on the money side of things working for basically nothing so they can control everything.
Word! And in this fight, the fucking Democrats are no friend of the working class.
Here's a minor thing to look for.
I was running around Capitol HIll last month, as part of my job. So, I collected a fair number of cards.
Quick discovery: There are Dems who use union printers, and those who do not, for their business cards.
Those who do: Clinton and Holt.
Those who do not: Dodd.
Clinton is really inconsistent on unions, but Holt is golden. Dodd is an ass.
This is just a friendly FYI to figure out who's "True blue" and who's not.
during the vegas musician's strike i walked the line wearing a great t-shirt, bright red, big black letters which said
LIVE BETTER
WORK UNION
got lots of horn toots and stuff. you're dead solid on target here. this isn't about even trying to play the game, the producer's want to pop the football.
man at least you got a union...i get hammered every time i bring up teh idae in IT land. hell if we even start to unionize there is an army of H1B's to take our place. Sure the company will suffer due to crappy work, but that will be years down the line.
You should be lead negotiator or the guy preaching to the choir.
I like the idea of writing the studios out. Make a co-op for the production of movies and kick the studios ass. Movies suck because of studio influence. Tv sucks. If the artists had more control then they could make entertainment that had less suck in it. Consumers win producers lose. Workers are happy. Everyone who matters wins. It'd be worth a few crappy years in the long run.
I bet Apple would be in a strong position to handle distribution in a fair way in a few years.
JW, this may be one of your best posts.
Getting that concept out there of how to abandon the studios {what happened to the recording companies, the newsprint press?}and actually starting down that path IS the only hope for the writers.
And by the time the studios figure that out and sit down again, why hell, the writers may just decide the studio and producer era of parasitic pleasure is over and they won't bother to ever go back to that game.
For me, the idea that the writers would accept the 2.5 cents proposal is bizarre and the idea that the producers won't even offer it is beyond comprehension. Have the writers no pride? It IS time to march off in another direction. Start shouting about that, friend. BTW, I was a Film Union member back in the seventies. I think we had one 1 day strike. The owners were smarter than to shoot themselves in the foot.
And your extreme dislike of the disaster control operation is just right, too.
Sometimes these outfits learn too late that your disaster is my disaster and we are sinking in the quicksand together and .... blub blub. Some disasters just cannot be managed.
The flip side of this sad sad tale is:
Can the writers survive and pay the bills until the crisis passes? The studio/producer cabal is betting that the answer is no. It's that simple.
As for how much the public really cares about what happens to the writers, I would not put too much faith in that backing if I were you.
Where can we contribute to the strike fund or at least buy a few WGA t-shirts? I checked the websites but didn't see anything; cafepress has some good shirts but who knows who's getting the money.
For strike stuff that's on the up and up, go to http://www.strikeswag.com/
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