Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP.
my boss who has not spoken to me since he laid me off just sent me an unfunny post by The Onion over instagram DM and then the next day apologized that it was an accident
I guarantee you the studios are going through every outspoken actor’s files looking for something, anything to discredit them. Ron Perlman is probably undergoing the deepest background check of his life right now, thanks to Bob Iger.
So brace yourself to hear some unsavory shit about your favorite actors in the next few weeks. Some of it might even be true. But that doesn’t change the righteousness of the cause or the truths they speak.
I am begging y'all on my hands and knees to learn to support people’s actions without valorizing them.
Also, think about how often you say something without providing full context and nuance.
Now remember how often actors are put in front of press cameras and expected to answer any questions that are fired at them within tight time limits.
Not every inflammatory soundbite or quote represents a person’s full or current views. To shoot down your allies because of an unrelated instance of “wrong opinion” is foolish at best and actively harmful at worst.
^^^ this is what ‘divide and conquer’ looks like.
& honestly, if you’re not yourself a striking writer/actor/etc then it doesn’t matter much whether you fall for this shit. You’re not a part of this fight. But you can look at it and learn from this. This will happen in your own struggles for your own workers rights. ‘Dig up dirt on the leaders’ is a classic union busting technique. Be ready for it.
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