Hey guys! The WGA is asking for people to sign a petition aimed against Universal. Treegate isn’t the first union busting tactic Universal has tried.
They started a construction project that “just so happens” to block some of the sidewalks and forces picketers to walk in the street. The government told Universal they need to install safety rails to replace the sidewalks. A demand Universal has so far ignored.
Please sign the petition for Universal to install the safety rails and reblog.
everyone saying “oh it’s just pocket change for the company this is literally not going to effect their profit” in regards to the tree law situation and the potential upcoming fines, you do not understand these companies. they won’t even spare a few extra pennies for their writers and actors. yes, they are absolutely going to care about having to shill out thousands of dollars in fines PLUS whatever other stuff comes out of this. rich people love their money, even when the loss is minimal to them.
So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see
tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it
anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but
don’t understand?
Don’t.
I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing
on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically
the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right,
if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit
and you wouldn’t even know it.
When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna
reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of
the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a
post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the
surface level.
So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later.
Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through
a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you
could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is
this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does
this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”
If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search
tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY
stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts
with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language.
Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the
op.
And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time
you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no
longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares,
fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than
looking good on a blog.
Postcard from the artist collective project THINK AGAIN
How do they scare people straight?
threaten rejection from family and society, justify hate in the name of god, spread myths about perverts and molesters, incite fear about disease, spread lies about human sexuality, threaten rejection from work and community, propagate lies about sin, publicly humiliate queers, withhold information about sex, erase queers from history, allow homophobia on television, deny queers equal protection under the law, promote family values, promise happiness to those who conform.
“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”
Housekeepers and Janitors Need Praise As Unsung but Very Much Important
Remember when the NRA told doctors to “stay in their lane” RE gun violence and #thisismylane trended as a result?
One of the tweets I saw was a surgeon who’d taken a picture of her OR, having just finished surgery on a young man who’d been shot. Blood. Everywhere.
This bloke retweeted her, mentioning that he worked as a cleaner in a hospital and had had to clean up stuff like this and worse.
Surgeon replied to him (and went up *greatly* in my estimation) and, despite living in different countries, thanked him for his hard work.
I can’t find the tweets sadly, but hers went something like;
“Without a clean and sterile operating room to work in, my team, our skills and the best medicines in the world are next to useless. You are doing invaluable work, without which my work would be impossible.”
since we are talking about people who deserve a higher salary i think teachers should be making six figures a year btw. if state superintendents who have never set foot in a classroom can make that much so should the teachers. teachers are quite literally the backbone of our society and if teachers were actually properly compensated we wouldn’t have a shortage or bad teachers who are continually burnout because of a lack of proper compensation.
can we talk about the ups strike can we PLEASE talk about the ups strike
i know since writers and actors are already striking thats gonna take up most of the news space on social media but like. ups has until july 31st to meet the teamster’s demands and if not then theyre going on the biggest strike against a single corporation since the early 1900s. the uaw (auto manufacturers union) contract is up this fall, and i believe the alu (amazon labor union) is as well. there’s a huge possibility that they might strike as well, depending on how long the ups strike lasts.
im seeing a lot of talk about hollywood going down but i want to see more talk about labor rights and working class solidarity across the board… like A Lot of shit is about to go down
we’re about to see a lot more propaganda by more than just hollywood, we’re about to see a lot of bullshit political moves on local, state, and federal levels. dont fall for it. workers have power.
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