Strike ME
So I was messing around online checking things out. You know. Doing my serious research to write this informative blog. Actually, it was research for my blog watchingcw.com. But, anyway, I’m not sure how I missed these before, but I guess I’ve been living in a ditch since Thanksgiving. Possibly longer.
I found these youtube videos (part 1 and part 2) of Mutant Enemy Day at the strike. Wow, I had absolutely no idea. I didn’t realize that hundreds of people would show up from all over the world to support the strike. If I had given it any thought, I guess I should have known that Joss’s fans would rally en masse to support him.
I’ve been sitting around bemoaning what a nuisance the strike is cause I’m missing my shows and cause I need stuff to write about in my blogs. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually voiced an opinion one way or another, but I am in support of the strike. I’m not generally a big supporter of unions, mostly because I think a lot of people use the union to gain stuff they probably don’t need. I’m not trying to judge, just voicing an opinion. When you read about the beginning of unions in this country, with the advent of the industrial age, you can see that these people were fighting for something that was necessary. They worked 12+ hour days for very low wages that they then were forced to spend entirely in the company’s store, so that they were continually in debt to the company they worked for and they could never get out from under it. Nowadays, it seems like unions are fighting for stuff like half hour breaks every hour or whatever. OK, that was a generalization, but hopefully you get my point.
If I correctly understand what the writers want, its really just what they are due for the work they’ve done.
So I’ll just end this blog by asking you to visit unitedhollywood.com and repeating Joss’s final words on the video, “You people are causing a disturbance. Thank you so much for causing it.”
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writers strike, Mutant Enemy, Joss Whedon
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Thanks for the link … I am a big Joss Whedon fan so of course I clicked through from the 451press.com page when I saw you had posted the Mutant Enemy logo. There has been some great coverage of the strike on whedonesque.com too, and people can support the strike (and win some Mutant Enemy related prizes, as well as some Battlestar Galactica prizes) at http://www.fans4writers.com.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Thanks for the link, Margie.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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February 6th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
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