Posted on 07/24/2023 5:27:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America picket lines in New York City on Monday, encouraging workers to keep fighting and taking aim at executives such as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and their “insatiable greed.”
“While this is a fight against AI, more than AI, this is a fight against greed,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“How many private jets does David Zaslav need? For real. How many private jets do the CEOs need? It is insatiable. It is unacceptable. I do not know how any person can say, ‘I need another $100 million before another person can have health care,’” she continued.
Speaking in front of the Netflix offices in Union Square, where picketers had included Tatiana Maslany, Sandra Bernhard and F. Murray Abraham, Ocasio-Cortez picked up a SAG-AFTRA sign, joined in on the chants (such as “New York is a union town”) and took selfies with many on the lines. She was accompanied by AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler.
Ocasio-Cortez, who serves as the Democratic representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District, called the current moment a “hot labor summer,” comparing the fights of the actors and writers with that of UPS workers, who may soon be striking.
“We have workers all across the country either currently on strike or gearing up to be on strike, because at the end of the day we are all facing the same challenge, which is the concentration of wealth and corporate greed in America,” she said.
“Direct action gets the goods, now and always,” she continued. “The only way that we can do this is by showing them that we are stronger. That our solidarity is stronger than their greed, that our care for one another will overcome their endless desire for more.
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who is going to write her script?
This will help AOC get in touch with ordinary people.
My world is crumbling because I don’t have liberally slanted shows to watch on tv.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/list/top-50-actors/
And how much are they asking for a pay raise?
Look at the greedy, little rich princess attacking the “greedsters”. ROTFLMAO!
I don’t think I have ever seen a less plausible straw man argument - unless she is referring to Democrats demanding more money before whites are allowed to have their health care back.
Here is the fallacy in her argument: taxing the rich will mean improving the lot of the poor.
Taxing the rich and not so rich can result in a high speed rail in Califorina that after twenty years has not seen a single passenger. The transcontinental railroad was built in six years; the Eire Canal in eight years. Both were primarily built by hand.
Isn’t this the greedy, self-centered bitch who stole from the tip jar?
I thought so..
It's like a nightmare, but I can't wake up.
Ignorant, arrogant Puerto Rican cocktail waitress. Each day should looks more like a cane field worker, weathered, leathery, wrinkled.
AOC is not donating her monthly feral gov’t check to a real charity like the Orange Man did?
AOC is not donating her monthly feral gov’t check to a real charity like the Orange Man did?
She took the money from her campaign and transferred it to her boyfriends checking account in the millions but she’s one to talk about greed
Uh...you’d need to be AS (Artificial Stupidity) to replace her.
Virtue Signaled.
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