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AOC Joins Actors and Writers on New York Picket Line: “This Is a Fight Against Greed”
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 7/24/23 | Caitlin Huston

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; aocisgreedy; greed; hollyweird; picket; poeticjustice; sagaftra; writers; writersguild
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The bartender needs another green $1990.00 Gabriela Hearst Angela double-breasted wool-blend blazer. Could be greed. Watch out - AI, or any I can replace her.


1 posted on 07/24/2023 5:27:50 PM PDT by Libloather
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who is going to write her script?


2 posted on 07/24/2023 5:30:46 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
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To: Libloather

This will help AOC get in touch with ordinary people.


3 posted on 07/24/2023 5:34:35 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

My world is crumbling because I don’t have liberally slanted shows to watch on tv.


4 posted on 07/24/2023 5:37:56 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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I'm not usually pro-union, certainly not pro-AOC, but this time I'm 100% with them all the way. Stay on strike. Hang tough. Never give in. /snicker
5 posted on 07/24/2023 5:38:14 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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I'm not usually pro-union, certainly not pro-AOC, but this time I'm 100% with them all the way. Stay on strike. Hang tough. Never give in. /snicker
6 posted on 07/24/2023 5:38:15 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Gee, it’s doubtful that that guy would make it onto the list of Wealthy Top 50 Actors.......

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/list/top-50-actors/

7 posted on 07/24/2023 5:39:18 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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And how much are they asking for a pay raise?


8 posted on 07/24/2023 5:40:41 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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Look at the greedy, little rich princess attacking the “greedsters”. ROTFLMAO!


9 posted on 07/24/2023 5:40:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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I do not know how any person can say, ‘I need another $100 million before another person can have health care,’” she continued.

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.

10 posted on 07/24/2023 5:41:53 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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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.


11 posted on 07/24/2023 5:43:10 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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Isn’t this the greedy, self-centered bitch who stole from the tip jar?

I thought so..


12 posted on 07/24/2023 5:46:04 PM PDT by AFret. (.)
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My world is crumbling because I don’t have liberally slanted shows to watch on tv.

It's like a nightmare, but I can't wake up.

13 posted on 07/24/2023 5:46:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Ignorant, arrogant Puerto Rican cocktail waitress. Each day should looks more like a cane field worker, weathered, leathery, wrinkled.


14 posted on 07/24/2023 5:46:41 PM PDT by twister881
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AOC is not donating her monthly feral gov’t check to a real charity like the Orange Man did?


15 posted on 07/24/2023 5:47:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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AOC is not donating her monthly feral gov’t check to a real charity like the Orange Man did?


16 posted on 07/24/2023 5:47:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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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


17 posted on 07/24/2023 5:47:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Libloather

Uh...you’d need to be AS (Artificial Stupidity) to replace her.


18 posted on 07/24/2023 5:48:23 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: Libloather
"Hee-Haw!"


19 posted on 07/24/2023 5:55:02 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Libloather

Virtue Signaled.


20 posted on 07/24/2023 5:56:29 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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