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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She is exactly what is wrong with this country.
So donate all your wealth to them, AOC. Just to show you’re not greedy…
Such a fighter for the little people, she is. /sarc
She knows a thing or two about greed.
She needs to floss those choppers.
Look who's talking!!!!
Take a look in the mirror, honey, if you want to see the face of greed.
That's for the blazer. The Isabel wool-blend slim-line pants - $890. Gonna need shoes. The Manolo Blahnik BB pumps are a steal @ $625.
I hope this strike goes on for many years.
Sucks for the normals who work in the industry but I hope it burns anyway.
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