Editor’s note: As a founding member of The Coup and the director of the acclaimed Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley has always brought a social conscious and activism to his work. Today, the c…
has always brought a social conscious and activism to his work. Today, the creator of Prime Video’s upcoming TV series, which previewed at SXSW and the SFFILM Festival earlier this year, puts a spotlight on the stakes of the currentstrike and the threat to creative expression and the boon to corporate control that AI represents.
Like so many others, I found out, the weekend before the strike started, that this time the WGA would be stepping it up and the call was for there to be no WGA members doing any work at all for the studios — including doing post on or promoting their shows.” Since the age of 14, I’ve also been involved in helping people organize on their job — from farmworkers to fast food workers. I’ve helped out with strikes. I’ve helped Greyhound bus drivers and Watsonville cannery workers keep out scabs, helped call for and organize the Occupy Oakland general strike, which had 50,000 people march, join with longshore workers and shut down the Port of Oakland. I’ve worked in factories and distribution centers and been a Teamster.
This solidarity isn’t coming out of nowhere. And the cultural and political context that brought people to this point is the same reason this strike is so important., there have been over 2900 strikes and work stoppages in the US, making this the biggest US strike wave since the 1940s. Many of these strikes are in workplaces that were not unionized, others were forced by the membership against the advice of their old-school leadership.
Many of the issues that the WGA is fighting for are classic ones that everyone can relate to- stopping the push for more work and less pay, hiring more people, training people, and increasing pension contributions, etc.
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