Re: First ATA agency breaks ranks
From what Mazin says, it's clear he's not concerned that packaging is, and has always been, a form of racketeering, as David Simon has said. It's a crime which should have prosecuted under the RICO statute long ago. The WGA membership should accept (as I think a majority do) that the elimination of packaging and its ancillary injustices will be an order-of-magnitude change which won't be achieved overnight. Creative people deserve both to be fairly compensated and to be free to work with who they will.
Worth remembering these words of Frederick Douglass:
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
From what Mazin says, it's clear he's not concerned that packaging is, and has always been, a form of racketeering, as David Simon has said. It's a crime which should have prosecuted under the RICO statute long ago. The WGA membership should accept (as I think a majority do) that the elimination of packaging and its ancillary injustices will be an order-of-magnitude change which won't be achieved overnight. Creative people deserve both to be fairly compensated and to be free to work with who they will.
Worth remembering these words of Frederick Douglass:
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
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