May Day
April 30, 2012 3 Comments
Tomorrow is May 1st. A massive general strike day being organized by the Occupy Movement. If you’re un-employed or employed and able take the day (or even longer) off from work please get out there to show your support in the fight against your company that’s slowly chiseling away at your benefits while sending your jobs overseas.
If you’re like much of the middle class just one step away from being lower class and have so little disposable income that you’re simply too scared or just not willing to take off any work, at very least please don’t be a subservient happy consumer and restrain from shopping (an exception would be your small, local business of course) for all of May for crap you don’t need in the first place.
Gerneral strikes have been hugely effective through history for making the corrupt system which only serves the 1% be forced to listen to the people and have made major advances in forcing the regression machine in a progressive direction as more and more people realize they’re being forced to the bottom.
More information here:
http://occupywallst.org/
http://www.occupymay1st.org/
All I can say is I’m, pretty sure I was the only vfx artist that was out there, and I was out there for civil rights more than vfx. Racial profiling will end before there’s any organization within the industry. Nuff said.
I did mention it a few times, but it was very brief w/ other worker unions such as Iatse 44. But I can’t be the only one.
Stop complaining that your job has been sent overseas… if someone from India or China can do your job for 1/10th of the price then you have a problem and might want to consider a new career. Business is about making profits, not ensuring a dime a dozen artist gets to drive his Audi to work. The market is self regulating, if you’re being replaced by equally competent talent from overseas then clearly there is a disconnect between the pay rate and skills of state side vfx work.