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11-09-2007, 11:22 AM
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Do you think there are writers who aren't at the picket lines and are, instead, chilling at home? Sorry, I'm not a big picket fan, no matter what.
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What the hell does that have to do with it? They aren't at work, so I would not judge what they are doing while on strike. As long as they aren't at work, they are STILL proving a point.
You are against people fighting for what they believe is right? Just wondering. Because, I doubt people on the picket lines are doing it for fun. They are doing it to try and get what they feel they deserve.
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11-09-2007, 01:34 PM
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What the hell does that have to do with it? They aren't at work, so I would not judge what they are doing while on strike. As long as they aren't at work, they are STILL proving a point.
You are against people fighting for what they believe is right? Just wondering. Because, I doubt people on the picket lines are doing it for fun. They are doing it to try and get what they feel they deserve.
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Waving signs in public like that, yes. I'm not against blogs, websites, letter writing, etc...If I was against it, I wouldn't have my Shorty Stories site. But I'm not about to wave signs during Fashion Week.
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11-09-2007, 01:41 PM
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Waving signs in public like that, yes.
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Really? Why? Just curious because I really don't understand why you would be "against" that, especially since most of the signs I've seen from this strike and others just say things like "on strike," which isn't offensive or hard on the eyes or anything.
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11-09-2007, 01:44 PM
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Really? Why? Just curious because I really don't understand why you would be "against" that, especially since most of the signs I've seen from this strike and others just say things like "on strike," which isn't offensive or hard on the eyes or anything.
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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11-09-2007, 02:23 PM
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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Oh my.
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11-09-2007, 02:27 PM
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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Yes, the point of a protest is to look nice. Oh wait, no it's not - it's to get a point across. Generally being silent doesn't get your point across. If the writers had simply stopped writing, the networks probably would have just gone into reruns without any mention of a strike, and without an inside source, people wouldn't have known why. That's not getting attention to your cause.
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11-09-2007, 02:31 PM
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Yes, the point of a protest is to look nice. Oh wait, no it's not - it's to get a point across. Generally being silent doesn't get your point across. If the writers had simply stopped writing, the networks probably would have just gone into reruns without any mention of a strike, and without an inside source, people wouldn't have known why. That's not getting attention to your cause.
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People would know. They would have sent out a press release before they stopped writing.
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11-09-2007, 02:34 PM
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People would know. They would have sent out a press release before they stopped writing.
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It absolutely wouldn't have gotten the attention that it's getting now. I don't watch any of the shows that have been affected, and if they had just sent a press release, I probably wouldn't have heard about it (except maybe on GC).
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11-09-2007, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Taualumna
It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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11-09-2007, 04:53 PM
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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Carrying signs and chanting is pretty mild when it comes to protesting. Unions aren’t exactly prominent in Texas but when I think of protesting I think of the Seafarers going down to the Port of Houston to “protest.” i.e. Have a street fight.
Or when the Gulf Coast Shrimpers (non unionized) decided to protest in Seabrook, TX about the Vietnamese Population over shrimping water that families had claims on going back generations. The police department had to put sharpshooters on top of city hall and the surrounding buildings because the Klan decided to get involved.
Like I said carrying signs is about as mild as it gets when it comes to protests. I wouldn’t be to judgmental.
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