The Writers Guild of America East released a statement on Monday calling for the AFL-CIO to sever ties with the International Union of Police Associations, a major police union, in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
In its statement, the guild said that including police unions as part of its coalition is incompatible with the AFL-CIO’s goals: “To vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms.” Going further, the guild said the Iupa’s activities are “consistently directed toward the achievement of the program or purposes of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, terrorism and other forces that suppress individual liberties and freedom of association and oppose the basic principles of free and democratic trade unionism.”
“As long as police unions continue to wield their collective bargaining power as a cudgel, preventing reforms and accountability, no one is safe,” the guild said.
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In its statement, the guild said that including police unions as part of its coalition is incompatible with the AFL-CIO’s goals: “To vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms.” Going further, the guild said the Iupa’s activities are “consistently directed toward the achievement of the program or purposes of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, terrorism and other forces that suppress individual liberties and freedom of association and oppose the basic principles of free and democratic trade unionism.”
“As long as police unions continue to wield their collective bargaining power as a cudgel, preventing reforms and accountability, no one is safe,” the guild said.
Also Read: Spectrum Delays...
- 6/8/2020
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Today we were provided with an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from Warner Home Video and Raw Feed's Otis, which arrives on DVD June 10 and Blu-ray October 10. Inside you can take a look at the new horror comedy that features the insane casting of Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollack, Jere Burns, Tarah Paige, Lawrence Hilton-Jacob, Jamie McBride, K.T. Thangavelu, Gary Kraus and Angelo Custino. The authorities are baffled. A half-a-dozen strikingly beautiful teenage girls have disappeared, only to be discovered a month later -- murdered and mutilated almost beyond recognition. When a new victim, 16-year-old high school cheerleader Riley Lawson (Ashlee Johnson), finds herself trapped and tortured in a basement prison by the psychopath Otis (Bostin Christopher), she resolves to do Whatever she has to in order to stay alive.
- 6/7/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Earlier this month David Harley and Tex Massacre attended the world premiere of Warner Raw Feed's Otis (review) at the Sxsw Film Festival in Austin, Tx. After attending the screening they interviewed Director Tony Krantz and Writer Erik Jendresen about the horror-comedy that seems to be getting a lot of good buzz around the net. You can read the exclusive one-on-one interview by clicking here. The film arrives unrated on DVD June 10. Click the title above for more info on the film, which stars Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollack, Jere Burns, Tarah Paige, Lawrence Hilton-Jacob, Jamie McBride, K.T. Thangavelu, Gary Kraus and Angelo Custino.
- 3/24/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
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