Thanks for this, Steven. I am mulling over a column for OC Weekly addressing a similar concern, and now I will just shamelessly plagiarize yours. Haha.
Sorry to bring this around to the plight of 99…but it seems everyone in the theater, and within our Union, are reeling right now. Everyone also seems to agree that theater, both for us all individually as artists, and for our communities as a whole, is very important. So, in this dark time when we’re all afraid and struggling to find ways to stay sane, connected and hopeful, I plead with our Union leaders to not take away our art, our community and our homes and such a vital place for us to help reach our communities with messages of hope, tolerance and solidarity.
Steven, maybe you’re right – yet there are black working class people and brown working class people who have had the same issues and same complaints for hundreds of years, but instead poor black and brown people been either ignored or marginalized, or told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Now, when it’s a growing white working class having problems finding jobs, healthcare, becoming addicted to heroin, etc., it’s suddenly a national emergency and something must be done. It’s now the white working class that must be paid attention to, when every other community has been ignored. It’s rich – unsurprising, but rich.
Thanks for this, Steven. I am mulling over a column for OC Weekly addressing a similar concern, and now I will just shamelessly plagiarize yours. Haha.
Sorry to bring this around to the plight of 99…but it seems everyone in the theater, and within our Union, are reeling right now. Everyone also seems to agree that theater, both for us all individually as artists, and for our communities as a whole, is very important. So, in this dark time when we’re all afraid and struggling to find ways to stay sane, connected and hopeful, I plead with our Union leaders to not take away our art, our community and our homes and such a vital place for us to help reach our communities with messages of hope, tolerance and solidarity.
Steven, maybe you’re right – yet there are black working class people and brown working class people who have had the same issues and same complaints for hundreds of years, but instead poor black and brown people been either ignored or marginalized, or told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Now, when it’s a growing white working class having problems finding jobs, healthcare, becoming addicted to heroin, etc., it’s suddenly a national emergency and something must be done. It’s now the white working class that must be paid attention to, when every other community has been ignored. It’s rich – unsurprising, but rich.