“Visitors to the monster museum will learn what World Children’s Land wants them to learn. When the cockroaches announce that Shukra and Mamagon are excellent ideas, and plan to include them among the Monster Island detainees in the museum, they reveal their preference for monsters with easy-to-package, superficial relevance. Lacking ambiguity, Shukra and Mamagon are less politically threatening than something like Godzilla. Toho makes money by selling the likeness of a character whose popularity was established in movies that often criticized the profit motive. Godzilla’s expressive power as a symbolic figure is at odds with his value as a commercial icon. Reduced to a mere commodity, Godzilla no longer raises uncomfortable questions.”
— David Kalat on the hidden depths of Godzilla vs. Gigan (via astoundingbeyondbelief)
G/O Media group, after multiple and well-documented decisions designed to break both the union and the employees there, have declined to renew the GMG Union contract. Management simply refused to negotiate the now-expired contract with the union, and the GMGUnion has no choice but to strike.
This isn’t a case of management making an insulting low-ball offer - they simply just avoided it, and have absolutely brought this about directly.
Whether or not you agree with any of the editorial viewpoints at the various sites GMGUnion members work at, everyone deserves fair wages, benefits, a safe and inclusive workplace, and comprehensive health care.
Please show your solidarity by not visiting Gizmodo, Kotaku, The Root, Jezebel, Lifehacker, or any of the other G/O sites. And if you can, think about donating to their strike fund.
