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WALT DISNEY PRODUCTION WORKERS NEED YOUR HELP!

Hey fam! The Mouse is refusing to recognize the unionization efforts of its production workers. If you're not familiar with what PCs or PMs do, I'll outline it briefly. The tl;dr is that NO ANIMATION WOULD GET DONE WITHOUT PRODUCTION WORKERS. They are the glue holding together every single production of your very favorite cartoons!

They take notes in all the meetings with the artists.

They make sure the artists are meeting their deadlines (and showing up to the meetings in the first place).

They help us navigate studio servers to find the files we're looking for.

They send us our time cards, and make sure we get paid!

Production workers do all this and more, often for minimum wage. The hardships that they suffer as a result--the long hours, the unpaid overtime, the abuses of power--are horrific.

You'd really think that they'd be compensated fairly for these jobs! Can you imagine trying to live in Los Angeles or New York on minimum wage with a job that definitely won't allow you time to pick up a second or third one??

This has to stop, and you can help.

All that Walt Disney Animation Studio's production workers ask is that you add your name to this petition! That's it.

This isn't some Change.org petition. It's not going to sell your email to spam companies. This is through IATSE (our union)'s website.

TELL DISNEY YOU STAND WITH PRODUCTION WORKERS!!!

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Lake Buena Vista Treehouse Villas - 1980s

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1970s Disney's Contemporary Resort

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Alice in Wonderland concept art by Mary Blair

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Alice in Wonderland concept art by Mary Blair

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Alice in Wonderland concept art by Mary Blair

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I happen to have copies of Walt Disney World: The First Decade and Gardens of the Walt Disney World Resort and I've been exploring them because of a paper I've been writing, and boy oh boy the landscape design of WDW in its first 20-30 years was an AESTHETIC.

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They really should have kept leaning into the swamp aesthetic as far as I'm concerned.

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Disneyland: The Magic Birdbath Kingdom

Walt Disney loved birds. Deeply. Even when he was a young child on the farm in Marceline, MI he’d be known to spend hours birdwatching and cobbling together birdhouses out of stray odds and ends. And when nearing the end of his life he’d routinely ask the Sherman brothers to come into his office and play the song “Feed the Birds” every Friday evening.

So perhaps it’s little wonder that one summer day, while sitting on a park bench in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park (a famous avian resting place near the site of the first Disney Studio) that the thought occurred to him that there should be a place where birds of all kinds could gather together and get away from the harsh concrete sprawl overtaking a young Los Angeles.

The sad concrete bird landing pad in MacArthur Park.

So it was in 1955, Walt opened Disneyland: a fantastic frivolity fabricated specifically for frolicking feathery fowl - ruffling the fabric of a frenetic city. The world’s largest birdbath - divided into small themed areas all for the comfort and convenience of the birds. He even invited humans in as a way to provide constant entertainment and target practice for them! Mandatory donations from tickets help maintain the ability of Disney to continue to offer this aviary for free to all birds forever. Below are some of the best examples of birdbath craftsmanship in the park.

In the early 90s, Splash Mountain was built as the tallest birdbath in the Park - complete with water slide! A new feature installed at that time was tummy ticklers - seen here.

Over in the far west of the park is a nice rocky stream

And here are is the largest birdbath in the park - the rivers of America.

Disney even thought to install butt warmers for the cold Anaheim nights!

Here we see a jacuzzi

Of interest to note: wing shapes are incorporated throughout the architecture all throughout Disneyland - universal symbols birds can recognize from afar.

Here is a spectacular INDOOR birdbath built in the 60s and still one of the most popular. Perhaps that’s because of the burlesque show that’s been running every 10 minutes since then. In recent years there has been some criticism from tropical fowl that the shows mocks their culture.

Which is sad because Disney thought it was extremely important to be as inclusive as possible to all kinds of flyers. Seen here for example is a red buoy some birds are hanging out on - with clever themed devices like this even birds that are afraid of water, such a seagulls, can still join in the fun.

Finally, I’ll leave you with this - recently a birdbath built specifically for the youngsters was refurbished and it looks like the babies are already enjoying its sparkling new waters.

Here’s to the most beautiful, luxurious, and expensive birdbath in the world: Disneyland!

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bringing back this cause the world needs some positivity while the land is in bird-bathing only mode.

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No, you know what sounds to me like a valid reason not to give money to the new Disney Mulan? The fact they filmed it in Xinjiang, working with the local authorities involved in the Uyghur concentration camps.

Not the lack of a talking dragon.