Newsies lyrics/lines that hit different (Add yours)

“So the world says no! Well the kids do, too! Try to walk all over us, we’ll stomp all over you!” -The World Will Know

“Courage cannot erase our fear. Courage is when we face our fear.” -Seize the Day

“Why should you spend your whole live livin’ trapped where there ain’t no future, even at 17?” -Santa Fe

“You can’t undo the past so just move on and stay on track.” -Watch What Happens (reprise)

“Once and for all we won’t carry no banners that don’t spell freedom!” -Once and for All

“Write it in ink or in blood it’s the same either way (and the nod from Bill)” -Once and for All (from: Katherinebly)

I will say I get the vibe that a lot of peoples interest and support for strikers is a bit too much for a vicarious ‘burn it down’ thrill, rather than for the actual goals of a strike.

Like UPS has agreed to come back to the table and it is very possible they will concede to Union demands and avert a strike. And if that happens (so long as the union does not make concessions on its key demands) it’s a good thing. It’s a victory for the laborers. It is the same ultimate conclusion that a strike would intend to produce except without the workers having to go on (not so great) strike pay for a week or two.

also

please pay attention to who gets a strike averting offer and who doesn’t. that’s not about how good that union’s negotiators are. it’s about how bad the bosses will immediately look if a strike happens.

if ups teamsters go on strike, they’re delivering a major blow to consumerism.people will feel it right away.

we’re not going to see the consequences of WGA & SAG-AFTRA for months, and it won’t be as dramatic as “in three days, riots broke out over city wide shortages of toilet paper.” tv will get shittier, but we’re already used to unscripted tv. there are big backlogs of stuff to watch. lots of big budget movies are already in the can. the deleterious effect on us will be hard to see for a long while.

also, you’re not even safe if you win. the harper collins union went on strike, and they reached an agreement, and now a lot of them don’t have jobs because HC closed a successful imprint where lots of those striking employees worked, and i don’t think anyone but the most insider baseball people realized that, even though starbucks has closed down locations with union membership even if that store was highly profitable more than once.

corporate oligarchs settling up fast with supply chain people instead of playing chicken with them is the no brainer move. now they can get ignorant suckers to say, “they offered UPS a fair deal, [insert union here] is just being selfish and refusing to negotiate.”

so it’s not a burn it down thrill for me. and maybe it’s not for you either, person who is reading this who gave a little fist pump every time you heard a strike vote has been authorized. maybe you, like me, felt hopeful that solidarity would turn this hellscape around and were prepared to suffer disruptions to see it done.

please don’t be ashamed of that.

David is still seizing the day, even 30 years after Newsies. 🥹

May 18, 2023 - Disney Studios picket line during the WGA strike.

I can't find the right way to describe how/why I love Elmer so much this image is the closest I can possibly get to explaining my truest opinion of him

Jack knows he’s a dreamer, but he’s not naive. The world gets a little rougher, a little meaner each day, and he refuses to let himself get rougher or meaner with it.

I am so disgusted and appalled at everyone involved in the uk production of newsies’ decision to add crosses to the costumes of so many characters. Even the David Nasaw book Children of the City: At Work and at Play, now credited for inspiring newsies only after he had to sue for plagiarism, talks about how at least 40% of the real life newsies were Jewish! (We have the NYC census records to prove it, and at that it’s only counting those who bothered to complete it). We know for a fact the real Crutch Morris was.

This is just another step in how every production so far has been more and more whitewashed yet. I’m still furious about Mush. I wish the team that made these decisions would finally face the backlash they deserve.

final fansie night audio anyone??

feel free to share with anyone who wants it!!

modern crutchie makes the same joke every year about how he grows in power every day leading up to the transition between lgbt pride month (june) and disabled pride month (july).

right as midnight hits between the 30th and the 1st, he raises his arms to the sky like he’s getting powers in an anime and insists for that exact moment he is unstoppable. and then as july crawls on he puts on the oscar-worthy performance of his powers waning, his body weakening, until july 31st hits and he bids his goodbyes to everyone in a melodramatic croak, faking feeble.

nobody thinks it’s as funny as he does. he still does it every year.

yk that one part in carryin the banner? ya wanted to draw them as this

(ref. by mellon_soup on pinterest)

should i colour this???

"One for all, and all for one!"

124 years ago today, the newsies of New York started their strike against The World and The Journal!! To celebrate I made my own version of the front page picture<33

Here's which newsie is which!

it’s the 124th anniversary of the strike 📰🗞️✨

call me controversial but mayhaps the reason for everyone going no homo to the max on jackcrutchie despite them promising to run away together, also known as the gayest thing one can do, is a little touch of ableism