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Film School Rejects: WGA Strike: Support the Writers, Sign a Petition

  • bringtvback · 2 years ago
    Check out:

    bringtvback.blogspot.com

    We created a site to publicize a letter writing campaign that will really target the offending CEOs.

    It contains all the addresses of the CEOs who REALLY call the shots, has a sample letter and breaks down WHICH CEO is responsible for almost every show, so you can make the letters specific to your favorite shows.

    Please spread the word!
  • vyvial · 2 years ago
    WHere do I stand? With the majority of other film makers who are being hurt by this strike.

    It's the only strike in the world where you have millionaires walking the picket line. The WGA is putting thousands of my co-workers out of work for the holidays and television shows that don't have the best of ratings are being shut down for good.

    IATSE union members, the middle-class workers who actually make the movies and tv shows, are being put out of work so that the upper-class union can get some more residuals that we have never and will never receive. That's why the WGA is getting no support.

    Families are going on unemployment or even having to move away from their homes so that a privileged few can get "four more cents".

    Dave Young, the writers' chief "negotiator" is very inexperienced and I believe purposely let the talks fall apart. He told the LA Times that he was being treated like "a rock star" at the pickets and rallies. This is the person that is supposed to help end this strike?

    It's a joke.
  • Marc · 1 year ago
    So if I invite a product like writers who invite new scripts and idea....then the product sells and makes an killing on the consumer market. Do I have the right to ask for some of the profit that the product made. The answer is no....and the writers should not ask for compensation do to the fact that they get paid for what they are doing. If everyone's brain thinks like the writers...then the whole world will be in a financial mess. Writers are greedy who needs to step back and look at what they are doing to themselves and others. Don't ask for more money when you are just sitting on your ass. Work for it......wait a minute....you do work for it and get paid so what the fuck are you complaining about. Next time if I invent a new writing program.....and it sells and is a sucess....then I will strike and demand more money for my product. Think about it....writers and others who suport them.