Updates for November 14th
Awards Shows Could Suffer in WGA Strike
Ellen DeGeneres
Soap writers won't cross picket line
Journalists Covering The WGA Strike Are A Bunch Of Marxist Wanna-Be Screenwriters
David Letterman pays staff out of his pocket
More reality television planned as WGA strike continues
IATSE's Short takes aim at WGA
NBC's midseason cancellation: TCA
CBS May Join WGA Picket Line
Updates for November 13th!
TV stars join Hollywood writers' strike
CBS faces strike on a second front
U.K. writers in solidarity with strike
WGA Strike and the Death of the Television
'Tis the season to be striking: Broadway stagehands picket
Updates for November 12th!
24 Producer Surnow Takes a Swat at Striking Writers
WGA strike another bad rerun
WGA Strike Enters Second Week
'Nightline' May Gain From WGA Strike
102 people laid off from The Office
Updates for November 11th!
Ellen and Izzy: A Tale from the WGA Strike
Sites
WGA West
WGA East
Deadline Hollywood Daily
United Hollywood
Youtube
Site Supporting the Effort
Livejournal
Facebook
Myspace
Fans4Writers
Sign the Petition and Pledge!
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What?
On November 5, 2007 the Writers Guild of America went on strike.
Why?
The WGA and studio/execs could not reach an agreement on DVD and internet royalties.
How?
(from Livejournal =])
'Mission Statement'
1.
Spread the information! Talk about it on your f-list, or at
work, or over dinner. Spread the the grassroots all over the internet
-- over the message boards and the blogs, over greatest-journal and
insane-journal, over Facebook and MySpace. The most important thing is
keep the numbers growing. We need to remain vociferous and persistent.
2.
Stay informed! This will only work if everyone, from every
fandom takes part and tries to educate people about what is going on. If
you find any articles about new updates with the strike, how it's
effecting television - schedule changes, shows starting reruns - be sure to
post the article (with its source) in our daily "News & Media
Coverage" post.
4.
Stay active within fandom! Now is not the time to jump ship
or go dark -- especially if your show's new or in limbo. We need to
send a message: we will stick it out. We will not abandon our writers.
3.
Push Past The Knee-Jerk Frustration! The Strike doesn't just
effect the "Joss Whedons" and "Alan Balls". It effects the
up-and-coming writers, the freelancers, and the lesser known members of
television writing staffs. It also effects the actors, the directors, the video
and sound editors, the composers, the camera operators, the art and
costume designers, the gaffers AND the carters, the creative consultants,
the drivers, the security guards and hundreds of others jobs you would
not normally associate with "Hollywood". Encourage fans to think of
all the unemployed writers in the Guild whose livelihood depends on a
new contract. This is way more than an 'inconvenience' in our schedules.