Supporting the Writers
Nov. 18th, 2007 04:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rheasilviaDoris Egan, a well-known and excellent Hollywood writer who blogs as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tightropegirl, thanks fans for their active and overwhelming support and points out a fannish campaign that she thinks can help the striking writers:
Our dream is to have a short strike, but the only way to achieve that is to keep the heat on. Please don't stop. And I'd ask for something else: it's been pushed off the headlines by the announcement negotiations will start again, but United Hollywood has put up a pencil campaign page to make it easier for fans to send pencils to the CEOs of the conglomerates:
http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/pencils2mediamoguls.html
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The WGA has been asking for two things from the AMPTP: Please return to the table. And please make a fair deal. They've agreed to the first one, but without the second, it will be meaningless. That's the message of the pencils: Make a fair deal. It's not going to happen unless they know people are watching.
The pencils are from a sustainable source, and anything left over from the costs will go into the Union Solidarity Fund, which was created to help non-WGA members (other unions, office assistants, etc.) affected by the strike.
Her previous entry is also very interesting reading, if you haven't seen it yet - some more background info on the strike explaining, among other things, why writers have such a hard time asking for an adequate amount of money in return for their hard work.
And here's a link to one of the main fannish initiatives keeping fans informed and supporting the writers:
http://fans4writers.com/
tightropegirl, thanks fans for their active and overwhelming support and points out a fannish campaign that she thinks can help the striking writers:Our dream is to have a short strike, but the only way to achieve that is to keep the heat on. Please don't stop. And I'd ask for something else: it's been pushed off the headlines by the announcement negotiations will start again, but United Hollywood has put up a pencil campaign page to make it easier for fans to send pencils to the CEOs of the conglomerates:
http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/pencils2mediamoguls.html
[...]
The WGA has been asking for two things from the AMPTP: Please return to the table. And please make a fair deal. They've agreed to the first one, but without the second, it will be meaningless. That's the message of the pencils: Make a fair deal. It's not going to happen unless they know people are watching.
The pencils are from a sustainable source, and anything left over from the costs will go into the Union Solidarity Fund, which was created to help non-WGA members (other unions, office assistants, etc.) affected by the strike.
Her previous entry is also very interesting reading, if you haven't seen it yet - some more background info on the strike explaining, among other things, why writers have such a hard time asking for an adequate amount of money in return for their hard work.
And here's a link to one of the main fannish initiatives keeping fans informed and supporting the writers:
http://fans4writers.com/
