My teachers fuckin rock! WGA SAN FRANCISCO PROTEST - Friday-Sunday!
Here’s the press release! Come and show your support for free speech!
SAN FRANCISCO’S “UNION SQUARE” TO HOST
STRIKING WRITERS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Bay Area writers, comedians, actors, musicians and fans will rally and picket The Disney Store at Union Square (400 Post Street) from Friday, December 14th – Sunday, December 16th in support of the Writers Guild of America strike.
Picket times are Friday 10AM-8PM; Saturday 10AM-7PM; Sunday 11AM-6PM.
Friday’s picketing writers will include many of the Oscar®- Emmy®- and Golden Globe-winning members of the WGA who have made the Bay Area their home, as well as surprise celebrity guests to be announced.
The event will support the Writers Guild of America strike that began on November 5, 2007. Approximately 10,500 members of the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW), who are screenwriters and television writers, are on strike. The key issue in the negotiations is new media. Writers want fair compensation for their work whenever and wherever it is used, including Internet channels, downloads such as iTunes, webisodes and mobisodes on mobile phones.
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of this country’s most renowned writers and filmmakers, and the economic impact of this strike is devastating to every film- and television-making community in the country. The purpose of this event is to raise public awareness and to hasten a positive outcome to the negotiations with the AMPTP.
The Writers Guild members living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area believe that it is in everyone’s best interest to promote fair and balanced negotiations and to let the public know that not only is our filmmaking community a celebrated and vibrant one, but it is an active one with pure purpose and impeccable intent.
BAY AREA WRITERS GUILD MEMBERS HAVE WRITTEN:
FILMS INCLUDING
Apocalypse Now… Arlington Road… Batman… Batman Returns… *batteries not included… Blade Runner… Blood and Chocolate… The Brothers Grimm… Bram Stoker’s Dracula… Broken Arrow… Buddy Boy… The Candidate… Cherish… The Conversation… Corvette Summer… The Cotton Club… The Crow… The Darwin Awards… Desert Bloom… Dragonslayer… Dream with the Fishes… Eat a Bowl of Tea… Endless Love… Excellent Cadavers… Friday the 13th… Gardens of Stone… Ghost Ship… The Godfather… The Godfather II… The Godfather III… Goonies… The Great Gatsby… Gremlins… Halfway Decent… Havana… Henry & June… Hero… Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade… Is Paris Burning?… Ladyhawke…… The Last Castle… Leviathan… Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland… Live!… Lola’s One Night Stand… MacArthur… A Man Apart… Matinee… Meet the Applegates… Mimic… Mission to Mars… Monkeybone… Nanking… Never Cry Wolf… Oliver’s Story… One from the Heart… The Outlaw Josey Wales… Patton… Peggy Sue Got Married… Pet Semetary II… Pontiac Moon… Prefontaine… Raiders of the Lost Ark… The Rainmaker… Raise Your Voice… Reindeer Games… The Right Stuff… The Ring… The Ring Two… Rising Sun… Rumble Fish… See Spot Run… The Skeleton Key… So Long, Blue Boy… Soldier… Speed… A Stranger is Watching… Sublime… The Sugarland Express… Tucker: The Man and His Dream… Twelve Monkeys… Twice Upon a Time… The Unbearable Lightness of Being… Unforgiven… Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey… A Walk in the Park… The Wanderers… Warning Sign… Who’ll Stop the Rain… Youth Without Youth…
TELEVISION INCLUDING
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr…. All My Children… As the World Turns… Band of Brothers… Barney Miller… Beverly Hills, 90210… The Big Easy… The Bold and the Beautiful… Boomtown… Caesar… Chicago Hope… CHIPS… A Christmas Without Snow… Dallas… Designing Women… The Doctors… Falcon Crest… Fame… Farewell to Manzanar… Fish… Flamingo Road… Freddy’s Nightmares… From the Earth to the Moon… General Hospital… Get Smart… Guiding Light… Growing Pains… Girlfriends… Happy Days… Here’s Lucy… Hotel… Ice Bound… John from Cincinnati… Just Cause… Kingpin… Kojak… L.A. Law… Laugh-In… Law & Order: Crime & Punishment… The Love Connection… Love Boat… Magnum, P.I…. M.A.N.T.I.S…. The Mary Tyler Moore Show… M*A*S*H… Masters of Horror… Matlock… Max Headroom… Monster Makers… One Life to Live… The Paper Chase…The Partridge Family… Peyton Place… Prison Break… Quantum Leap… Quincy M.E…. Raines… Rasputin… Remington Steele… Room 222… Santa Barbara… The Sentinel… Skate… Star Trek: Deep Space Nine… Street Justice… Valerie… Wedding Daze… Wicked Wicked Games…
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BACKGROUND ON THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA STRIKE
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) are labor unions representing writers in motion pictures, broadcast, cable, news, and new media. The WGAE and WGAW went on strike on November 5, 2007 when talks broke down after the Guild was unable to reach agreement on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Approximately 10,500 television and screen writers are on strike. Negotiations with the AMPTP, which represents approximately 300 companies and studios, resumed after Thanksgiving but broke down again on December 7th. The last Writers Guild strike was in 1988 and lasted 22 weeks.