I don’t think I’ve posted about it here, but for the past couple of months I’ve been involved with a group of organizers from the Freelance Solidarity Project in developing ways we as culture writers, freelance or otherwise, can show solidarity with the striking workers of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. Their fight is our fight!
To that end, we developed a pledge people can publicly sign, agreeing to support the strikes in various ways through our writing. We also came up with a nice simple statement anyone can slap into any piece they write: “This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the [series/movie/etc] being covered here wouldn’t exist.“
If you’re in the position to do so — this includes podcasters, folks who write about TV and movies just for fun, you name it — please sign the pledge and start using the statement. Power to the writers, power to the actors, solidarity forever!
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