WGA Donates 200,000 Pencils To NYC Students

From Broadcastnewsroom.com, 1.16.08
By Linda Moss

Guild Also Disseminates Strike Symbols To Media Chiefs
The Writers Guild of America East, on strike since Nov. 5, Wednesday donated 200,000 pencils to the United Federation of Teachers for use by students in New York City.

Vincent joins the picketers!

UFT president Randi Weingarten accepted the donation at his headquarters and spoke, as the pencils were delivered by WGAE president Michael Winship and striking writers.

The pencils were purchased as part of the Pencils 2 Media Moguls effort, which encouraged fans of TV shows to purchase pencils to send to the media models who head the six companies that dominate the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

....Earlier in the day Wednesday, the WGAE held a large-scale picket outside the One Life To Live Studios on West 66 Street off of Central Park West. More than 250 striking WGAE members took part in the demonstration outside the ABC Studios, with John Leguizamo and Vincent D’Onofrio joining the line. Many actors from One Life To Live also stopped by and demonstrated their support, including David Frumero, John Brotherton and Tika Sumpter. More

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Also
In "PipeDream", 2.1.08
School’s back, where’s my TV?
By Chris Harnick, Associate Release Editor

About 60 people stood behind police barricades outside of ABC Studios carrying picket signs on a cloudy January day last month. The crowd kept the noise to chatter.

It seems for the first time, the Writers Guild of America was without words.

You don’t know the names of the writers who have been on strike since November 2007, but you might recognize their faces from awards shows. About two weeks ago on Jan. 16, the Guild was striking over their dispute for more residuals from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, but reports indicate informal talks between the two groups are going extremely well.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess have been working together as executive producers and writers on projects like “Northern Exposure” and “The Sopranos” since 1988. They had a development deal in place with CBS. But all that changed when the WGA began striking in early November 2007 in an attempt to get more residuals from DVD sales and a cut of the burgeoning Internet market. more

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