Invitation to produce art to help people in the TV industry
Inviting everyone to check out and consider volunteering creative talent for strike_support to benefit union and non-union writers and creative techs and other support staff out of work due to the WGA strike. How it works is that people offer to make icons or sketches or write short fiction or poetry as a gift for someone in exchange for that person's donating
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Nobody's holding a gun to anyone's head and making them be a writer.
This is BS.
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Cool, thanks for your comments! Glad to have sparked discussion and that my post got noticed ;)
Our art auction is meant in large part to support the nonunion support staff, the ordinary people without paychecks. People such as admins, clerks, custodial staff who just need to make a living and Hollywood is the biggest game in town. We give the strike_support artists and donors a choice of which organization or person to which to make a donation, and I'm personally encouraging donations to support staff who are just barely making it. There are plenty of WGA people who are making good money, but also plenty who just got one gig back in the day and have one or two or three day-jobs now and depend on the residual payments to live.
Thanks for your comment - lets me know I should make some things clearer in the advertising.
Happy New Year! Wishing you a year full of creative potential and infinite possibilities.
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But my original interesting point in mind was...the writers are still getting paid. I know, I know...I speak the truth and will now be branded as a shill for the networks by ignorant people who don't know me. As I am in full support of the writers, these ignorant people are free to think what they like, as it won't change the truth of the matter.
And that truth is the writers are still getting checks. It is the almost forgotten "other support staff", as barely mentioned, who are getting shafted. These are the people that live like the vast majority of America. They go in, work (at least) 8 hours a day, and live one paycheck away from destitution. THEY are the ones who are no longer getting paychecks.
As for charity for the actors...how about charity for ME? I broke a rib laughing so hard at that.
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Our art auction is meant in large part to support the nonunion support staff, the ordinary people without paychecks. We give the artists and donors a choice of which organization or person to which to make a donation, and I'm personally encouraging donations to support staff who are just barely making it. There are plenty of WGA people who are making good money, but also plenty who just got one gig back in the day and have one or two or three day-jobs now and depend on the residual payments to live.
Thanks for your comment - lets me know I should make some things clearer in the advertising.
Happy New Year! Wishing you a year full of creative potential and infinite possibilities.
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Our art auction is meant in large part to support the nonunion support staff, the ordinary people without paychecks or union affiliation. People such as admins, clerks, custodial staff, etc who just want to make a living and Hollywood is the biggest game in town.
In strike_support we give the artists and donors a choice of which organization or person to which to make a donation, and I'm personally encouraging donations to support staff who are just barely making it. There are plenty of WGA people who are making good money, but also plenty who just got one gig back in the day and have one or two or three day-jobs now and depend on the residual payments to live.
Thanks for your comment - lets me know I should make some things clearer in the advertising.
Happy New Year! Wishing you a year full of creative potential and infinite possibilities.
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