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Lights! Camera! Collective Action!

The Writers Guild of America strikes to secure a piece of the pie in the Digital Age

By David Moberg

Starting on Nov. 5, 2007, America’s television and movie writers left their solitary desks for the collective sidewalks of Los Angeles and New York, carrying placards ranging from the prosaic (“Writers Guild of America: On Strike”) to the quirky (“They Wrong: We Write”). Actors, like Alec Baldwin, joined the pickets demanding a fair contract from entertainment producers for the Internet era.… return to article

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