It’s easy to sit and worry that the show you know and love might be changed forever. For so many of them, they struggle to pay rent, they don’t always have health insurance, and the idea of the “residual” check to help keep them afloat is gone because of streaming services. Secondly, if you want to support those shows and those who create them, you can! Depending on your location, we as viewers can join the picket line and make it clear that the lack of resources these writers are facing is not okay.
This is on the studios who refuse to listen to the reasonable demands from the writers who bring us the characters we know and love. First and foremost, it’s important to note that if you’re worried about the shows you love, that’s okay! But it’s not the writers’ fault. And now a similar conversation is happening surrounding the WGA writers’ strike. For so many of us, we were falling in love with Ned the Piemaker on Pushing Daisies and just really enjoying Friday Night Lights’ Landry not killing anyone before the studios’ lack of listening to its writers took those things from us. Now Denver teachers have voted by 93% for strike action, with Oakland teachers already staging unofficial walkouts … US Labor history expert GEORGE BINETTE will be talking about the background and ramifications post-LA.It’s not hard to remember what the early ’00s writer strike did to television. The power and militancy of the strike, fully supported by parents, has forced a historic victory that is sending shockwaves throughout the country. For six days, 33,000 teachers were out on strike, with demos of 50,000 daily.
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PLUS the huge teachers strike in Los Angeles against charter schools, their version of academies. Strikes have already won a significant first victory by seeing off academy sponsors UST just before Xmas come and talk about how we can build support for the next phase of action and increase the struggle against academies and privatisation generally. Short films and speakers from the brilliant staff and parents campaign at John Roan School in Greenwich against forced academisation. Films from Act IV and V in Paris, plus an incredible school student strike plus photo slideshow from Act X.Ģ) Education: Strikes against privatisation We also found an enormous student movement, completely ignored in the media here and being led for the first time in France’s history by working-class students from the banlieues.
Reel News went to Paris and found the opposite is true a movement rapidly shifting to the left, with demands for reducing the inequality between rich and poor, defending public services, real solutions to climate change and more decision making for the people rather than politicians. Mainstream media here have been quick to accept President Macron’s portrayal of the yellow vests as a violent, far-right movement against action on climate change. Our regular bimonthly night in Brixton, with films and discussion on current struggles – and what an exciting start to the year we’ve got.ġ) France: Yellow vests – the new anti-austerity movement?
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Local video activists Reel News are continuing their bi-monthly free film night at the Effra Social in Brixton, and tomorrow night they have an interesting selection of films, along with speakers.
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