Skip to main content

Please contribute to help us to chart a path forward!

Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? The biggest danger today: a vengeful would-be dictator and a cultist Christian nationalist movement that are reaching for absolute power in our country. Please help us to inform, to mobilize and to inspire the forces of multi-racial, radical, inclusive democracy to defeat this threat in 2024.

To Live and Strike in Hollywood

Gary Phillips Stansbury Forum
Writer Gary Phillips traces the history of the Writers Guild, the militancy of Hollywood unions, beginning with the writers, the difference between the writers and actors, and why the actors remain on strike.

books

Hollywood Is a Union Town, but the History Is Complicated

Steven Wishnia The Indypendent
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s — but to achieve that, workers had to overcome “the iron fist of the moguls” and organized crime, says historian Gerald Horne

labor

Why the Hollywood Strike Matters to All of Us

Ethan Marcotte WBUR cognoscenti
photo of strikers holding on strike signs from SAG-AFTRA and WGAstrike signs ing These two unions are taking the threats of AI seriously — and the rest of us should, too. Now’s the time to form a union with your coworkers, and discuss what protections you’ll need to face this moment.

Tidbits – July 27, 2023 – Reader Comments: Climate Disaster-Record Heat Wave; Oppenheimer, Nuclear War Danger-Still; SAG/AFTRA & WGA Strikes; Israel; Remembering Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz; Forgotten History of March for Jobs and Freedom; More…

Portside
Reader Comments: Climate Disaster-Record Heat Wave; Oppenheimer, Nuclear War Danger-Still; SAG/AFTRA & WGA Strikes; Israel; Sinead O'Connor; Remembering Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz; Forgotten History of March for Jobs and Freedom; more...
Subscribe to WGA Writers Strike