International support for striking US writers. Pickets in Los Angeles speak to WSWS

In one of numerous videos available online http://www.youtube.com/writersdayofsupport, a writer in Dublin explained: “We’re very proud to be supporting our American colleagues because they’re fighting not only about the four cents on the DVD or even residuals on new media, they’re fighting in order to put a value on their creativity, on their work and on the authorship of their stories. And they’re fighting to prevent the conglomerates negating that value, and they’re fighting to have just a share of the profits.... So fight the good fight!”

A writer in Paris remarked that he supported the American strikers “because basically the same issues are involved in the States as they are in Europe. The fight of the American writers is our fight too.”

Writers Guild members held their own international solidarity day event at NBC in Burbank, California. Quoted by the WGA web site, screenwriter and French native Jean-Yves Pitoun commented: “There were French demonstrations in support of the writers today in front of the Eiffel tower. Europeans are very carefully watching the writers, actors and directors in the US because Rupert Murdoch is everywhere. Our negotiations with him here will have consequences for writers in Europe.”