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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 : With negotiations on hold until January, striking members of the Writers Guild continue to gain support across the industry and the country. They also are trying a few new ideas in their effort to gain a fair share of the expected revenues from new media such as the Internet. After negotiators for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) stalked out of talks last week, writers announced they plan to begin negotiations with individual produ...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 : Allan Bérubé, the gay historian who gave us “Coming Out Under Fire,” the definitive tome about queers in the military, died December 11 in upstate New York from complications due to stomach ulcers. He was 61. The former San Francisco resident was a founder of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Historical Society as well as a well-known and respected chronicler of the queer working-class....

Saturday, December 15, 2007 :The release Thursday of the so-called Mitchell report on the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in professional baseball has unleashed a torrent of media scandal-mongering and hypocrisy. Most American newspapers gave the report banner headlines. Its author, former US senator, federal prosecutor and special envoy to Northern Ireland George Mitchell, had stressed in the report that, while there had been a “great deal of speculation” over which pla...

Friday, December 14, 2007 :Thursday is being described by some as "one of the darkest days in baseball history" following the publication of an official Major League Baseball report on the widespread use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in the sport. Former Senator George Mitchell, who headed the 20-month investigation, estimated hundreds of thousands of high school students currently use steroids. We speak with sportswriter Dave Zirin about "Absolving the Owners" and a mother whos...

Friday, December 14, 2007 :Last Friday’s walkout by the television and movie producers from negotiations with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) begins to reveal the profound social, political and cultural issues contained in the strike by film and television writers, now in its sixth week. The strategy of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) is to isolate and demoralize the striking writers....

Friday, December 14, 2007 : Those who think it is only a matter of time before striking screenwriters cave in to the Hollywood producers are not getting what this strike, now supported by two-thirds of the public, is all about. This point was made clear Dec. 7 when talks between the writers and producers broke down. The strike was expected to be a fight over pay formulas....

Monday, December 10, 2007 : Hollywood producers walked away from the bargaining table late Friday as negotiators for the Writers Guild of America were preparing a counteroffer to the producers' demand that the writers withdraw half a dozen critical proposals....

Monday, December 10, 2007 :The negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents over 350 film production companies and studios, and the 12,000-strong Writers Guild of America (WGA), on strike for five weeks, came to an abrupt halt Friday evening. The end of the talks, which had been going on for seven days, came when AMPTP chief negotiator Nick Counter entered the room at the hotel where the union was discussing its own counterproposal to ...

Thursday, December 6, 2007 :Click here to download this article as a leaflet. The strike by more than 10,000 US film and television writers has now entered its second month. The writers walked out November 5—after 90 percent of those voting authorized a strike on both coasts—in support of a number of demands, above all, decent compensation for the use of their material on the Internet and other new media....