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Striking Writers Back at Table Wednesday, December 5, 2007 : Christopher Meloni, star of NBC's "Law and Order: SVU" joined the striking writers on the picket line in New York last week. As negotiators for striking writers and TV and movie producers return to the bargaining table today, the writers are reaffirming their determination to keep talking until they gain a fair contract....
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2007 6:53am PST
Writers' strike in fifth week: the political discussion continues Wednesday, December 5, 2007 :Striking film and television writers were back on the picket line Monday as the fifth week of their strike against the studios and networks began. After a great deal of fanfare last week, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) came up with an offer November 29 that Writers Guild of America presidents Patric Verrone (West) and Michael Winship (East) termed “a massive rollback.” On the crucial issue of residuals for Internet streaming of tel...
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2007 6:52am PST
Interview with a striking writer: a candid conversation about US television Tuesday, December 4, 2007 : American television presents itself as an immense and often painful contradiction. The use of a technology with the most extraordinary potential to reach masses of people in the privacy of their homes with information, amusement and spectacle is monopolized by a small number of transnational corporations....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:09am PST
Beyond the Green Zone; excerpt of introduction at Foreign Policy in Focus Tuesday, December 4, 2007 :The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books, 2007)....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:08am PST
The politicization of the writers' struggle: the New York Times and an interview with striker David Wyatt Monday, December 3, 2007 :The fourth week of the film and television writers’ strike drew to a close with an insulting offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and its initial rejection by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). The proposal makes clear that the big corporations are determined to quash the writers’ legitimate requests and create a precedent for upcoming struggles, possibly against actors and directors as their contracts expire in the next six mon...
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2007 7:25am PST
After four weeks: studios and networks offer striking writers a "massive rollback" Saturday, December 1, 2007 :The new contract proposal made Thursday by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to striking film and television writers is insulting and provocative. It makes clear that the giant studios and networks are intent on inflicting a major defeat on the writers, as part of an effort to cut costs and rationalize the industry....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 11:46am PST
International support for striking US writers. Pickets in Los Angeles speak to WSWS Saturday, December 1, 2007 :On November 28, in an unprecedented action, writers in nine countries held demonstrations and rallies in support of striking film and television writers in the US. In Berlin more than one hundred writers marched at the Brandenburg Gate. In Toronto and Montreal, hundreds of writers marched. Supporting writers also demonstrated in Paris, Amsterdam, London, Sydney, Auckland, Dublin, Madrid and Mexico....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 11:44am PST
Fans back writers in week 4 of strike Friday, November 30, 2007 : Ken BeSaw/PWW NEW YORK — A thousand striking writers and their backers rallied in Washington Square Park here Nov. 27 to kick off the fourth week of a strike by the Writers Guild of America against an array of U.S. media conglomerates. The first strike by Hollywood writers on both coasts in 20 years began Nov....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 8:08am PST
Broadway stagehands return to work after union accepts concessions Friday, November 30, 2007 :The 19-day strike by Broadway stagehands ended after negotiators between their union—IATSE Local 1—and the owners and producers reached an agreement late Wednesday night on a tentative settlement that includes significant attacks on work rules and jobs for the approximately 350 workers employed at the major theaters....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 8:07am PST
Flicker Bits: Redacted – Military Madness; The Man in the Chair – A Rarity, Captivating Friday, November 30, 2007 : REDACTED – GUTSY, COMPLEX Bill O’Reilly hates this movie. He has said that it will put our troops in danger. He jumps up and down like Rumplestiltskin almost nightly on his T.V. show about what he calls… "This disgusting piece of liberal propaganda.” Of course, he never mentions his disgusting pieces of regressive propaganda....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 7:52am PST
Striking writers are determined, wary as contract negotiations restart Wednesday, November 28, 2007 :Negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) resumed November 26, more than three weeks after talks between the two sides broke down. Some 12,000 WGA members on both coasts walked out November 5, four days after the expiration of their contract with the Alliance members....
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 8:06am PST
New Films from South Lebanon The anarchist film collective "a-films" announces three new videos from South Lebanon. In October 2007, a-films did video workshops in Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp and the village of Siddiqine....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 11:30am PST
BOOK REVIEW: The Black Panther is an African Cat--Poems of Exploration and Testimony Black Panther Mondo we Langa, formerly David Rice, has been behind bars for 37 years, convicted for the murder of an Omaha police officer. Langa has steadfastly maintained his innocence in the bombing ambush of patrolman Larry Minard in August 1970 and post-trial revelations of contradictory police testimony and withheld evidence suggest the prison poet was indeed framed for the crime....
Posted: Fri, Nov 23, 2007 5:39pm PST
GREY ANARCHY: THE STORY OF THE CASCADIAN ANARCHISTS AND THE BATTLE FOR OLYMPIA This is all fiction....
Posted: Fri, Nov 23, 2007 2:03am PST
Writers Strike Enters Third Week in Divide Over Online Content Wednesday, November 21, 2007 :
The strike has been felt across the entertainment industry, putting daily talk shows, sitcoms and dramas on hiatus due to a lack of scripts. The Writers Guild of America has called the strike over paying writers for online reruns and original work written for the Internet. We speak with WGA-East President Michael Winship....
Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2007 12:03pm PST
“What Would Jesus Buy?”: As Holiday Buying Frenzy Begins, New Film Tracks Anti-Consumerism Gospel of Reverend Billy Wednesday, November 21, 2007 :
The holiday shopping season kicks off this week with Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. The new documentary “What Would Jesus Buy?” follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping gospel choir on a cross-country tour, preaching their message in such destinations as the Mall of America, Wal-mart headquarters, Starbucks and Disneyland. We speak to Rev. Billy, and the film’s producer Morgan Spurlock, who gained fame with his documentary “...
Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2007 12:02pm PST
Stagehands Get Lots of Support for Broadway Strike Wednesday, November 21, 2007 : The Thanksgiving holiday is a time for families and friends to come together and the striking stagehands on Broadway are finding they have lots of friends in the union movement. Contract negotiations are set to resume after the Thanksgiving holiday. After months of unsuccessful negotiations, the members of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 1 were forced out on strike Nov....
Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2007 6:35am PST
CBS News Writers May Be Next on Picket Line Wednesday, November 21, 2007 : CBS News writers authorized their union, the Writers Guild of America, to call a national strike. Some 500 CBS News television and radio writers have been working under an expired contract since April 2005. Broadcast writers across the nation have been on strike since Nov. 5, seeking a contract that includes a formula for fair compensation for their work when it is broadcast on the Internet, downloaded to iPods or cell phones or distributed via DVD....
Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2007 6:35am PST
Broadway remains dark another week after strike talks break down Wednesday, November 21, 2007 :The strike that has shut the bulk of New York’s theaters will continue at least through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend—Broadway’s second busiest season of the year—after talks between the stagehands union and the theater owners and producers broke down on Sunday night. The two sides held two days of talks over the weekend as the strike by International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 1—the first in its 120-year history—entered its second...
Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2007 6:28am PST
"We Ask the World Not to Help Us" - Acclaimed Lebanese Composer, Singer Marcel Khalife on U.S. interference in Lebanon, War, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 :
Marcel Khalife - world-renowned Lebanese composer, singer and oud player - joins us in our firehouse studio for an extended conversation on war, censorship, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, U.S. interference in his country and much more. Khalife is a cultural icon of the Arab world and is sometimes referred to as the Bob Dylan of Lebanon. He has consistently opposed war, performed in bombed-out buildings during the Lebanese civil war, and passionately defended...
Posted: Tue, Nov 20, 2007 7:15am PST
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