Hollywood
A residual isn't a handout or an allowance or Paris Hilton's trust fund. It's not a perk. It's okay if you didn't know that. It's in the best interests of a lot of fairly large corporations that you don't.
I will be waving a placard on behalf of a guild I've officially belonged to for less than a month. This really wasn't how it was supposed to go.
I wonder what would happen if all writers, from novelists to bloggers, decided to join in the strike. With that thought in mind, does my blogging without compensation make me part of the problem?
I've been around writers for 20 years. We're not greedy people. We have agents for that. Yet, if it comes to a strike, we'll strike. And we'll be united, somewhere between brothers and sisters in arms, and the coalition of the selfish.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Now that the WGA strike has been called for Monday, it's important to get some practice dealing with disinformation, a deceptive tactic meant to flummox the bewildered.
The fact is, this fight is very much about the future of our relationship to giant corporations. As individuals, as artists, as workers, as citizens. It is a fight for the value of work itself in a changing world.
It has been suggested by some that what seems like the inexorable writers' strike is akin to the present war in Iraq. That is a glib distortion; one which completely misstates the present impasse.
Though my union, the WGA is trying to annex the Internet, I believe I will still be able to send communiqués to you from the trenches once the shock and awe of writers at war begins.
As a labor supporter and TV enthusiast who does not live in Hollywood, I wondered what I could do to show my support for the writers' strike; and then it hit me. Until the strike is resolved, I make this pledge...
What was overlooked about John Ridley's analysis, however, is that...well, with nearly every one of his points being contradictory, it didn't make any sense.