Writers Get Creative With Picket Line Slogans – Deadline

UPDATED, 2:16 PM: There’s no purpose why writers can’t have a bit of enjoyable whereas hitting the picket traces, proper?

Protesting over previous and future misplaced wages is critical enterprise, however depart it to Hollywood scribes to seek out the levity in essentially the most dire of conditions. Besides making an attempt to maintain spirits up among the many rank and file by printing up special strike shirts and recommending restaurants which might be providing WGA reductions, the writers are additionally discovering intelligent methods to make their picket indicators extra than simply, nicely, plain outdated picket indicators.

“E.T. was improvised, right?” learn one.

“I have beef with the AMPTP & I’m going to piss on their bathroom floor,” learn one other.

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Here’s the newest sampling:

Several reporters at present have been strolling round asking writers how lengthy we’d *really* be keen to strike. I don’t know dude, how lengthy do you suppose it’ll take 11,000 unemployed writers to expire of signal concepts? #wgastrong #writersstrike pic.twitter.com/C0cq81jTcF

— mah ree nah (@marinarachael) May 3, 2023

While assembling picket indicators at WGA headquarters, MEGAN screenwriter Akela Cooper discovered this outdated picket stick that I signed again throughout the ‘07 strike. We marched and won then, and if we have to, we’ll march and win once more. #WGAStrong pic.twitter.com/OR4TanN5EO

— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) April 27, 2023