Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Tourists Turn Demonstrators In L.A.; Shawn Ryan, Jon Huertas, Sandra Bernhard Talk Strikes
deadline.comIt’s Day 11 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 84 of the WGA strike. On a Monday that saw Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez join the picket lines in front of Warner Bros Discovery in New York, a mother and son became strike demonstrators Monday as both actors and writers picketed in front of Paramount in Los Angeles.
The pair — Carol, in town from Vermont to visit her son Graham, who attends USC — arrived at the Melrose Avenue lot to take the studio’s guided tour.
But when they arrived they saw the picket signs of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild, both unions on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers over new film and TV contracts.
As the tour was about to begin, the two were asked by guides to enter but they declined to cross the picket line — and instead grabbed signs.
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