WGA Donates 200,000 Pencils To NYC Students
Guild Also Disseminates Strike Symbols To Media Chiefs
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 1/16/2008 10:31:00 AM
The Writers Guild of America East, on strike since Nov. 5, Wednesday donated 200,000 pencils to the United Federation of Teachers for use by students in New York City.
UFT president Randi Weingarten accepted the donation at her headquarters and spoke, as the pencils were delivered by WGAE president Michael Winship and striking writers.
The pencils were purchased as part of the Pencils 2 Media Moguls effort, which encouraged fans of TV shows to purchase pencils to send to the media models who head the six companies that dominate the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Nearly 750,000 pencils have been purchased to date, with 500,000 delivered to media executives in Los Angeles in December, where they were rejected, according to the WGA. In New York, pencils were delivered by teams of writers and fans to CBS chief Les Moonves, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes and Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone.
Earlier in the day Wednesday, the WGAE held a large-scale picket outside the One Life To Live Studios on West 66 Street off of Central Park West. More than 250 striking WGAE members took part in the demonstration outside the ABC Studios, with John Leguizamo and Vincent D’Onofrio joining the line. Many actors from One Life To Live also stopped by and demonstrated their support, including David Frumero, John Brotherton and Tika Sumpter.
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