Quantum Storytelling

Very interesting…

“it is important for you to report to the Guild the name of any non member whom you believe has performed any writing services for a struck company and as much information as possible about the non member’s services.”

So, if a person is not a WGA member, and that person writes during the strike, they can be reported to the WGA, but on a blacklist by WGA members, and barred from joining in the future? You mean, a career can be potentially damaged by writing right now, even though a person is not a member?

Mafia anyone?

Ya know, that’s exactly why this law was created.

Writers should get their extra four cents. I just wish gangs weren’t the only vehicle to get it. The end most certainly does not justify the means. Is it possible to be in support of the strike’s cause, without being in support of the gangs on either side?

I respect someone’s right to be part of a union. Just as they should respect my right to not be part of a union. Except, it doesn’t work like that. You have to take part, or you’re an evil outsider. That’s how gangs work.

Do you think this kind of bullying is acceptable?

This post says it’s not happening - or only happening on the other side.

Look folks, it’s happening on both sides right now. I don’t think any of it is right. That’s why I’m picking the side of independence. I don’t think writers should be beholden to corporations or the union. Remember what old Ben Franklin said;

“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.”

I don’t know about you, but I will not trade my freedom for security. If you don’t believe that picking a side is voiding a freedom then you might read this. It is your right under the constitution — nobody can take that away from you, via coercion or force of any kind.

If we find that freedom can be easily taken away, then this is not the country we thought it was — and we have only ourselves to blame for emboldening and encouraging the gangs that run it.