Our Flag Means Strike!

Sharing info and building community surrounding the WGA & SAG-AFTRA srikes. Our Flag Means Strike organizes snacks and food drop offs at picketting locations via donation. Asks and messaging are open, there are no stupid questions! But please allow a couple days for us to get back to you. Run by moderators Jamie and Mal

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Tomorrow at WB: The Fan Picket!

Please come out TOMORROW, Tuesday October 3, to show support for the actors on strike! The writers were on strike 148 days but they got their deal! Now it's the actors' turn! Their negotiations with the studios begin today, and the higher the turnout right now, the easier for the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee. High visible public support means more leverage at the bargaining table! The Trek-fandom Snack Squad has teamed up with OFMD Snakery Snackery squad to sponsor food trucks: breakfast tacos, ice cream, churros, and a full-service coffee stand.

But this isn't about any individual fandom, it's about the power of fans and fandom communities at large. We are often overlooked by studios as just being a segment of their audiences, but we are massively powerful because of our passion, creativity, and community. Let's harness that power to get a high turnout — and high online visibility — Tuesday, Oct 3, and keep the pressure on for the studios to negotiate with the actors in good faith.

Come on out and let's party on the picket line!

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SAG-AFTRA strike leadership asks that people do not come to pickets in cosplay that accurately depicts characters from struck shows, but please feel free to wear fun outfits and non-canon cosplay.

(please help us boost this by tagging as many relevant fandoms and characters and creators as you know)

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Oct 4-6:

Noon Pacific Time, Wednesday, October 4 - Noon, Friday, October 6

Join our pfp campaign! For 48 hours around the beginning of the release of OFMD Season 2, let's change our pfps to this so any promotion of the show that our activity results in comes tied with awareness of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Support the actors who made this show, not the studios that don't want to give them a fair contract!

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This Wednesday! People have started changing their pfps already and already there's a rising sea of teal, pink, and rainbow unicorns! Also, WGA_FandomLove on twitter has made a twibbon as an alternative, if you want to show support on top of your normal pfp.

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Why change your PFP from Oct 4-6?

We’re gonna give the S2 premiere an impressively ferocious amount of hype. Why provide struck studios with free promo while our actors are still on the picket line? ✊🏽😉🏴‍☠️

Change your PFP to the image above!

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Oct 4-6:

Noon Pacific Time, Wednesday, October 4 - Noon, Friday, October 6

Join our pfp campaign! For 48 hours around the beginning of the release of OFMD Season 2, let's change our pfps to this so any promotion of the show that our activity results in comes tied with awareness of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Support the actors who made this show, not the studios that don't want to give them a fair contract!

[ourflagmeansstrike]

This Wednesday! People have started changing their pfps already and already there's a rising sea of teal, pink, and rainbow unicorns! Also, WGA_FandomLove on twitter has made a twibbon as an alternative, if you want to show support on top of your normal pfp.

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Oct 4-6:

Noon Pacific Time, Wednesday, October 4 - Noon, Friday, October 6

Join our pfp campaign! For 48 hours around the beginning of the release of OFMD Season 2, let's change our pfps to this so any promotion of the show that our activity results in comes tied with awareness of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Support the actors who made this show, not the studios that don't want to give them a fair contract!

[politijohn]

Source

Source

[yesokayiknow]

'why are actors striking aren't they all millionaires' here's a paywall free link to an article that mentions how most of the cast of one of netflix's biggest shows had day jobs bc they couldn't afford rent

[chirpsythismorning]

Sadie at the SAG-AFTRA strike yesterday in NYC 🥹

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Written by Julia Yorks and posted on twitter by WGASTRIKEUNITE

[stephenlangdaily]

@slang_711: We go back a good long way and we are stickin’ together and stickin’ to the union!

Stephen with the great actor John Turturro on the picket line today!

[star-mom-selkie]

girl seize the means of production!

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This was also quote tweeted and amplified by OP in the comments!

Via ashleyn1cole and ReallyMighty on twitter

[backstepping]

what black mirror episode are we in now

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AMPTP Hires New Crisis PR Firm as Strikes Go On

As talks with the Writers Guild of America stall, the studio trade association has retained D.C.-based firm The Levinson Group to pursue a f

[aquitainequeen]

David Slack warning against AMPTP trying to turn the unions against each other, and stating the facts.

[gay-hrithik-roshan]

and

EDIT:

sure why not:

tags via @littleredplanetnumberfour

EDIT 2:

someone asked for a sag-aftra one:

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Getchur Prints, Support Artists!

The Many Faces of Rhys Darby, an art print by Em

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

The amazing artist @emcolbs has this print running until the end of August! All proceeds go towards the Entertainment Community Fund, so you get some cute art and you get to support the striking artists. Win-win! Get it while it's here!

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Update from the WGA on negotiations

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"Dear Members,

After 102 days of being on strike and of AMPTP silence, the companies began to bargain with us on August 11, presenting us for the first time with a counteroffer.

We responded to their counter at the beginning of last week and engaged in further discussions throughout the week.

On Monday of this week, we received an invitation to meet with Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav and Carol Lombardini. It was accompanied by a message that it was past time to end the strike and that the companies were finally ready to bargain for a deal.

We accepted that invitation and, in good faith, met tonight, in hopes that the companies were serious about getting the industry back to work.

Instead, on the 113th day of the strike - and while SAG-AFTRA is walking the picket lines by our side – we were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counter offer was.

We explain to all the ways in which their counter's limitations and loopholes and omissions failed to sufficiency protect writers from the existential threats that caused us to strike in the first place. We told them that a strike has a price, and that price is an answer to all – and not just some – of the problems they have created in the business.

But this wasn't a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to cave, which is why, not twenty minutes after we left the meeting, the AMPTP released its summary of their proposals.

This was the companies' plan from the beginning – not to bargain, but to jam us. It is their only strategy – to bet that we will turn on each other. Tomorrow we will send a more detailed description of the state of the negotiations. And we will see you all out on the picket lines and let the companies continue to see what labor power looks like.

In solidarity,

WGA negotiating committee."