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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.
Their story got a shoutout by WGA organizers as the picketing came to a close at midday.
Meet Carol and Graham, a mother and son from Vermont, who ventured to Paramount Pictures today to take part in the studio’s guided tour of the grounds.That is, until they saw picketers gathered outside the front gate.With tour guides ready to take them inside, the duo refused… pic.twitter.com/SYF6IyBB70
Other picketers seen at Paramount today included Jack Black.
At Fox Studios in Century City, more than 100 demonstrators picketed included Clark Gregg, who has been heartened to see “oozing solidarity and passion” amidst SAG-AFTRA and the WGA as a member of both groups.
In terms of the most distressing issues affecting the issue, Gregg pointed to “a very current American phenomenon” that has seen companies give undue focus to “hedge fund institutional shareholders” rather than to “their audience.” He acknowledged at the same time that
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