Tom Corwine

It was typical day at Gate 3, Universal - show up at 6am, walk for three hours, go home. Today, though, instead of going home, I went out to eat with two other picket line walkers, Fred and Isaac. While talking on the picket line is great, the restaurant was a better environment to chat, since we’re not subjected to traffic noise and sucking carbon monoxide fumes.

I returned to Universal later in the day to attend location picketing training. As the name suggests, location picketing entails going out to locations and asserting our 1st Amendment right to get our message across. Location picketing doesn’t have a fixed schedule like studio picketing, it’s more like on call, on the fly type work. It sounded interesting, but for now I think I’ll stick to the studios.

If anyone out there would like to come out to Universal and join the line, we’d love to have you. The Gate 3 morning shift has at least five regulars who are not WGA members, including myself, so you will be in good company. Information about picket locations and shifts is available at the WGAw web site.

Fridays are reserved for rallies, and this Friday’s (12/7/07) rally is the It’s All Written Rally at FremantleMedia from 12pm to 2pm.

The only picture I took today was a close up of a picket sign. I intend to use this to create a virtual picket sign in Second Life. If you are interested in participating in a virtual strike, get on Second Life and search for the Fans For Writers group.

Here is the picture of the picket sign, in case I don’t get a chance to make my virtual picket sign before Saturday.

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