The scene outside Silvercup Studios on Thursday was the same as it has been for weeks. Dozens of members of the Writers Guild, SAG-AFTRA and other supporters circled loading bays and doors across t…
It all started last month when Leight requested support on the picket lines to try to shut down, claiming that crewmembers had told him “they’ll be blackballed in Murphy-land” if they honor the WGA’s picket line.
Leight has been instrumental in organizing what the WGA has coined its “rapid response teams,” which have picketed and successfully halted productions since the strike began in early May. He did so primarily through Twitter, which has for striking writers to encourage each other and share locations where more reinforcements are needed to battle studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.that he used Twitter to “get hundreds of fast retweets, and the WGA East Rapid Responders respond rapidly, as do actors, students and other allies.
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