Hello, everybody, and welcome to another bonus chapo episode in our ongoing series of

Strikewatch 2023.

Today, we are joined by our good friend Alex Press, who is a staff writer at Jacobin,

and someone who covers the labor movement and a wide variety of publications.

Alex, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

So Alex, you've been out on the West Coast for a minute now covering a number of different

labor actions, but probably the most high profile of them, being the ongoing WGA and SAG

after strike in Tinseltown, USA.

Now this episode will feature some of our men on the street picket line interviews that

we've conducted over the last week or so, but let me just start by asking you, what have

you been hearing on the picket lines covering these ongoing strikes in the entertainment

industry?

There's a big question, right?

There are a handful of key priorities for both the actors and the writers.

They overlap a lot, and then there's some distinctions.

So I feel like starting there and then just kind of going to some of the more interesting

things people have said, you know, other things people repeat a lot, but first AI, right?

And so for that, you know, the writers, as people listening to this know, the AI generated

writing for television is awful.

You see the posts all the time that just are dog shit.

And so really it's not a huge threat right now for the TV and film writers.

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