| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Drew Markworth and this is a script |
| 0:06.0 | on its sidecast, a short episode about one thing. Now Drew, I feel like I'm always saying |
| 0:10.3 | if you're not a writer or if you live outside of the US, this won't really apply to you, |
| 0:14.3 | but in this case, it does. Because on June 14th, that's this coming Wednesday, the |
| 0:19.0 | WJ sister guilds and unions from the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds, the Federation |
| 0:23.3 | of Screen Mathers in Europe, and the UNI Global Union are organizing pickets and other |
| 0:27.6 | actions to support the WJ strike. So even if you're outside of the US, you can actually |
| 0:32.1 | do something now. It's called Screen Mathers everywhere. It's happening in a huge number |
| 0:36.5 | of countries. Yeah, looking at the list here, it's Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, |
| 0:41.5 | Bulgaria, Germany, France, Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Netherlands, Argentina, Italy, Colombia, |
| 0:49.9 | Denmark, South Korea, Spain, Mexico, and Israel. All right. So we have a lot of listeners |
| 0:55.1 | from around the world, but I think those countries cover a huge percentage of those. I know |
| 0:59.7 | we have a listener in Antarctica. I'm sorry, he will not be able to participate in one |
| 1:03.9 | of these actions, but a lot of other people could, and that's kind of great. So if you |
| 1:08.6 | are a screenwriter or a TV writer in one of those countries, this is your chance to get |
| 1:12.2 | out there. Obviously, many of the concerns that we have about just causing the strike |
| 1:16.3 | over here are the same worldwide. We work with some of the same multinational corporations, |
| 1:22.0 | our content is distributed on all of their platforms. So there's a real shared areas |
| 1:26.3 | with concern here. I see a link here and we'll include it in the show notes to a page that |
| 1:30.6 | has all the info about where the events are and how to RSVP. Absolutely. So you should |
| 1:34.8 | RSVP just so they get a head count there for the different places. Again, it's this Wednesday, |
| 1:39.6 | and I'm really curious what these events are like. So if you're out there and you're |
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