Hey script notes. My name is Quarry Reader. I am a independent writer and director and today

I'm at Disney Studios Picketing because it's a very special picket day. It is the first

joint venture between the WGA and SAG after its disability committees. So we're out here

marching as someone who's been a disability advocate for the last nine years in television

and film. I will introduce myself the way that we have been talked to to be able to accommodate

people with low vision and that are blind that I am a white male wearing a sage colored

shirt that says art elevates culture. Let's get on the picket line. Let's meet some of

the people that are moving, grooving, rolling and working their asses off for the cause.

Hi I'm David Radcliffe. I'm the co-chair of the Disabled Writers Committee at the Writers

Guild of America West. I have cerebral palsy and I use a wheelchair and today I'm wearing

a blue writer's guild strike shirt and some gray pants. Tell me why it's important for

you to be here today David. We work really hard to put this event together. It's an event

unifying the Writers with Disabilities Committee at the Writers Guild and the Disability Committee

at the Screen Actors Guild after. And we think it's like really important to get actors

and writers together sharing stories of how to navigate this industry and really amplifying

the reality that disabled artists exist in film and television. I myself have written

for The Rookie and an upcoming CBS show called Tracker and also Waffles and Mochi but within

the writer's guild only 0.6% of the guild is openly disabled. We know that there's

a lot more disabled artists out there and part of the reason for this event is to get us

all picketing together safely and equitably and raise the profile of some of the things

the industry can do to be more inclusive and more creative. I'm very fortunate because

a lot of disabled writers haven't yet had that first break into a room and so some of

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