Stars Speak Out On Writers Strike

NATIONAL STRIKE DAY PROPOSED!

Dear Americans,

I would like to propose a "NATIONAL STRIKE DAY" for every American that is able. I have heard France has been doing this with great success. Please let us get everyone engaged here and anywhere we can post this message or one of your own.

The Questions I would ask here are as follows: What day should it be and when and how often? Once a month to start or? I believe this would really give the people back their power in this country. It is time to take action! If we do not take some action now as our Declaration of Independence says we have the right and obligation to, it looks like our country will fall.

People are losing their homes by the millions, and jobs of course with it, and our government with the media's help are trying to hide it from us. They are going to let us just fall, we have to save ourselves, to many good people's lives are being ruined.

This is the responsibility of a free people. Be sure the world bankers have a diabolical plan for us and unless we truly want to be slaves, we have to do something. I am open to other ideas, or maybe someone is already doing this (I heard something). I plead with each American here on Twitter to get involved and support this idea, and everywhere else we can get this message out.

This will be a peaceful way to get our government's attention, while we take back our country. Trust me if George Washington and the many honorable men and women who fought our war of Independence were here today, they would have already taken action years ago, many years ago, and I doubt it would be very peaceful.

Thus, no one works until our demands are met. Start with say five or ten demands. So my idea, proposal is that Americans just go to the street, your city hall, or what is ever appropriate in your state. No one works until our demands are met. But absolutely No violence, no vandalism, no matter what please. That will destroy our honest political cause afforded us by our constitution. In fact, we should make, in my opinion that it is a very somber and quite sit in, almost complete silence until our demands are met, so they cannot try and intimidate people or arrest them unlawfully as they have been doing. I believe this is very important point, no conflict what so ever, just freeze everything. We are all allowed to stay home from work. We need to get employers involved obviously.

My list of demands start as follows:

1.) No more bail outs, but instead money is to be given directly to the American people.
I heard some experts are saying that this is the only real cure, some 450,000.00 to each American is the answer to our financial crisis. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?=26321

2.) Abolish the IRS, period!

3.) Reinstate our fourth Amendment rights.

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5.)

I hope others will give their suggestions. I would recommend we elect a board and thus work to organize our first AMERICAN NATIONAL STRIKE DAY, or if someone has already started this, please if anyone is aware of this let me know.

Sincere hope for our beloved nation,
Stephen Paine

Why They Fight.
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Interesting. I Would love to why they fight on air at Current actualy or at least see it as a submited POD to vote on. The quality is very high and the points are succinct and haven't been covered well in the media. Though a more personalized touch might help if it were to become a POD. Some video as well as the photos and perhaps some shots of the producer or narrators themselves. Very interesting issue especially since we are discussing it here on a social news site/television network.

here's my concern: it seems like TV shows are already struggling when it comes to viewership...for example, how many new shows are really doing well this season?

i get that the money from DVDs and also online viewings needs to get distributed properly but couldn't a strike like this end up doing more harm than good? the last strike is what led to the explosion in cable TV...i wonder where this will lead

I think it is wonderful that this strike is going on...even though it may affect us TV addicts...
The online TV industry and DVD rental sales/rental have increased dramatically...leaving these huge studios with a large amount of profit going to a few people. These writers need to be acknowledged and treated fairly being that they are what is behind all of these shows/movies that we tune into watch weekly. I honestly think why none of these people interviewed have anything direct to say is because their jobs in the industry are not directly affected at this point. These are celebrities that ARE getting a huge cut of these profits but if these writers are not acknowledged, then the when the contractors for the directors, etc expire it could cause a much larger problem...even more directly affecting the future of the industry and us as viewers.

This is a really big deal. However, I bet that this strike is over quickly.. every shows ratings will go down and the company will begin to lose big chunks of money. Also, in every interview that i've heard about this strike, there was no specific reason given for the strike. I'm looking for more information if anyone has it!

The interesting part is that most of those who are interviewed do not really say what this issue is all about, why the writers are striking. Of course, typically, strikes are all about money, could it be something more than money? They do state how this will impact them, not to much on how they feel it will impact the viewers, maybe just more reruns...