Chicana Writer Strikes Back - The beauty of the WGA strike is that you don’t have be a WGA member to join us; we don’t discriminate (response to White Writers Strike)

Dear Mr. Hernandez:

This letter is in response to your editorial piece entitled, “White Writers Strike.” First off, I want to inform you that I am a Chicana and a writer who is involved in the current WGA strike. So despite your beliefs, this is not a “white writers strike.” This is a writers strike - one that includes writers who are white, black, brown, young and old.

You’ve probably noticed that there are “very few people of color on those picket lines or very few over 40″ because you’ve been sitting on your couch, in front of your TV set, watching the strike and not participating in it.

As you’re well aware, on November 5th, thousands of film and television writers decided to strike. We simply want to be paid when producers make money from the additional use of our intellectual property. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many new writers this week and I can assure you that they are from all walks of life and are not “silver spoon fed 30 somethings,” as you strongly believe. Though there could possibly be a few of them out there, most of us are just middle-class writers trying to earn a respectable living. “*

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