Introduction

The AMPTP pushed sag onto the picket lines with proposals that guaranteed a strike, has underlined that point indelibly. When I was 10, the coach of my little league team was a guy named Keith Weghelman. He wasn't a movie star, just a middle class actor who spent Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings coaching kids like me. Today, Keith's career would not get him anywhere close to that house in the valley and he'd be driving for Uber just to pay for the fucking briefcase. The dispute between writers and the companies that control our industry is the front line in a much larger struggle about the corporatization of America.