Striking Writers Enlist Kids

Writers use Veterans Day to teach kids and garner attention
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 12, 2007 6:20 PM CST
Striking Writers Enlist Kids
Michael Lent carries his three-year-old son, Willem, on his shoulders as Lent and other Writers Guild of America members picket outside the Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., Monday. Nov 12, 2007, at the start of the second week of the strike. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)   (Associated Press)

Striking scribes took advantage of Veterans Day to bring their kids to picket lines in Los Angeles today, the AP reports. The move garnered attention and gave parents a chance to tutor youngsters in payments and residuals. "It's a little rude for the producers to take so much and have nothing left to share," said one 10-year-old carrying a homemade sign.

Donuts and cookies nourished the roughly 100 kids as they picketed at Disney studios. A screenwriter said her daughter "has been dying to strike all week," while another said he wanted his sons to experience the strike as "a once-in-a-lifetime thing—I hope." One preschooler's sign was mere scribbles with green marker, but another's was clear: "I'm learning to share. Can you? Play nice." (More Writers Guild of America stories.)

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