West Side Story Protest

MARCH ON BROADWAY! April 22ND (DATE CHANGE DUE TO WEATHER!)

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Want to know what work we've been doing post-March on Broadway?? Come hop on to the Transparency Chat 3.0, happening now on Instagram @/50milerunforjusticeprotest !!! Lots of AEA doings and updates.

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here’s an easy action step you can take right now... go to the link in my bio and sign the NEW petition to get Scott Rudin on the Do Not Work list!! Now that he’s resigned from the Broadway League, it’s time for Equity to take the step.

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@megmnyc yay!!!

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I don’t have words to describe today!! thank you to everyone who showed up but ESPECIALLY to my volunteers and cyclists who saw me running around like a chicken with my head cut off for most of the day doing things and still were incredibly gracious and always offering to help.

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@JenniferArfsten 💗💗💗

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also, if you have pictures or videos or anything at all, please send them my way!! I would love to see :))

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btw, walking past the West Side Story theater with a giant crowd of industry professionals chanting “Scott Rudin has got to go”? That was sweet.

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Transparency Chat about the March on Broadway happening now on ZOOM!!! click the link in my bio to join!

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Transparency chat happening at 9 on the Broadway for Racial Justice insta page!! Tune in!!

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anyone want to help us out by screen recording the Transparency Chat livestream tonight so we have backups? If we could have a couple people help us out with this just to have peace of mind in case there are any technical errors (hopefully there won’t be) it would be a huge help!

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the safety of the attendees is absolutely paramount. We can’t ask cyclists who have graciously volunteered to protect us to ride on slick roads with poor visibility— it wouldn’t be the responsible thing to do. So while unfortunate, this is for the best!

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DATE CHANGE— MARCH ON BROADWAY
Due to the forecasted 85% chance of thunderstorms on Wednesday, we have made the decision to push the march back one day to Thursday to make this action as safe and accessible as it possibly can be.
PLEASE SHARE SO PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THE CHANGE!!

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You know what to do— link in bio for the email template. And hey Equity National Council members!! check your inboxes, we need your action too. We stand in solidarity with trans and non-binary artists. #MarchOnBroadway #BroadwayFightsBack

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Volunteer sign ups are still open! a big thanks to all those signed up so far. As always, link in bio for the form!

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a good follow up to the “stepping aside” news. It’s not enough. we still have so much work to do to bar Rudin from our industry— @ActorsEquity, our calls to add him to the “Do Not Work” list still stands. Any production he touches cannot be a production on Broadway.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Behind Scott Rudin’s Move to ‘Step Back’ From Broadway Productions https://t.co/Jll9zxMdKs

[OnStage Blog @OnstageBlog]

Can the @washingtonpost report on Rudin without padding his ego at the same time?

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DEMAND #3 - A FULL REPORT ON HOW THE 2019-2020 EQUITY DUES WERE SPENT AND PERCENTAGE WAS BEING SPENT TO HELP CONVERSATIONS AROUND DIVERSITY

Link in bio for the email template!

Plain and simple. #NoNewsNoDues #MarchOnBroadway #BroadwayFightsBack

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Have any questions about what’s going on? @/randomblackgirllll and @/50milerunforjusticeprotest on Instagram will be going live tomorrow to talk about everything happening! If you have any questions or concerns, please bring them up!! #MarchOnBroadway #BroadwayFightsBack

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@OnstageBlog @KumoriRaven and the same people who impersonated Megan!! so insidious

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huh. I think some weird algorithm thing is going on. It’s very strange to go from hundreds of engagements to just a handful— I don’t this people are seeing my tweets!! if you see this, can you engage with the tweet at the top? it would help us out getting this to people’s feeds!

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Mary McColl stated that AEA is working with organizations to make BIPOC safer. What are these organizations and are they BIPOC led? We want a full list of said organizations and to know how AEA is involved with them. To trust their work, we need transparency. Link in bio!!

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Make sure to write your own subject line before sending. We’re not including one in the template this time around because it can be flagged and filtered out of inboxes if they’re all the same!