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Still Time for Los Angeles-Based Actors' Equity Members to Vote for National Councillors

Got this today. The Pro-99 Mandated candidates. Do with it what you will, but most importantly, just vote. The only way Equity changes its tone and its way of doing things is from the inside out. This is an opportunity to continue to make reparations.Dear Fellow Equity Member:As a fellow Equity member, if you’re laggards like us and still haven’t voted in the current Actors’ Equity elections for National Council, you may be wondering who you should v...

LA's Pro99 Barely Makes Any Inroads in Actors' Equity Election Results

Here they are, folks. Read ’em and do whatever the hell you want. Winners in Red.Eastern RegionPrincipal 4-Year Term:Nick Wyman (2789) Nancy Slusser (2510) Camille Saviola (2501) Francis Jue (2353)<s...

Only 7215 of 50,000 Actors' Equity Association Members Voted in the Last National Election

14%.That’s the percentage of AEA Union members that voted in this last 2016 national election that just closed up shop last week.7215 of 50,000.14%.Think about that for a second. Imagine if that was the voter turnout for a national presidential election. 14%. What would that mean? What would it say?Volumes.Wouldn’t it make the election invalid? I mean, isn’t there a quorum necessary for government to actually work? A threshold of validity? Or shouldn’t th...

And the Legal Test of Los Angeles Theater's 99 Seat Plan Has Begun

“Lawsuit? What lawsuits?”I remember there was a lot of that hue and cry going on when the Re-Imagine LA “manifesto” came out. It was in response to some language in there around the Department of Labor looking over a couple of potential lawsuits against some of the producers working under the 99 Seat Plan. Much of the response was, "What lawsuits? They’re al...

Plaintiffs in Actors vs. Actors Equity Association respond to AEA statement

Dear Equity Member and Los Angeles Theatre Community –By now you have seen Equity’s Press Release and letter to their members attacking act...

He Didn’t Know He’d Joined THE MOB

It’s like one of Dash Hammett’s lesser novels, or a run-of-the-mill pulp: Charlie Square joins a “labor organization,” but Charlie do<sp...