State Senator Joan Lovely addresses the protest rally.
The Witch City has seen its fair share of movie and TV screen time in the past several decades. Yesterday, leaders returned the favor and showed support amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA actors and writers strike affecting the entertainment industry.
North Shore actors, writers, and other members of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) marched through downtown Salem late Tuesday afternoon.
”We’re working-class actors fighting for a fair wage. We’re not household names; we’re households,” he said. “We’re real people, and we live in Salem, and we live on the North Shore. We live amongst you, and all we’re trying to get is fair compensation for our labor — just like everybody else.”
The target of the march is a story being heard and felt throughout the nation, if not the world. On July 13, the National Board for SAG-AFTRA called a strike after a breakdown in negotiations between them and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. As a result of the conflict, new productions — movies, TV shows, etc. — have ground to a halt.