Moore to get DGA award, and you can protest
Mikey is getting the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award from the Director’s Guild of America tonight. This is rich with irony, as he doesn’t make documentaries nor does he use union workers in his films. As we all know, the show business guilds are all supporting the Writer’s Guild strike. Another level of irony.
Care to spread the word about Mike to some of the Los Angeles faithful? Head down to the The Director’s Guild Theater around 5 or 6 PM tonight. The ceremony starts at 6:30. The Director’s Guild Theater is located at 7920 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Some people I know are planning to hand out flyers about Mikey and Manufacturing Dissent, plus generally protest the ceremony. It does seem rather ridiculous that Moore should get an award from a trade union that alleges to support the unions Mikey shuns, given the whole writer’s strike (which, despite my generally anti-union beliefs, I 100% fully support. Writers get screwed eight ways from Sunday by the production companies, and they deserve a bigger piece of the billions and billions of dollars that would not exist if they didn’t write).
If you’d like to go in to the ceremony, there may be tickets available for anyone who wishes to attend. They are available on site for $105.32. Steep, but if you have the cash and the time, it would be wonderful to see people turn the tables on Mike and use his techniques against him. If you go, film everything! I’ll host and post any good video here. Also, ask around for a guy named Matt and tell him I said hello, and don’t get arrested!
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