This came out of a discussion elsewhere on Lemmy about how famous people like Stephen King are already leaving Twitter. I think it would be cool if we could collectively come up with an email that people can send to those two organizations to do a bit of activism.

For those unaware, SAG is the Screen Actor’s Guild and the WGA is the Writer’s Guild of America. Together, they make up a vast proportion of famous people in the U.S. today. Now that Trump and Elon are working together, I think getting them all to accept the sunk cost and abandon Twitter as union solidarity could work.

SAG’s email is info@sagaftra.org and their president is Fran Drescher.

WGA has two contact points that can be used for emailing.

WGA West wants you to use this form on their website: https://secure.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/contact-us/contact?Email=cfreedman

(This should go to their political director, Corri Freedman).

WGA East has a direct email for their Head of Organizing, Justin Molito: jmolito@wgaeast.org and it probably wouldn’t hurt to also email their Director of Communications and Policy, Jason Gordon: jgordon@wgaeast.org

The WGA’s president is Meredith Stiehm.

I want to suggest that we do not use this as an opportunity to evangelize for Mastodon even though we obviously would prefer for them to all go to Mastodon. First of all, I think many of the older union members would find Mastodon’s learning curve to be a burden. Secondly, it’s much easier to get someone to do one thing you want them to do (give up Twitter) than it is to get them to do two things you want them to do (give up Twitter and switch specifically to Mastodon).

I think this should be platform-neutral. Maybe suggest Mastodon along with other Twitter alternatives, but in my mind, the goal here is to get people off of what is now effectively an arm of a fascist government.

I would love to hear the community’s thoughts.