With music thumping and marchers dancing, the mood was upbeat at the Latine Salon picket staged Wednesday by members of the Writers Guild of America outside NBC Studios in Manhattan. But the collec…
from 2013-17. “It was something that I want all [Latine] writers to be able to have the opportunity to do,” Bedoya said of her experience producing the show, “and to get paid for it — and to get paid well for it.”
She added: “We are tired of being second-class citizens in this country. We have so much talent out there. There are so many of us that want to write, that want to tell our stories. … We deserve to be telling them, and we deserve to be able to pay our mortgages and pay our rents and to have a long career doing this.
Bedoya said she’s in a two-income household — but in New York City, an expensive place to live, and she has children including a son in college. “For us to have to let go of all income during this time is a real challenge,” she said of striking writers. “But we’re willing to do it because we know it’s so important.”
The importance of the strike was another point Bedoya hit on in her speech at the rally: “It’s a really critical moment in the history of television for us to stand up and say yeah, Prior to the strike, she said, the television landscape was both promising and frustrating — progressing and regressing in fits and starts for Latines breaking into the business in the streaming era. After debuted, she said there was an “uptick” in programming with Latine casts and creators.
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