BOSTON (AP) — Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, and some shouted “pay your writers,” as he gave the school’s commencement address Sunday in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside. About 100 protesters chanted “No wages, no pages,” waved signs and were accompanied by an inflatable rat outside Nickerson Field as David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Thousands of graduating students, family members and educators attending the graduation ceremony had to walk by the protesters to enter the stadium. Other students booed during his speech and shouted in support of the striking writers. It’s the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in 15 years.

Source: The Star May 22, 2023 03:29 UTC