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BATTLING BEGINS! Screen Actors Guild Election Blown Apart By Websites; Issues Include AFTRA Poaching & SAG Ignoring

By NIKKI FINKE | Thursday August 26, 2010 @ 2:59am PDTTags: 2010 SAG Election, AFTRA, Membership First, SAG, SAG AFTRA, Unite for Strength

I have been wondering how any honest campaigning can be held in the ongoing SAG election what with this ludicrous anti-free speech SAG-AFTRA Non-Disparagement Agreement in effect. It forbids any criticism of either guild’s current leadership written or verbal — which in effect silences not just any public dissent but also any public discussion during this election. But last night, the SAG electioneering began to intensify with the website MembershipFirst.com’s outreach effort to campaign against SAG’s status quo. Turnabout is fair play. After all, the website UniteForStrength.com representing SAG’s so-called National Majority was first to attack its opposition MembershipFirst. And then there’s the anonymously run Sagwatch.net which regularly bashes SAG’s MembershipFirst (even though everyone is well aware there’s an AFTRA Board member behind it). And its loyal opposition Sagwatchdog.net which is also anonymous. Clearly, all sides now intend to campaign, albeit some in the shadows. Here’s the latest:



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Membership First Fields SAG Election Slate

By NIKKI FINKE | Wednesday August 11, 2010 @ 2:45am PDTTags: 2010 SAG Election, Guilds, Membership First, SAG

Membership First has issued its 2010 SAG election slate of 29 candidates for the September vote. The group is “dedicated to protecting the members of the Screen Actors Guild by preserving the existing contracts as well as … Read More »

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