Spike Lee, Adam McKay and over 2,000 writers decry Trump’s ‘un-American’ actions in open letter | Spike Lee
More than 2,300 members of the American Writers Guild, including Spike Lee and Adam McKay, signed an open letter that disrupts the actions of Donald Trump’s administration, which expresses an unseen, authoritarian attack ”.
The letter, which is a united effort from WGA East and Western Branches, states “unquestionable cases ına against news organizations that“ publish and remove them in return ”news organizations. In particular, Paramount refers to a 60 -minute interview with Kamala Harris to Trump. The letter requested that Trump retaliate for publications that actually reports about the White House and threatened his licenses ”and cancel the programs that criticized it again.
In addition, the letter explodes the Republicans in the Congress with the Trump administration to define the company for public broadcasting “to silence PBS and NPR. And the FCC, led by President Brendan Carr, who was appointed by Trump, said that on the assurance that the CBS’s journalism and entertainment programming will make ‘important changes’ to the alleged ideological perspective of the alleged ideological perspective, they clearly stipulate the confirmation of the Skying-Paramount.
“These are attempts to restrict non -American stories and jokes, species to silence criticism and opposition,” he says. “We have no king, we have a president. And the president cannot choose what happened on television, cinemas, stage, book shelves or news.”
Signatures include Tony Gilroy, David Simon, Mike Schur, Ilana Glazer, Lilly Wachowski, Celine song, Justin Kuritzkes, Desus Nice, Gillian Flynn, John Waters, Liz Meriwether, Kenneth Lonergan, Kenneth Lonergan, Alfonso Carón, Shawn Ryan names.
The letter, published on Tuesday, calls elected representatives and industry leaders to ır resist these extreme access ”and to“ fight for a free and democratic future ”and“ raising their voices ”.
Last Friday, the Public Broadcasting Institution announced that the Parliament under the control of the Republic -controlled Parliament will eliminate a price of 1.1 billion dollars in the CPB funds for two years, and announced that it will be put into operation for 57 years after making a discount of 9 billion dollars to public media and foreign aid programs.
Founded in 1967 to ensure that education and cultural programming remains accessible to all Americans, the company was distributed to PBS, NPS and 1,500 local stations throughout the country more than $ 500 million per year. Despite federal grants, stations were mostly based on audience donations, institutional sponsorships and local government funds.
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against three CPB board members who refused to abandon their positions after trying to lift them.
“This for the first time in this country, free speech is attacked, but our right to free speech continues to be the right to protect themselves generation,” he concludes. “Now and always, when the authors are attacked, our collective power as a union allows us to return. This period in American life will not last forever and will remember who has the courage to speak when it is on the world.”
