Its theWGAs first strike since the 100-day walkout of 2007-08.

Here we go, wrote David Simon (The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street).

See you all on the pavement, my brothers and sisters.

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He followed it with the hashtag #WGAstrong.

We have the whole town behind us.

And we have our work.

wga picket signs

Well emerge with a fair deal.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

proclaimed Thunder Levin, the mastermind behind theSharknadofranchise.

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Here we go.

We won’t survive something like that.#WGAStrong#WGAStrike#WGAStressed

We are creators.

They make money because of what we do.

and the studios rejected the proposal.

Writer friends I want to say 3 things before I pass out.1.

We WANTED a deal and we fought till the bitter end for it.2.

Now we have to exercise our power to get it.3.

Don’t believe the spin that’s already coming out.

We’re going to fight.

We have the whole town behind us.

And we have our work.

I’m making myself a matching sweater.

I came up with a sign and also maybe a chantpic.twitter.com/OkOIlkjkxR

Whelp.