JOE HILL IN THE HAMPTONS.(The Talk of the Town)(Writers Guild of America East's writes children's show, "It's a Big, Big World")

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 26-SEP-05

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Any resort town's list of unwelcome visitors would have to include picketing workers and giant rodents. These days, East Hampton has both. Last month, aggrieved members of the Writers Guild of America East set up a picket line outside Wainscott Studios, a television-production facility, where "It's a Big, Big World," a new PBS children's show with a non-guild writing staff, is shooting. They brought with them a familiar labor mascot, a fifteen-foot-tall inflatable rat, on loan from the Musicians Local 802. Since then, demonstrators have been showing up every weekday at the studio, to chant slogans, demand negotiations, and shout one name over and over: Mitchell Kriegman.

Kriegman is the creator and producer of "It's...

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