Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon & Common Sign SAG-AFTRA Open Letter To Protect Pro-Palestine Actors
deadline.comA group of pro-Palestine actors, writers, directors and crew is taking their fight to SAG-AFTRA. Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Common, Susan Sarandon and Rosie O’Donnell are among the more than 700 movie and TV professionals to sign an open letter from SAG-AFTRA & Sister Guild Members for Ceasefire, calling for an end to the “industry’s McCarthyist repression of members who acknowledge Palestinian suffering.” Other signatories include Ramy Youssef, Riz Ahmed, Busy Philipps, Griffin Dunne, Kendrick Sampson, Indya Moore, Haaz Sleiman, Sara Ramirez, Tavi Gevinson, Bobbi Menuez, Atsuko Okatsuka, Leo Sheng, Poppy Liu, Isis King, E.R.
Fightmaster, Angelica Ross, Lexi Underwood, Zoe Chao, Dylan Adler, Jordan Hull, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Jacob Tobia, Josh Thomas and more.
Read it in full below. Following Hamas’ October 7 terroristattack on Israel and the Israeli government’s subsequent attacks on Gaza, SAG-AFTRA previously shared a statement in support of the Jewish people.
The open letter acknowledged that the war has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and displaced millions. “Despite these clear violations of human rights and Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land and lives, our union leadership has remained silent.
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