Variety: VFX Artists to Protest Obama’s DreamWorks Animation Visit

Hollywood Reporter: VFX Community Planning Green-Shirt Protest

LA Times: VFX artists will wear green during Obama’s L.A. visit

Animation Magazine: VFX Protest Planned for Obama’s DreamWorks Trip

Details for the outside demonstrators. We will try to walk to DreamWorks if it is allowed:

Date: 11/26/2013 (Tue 11:00AM – 3:00PM)

Location: 1551 Flower St. Glendale, CA 91201

Suggested Parking: Burbank/Glendale Home Depot: 1200 S Flower St. Burbank, CA 91502

Twitter hashtag to get latest info about the event: #VFXObama

The starting location will be at Griffith Manor Park (be careful not to confuse it with Griffith Park). Where something green and warm. Most sports stores have green apparel.

Dave Rand and Tom Capizzi have put their own money into organizing this event. If you can, please send them a kind donation to thank them. You can use square cash to quickly email them the money:

Click here to donate to Dave

Click here to donate to Tom

Details for professionals at DWA:

Dreamworks employee and Animation Guild President-elect Nathan Loofbourrow can be contacted to attain a shirt. Dave Rand has kindly donated $2000 to pay for the green shirts that will be available at DWA. I’ve donated $500.

Lastly, whether you choose to join in the demonstration or not, enjoy it and revel in it. This is a history making moment that should be celebrated for all your accomplishments over the years. I’ll have a longer post with a message for DWA professionals and Mr. Katzenberg. Below I’ve posted a few tweets from fellow colleagues about the event.

Soldier On. Thank you Dave, Tom, and Nathan.

Hearing Pres. Obama will be greeted at DreamWorks Animation by 500 people wearing greenscreen-green shirts. — David S. Cohen (@Variety_DSCohen) November 22, 2013

Just talked to Lou Gossett Jr. He wanted to express his support about what we've been doing. #vfx — VFX Soldier (@VFXSoldier) November 23, 2013

wish I was back in LA to support the #vfxprotest Here's my digital support! Keep fighting and let me know if there's anyway I can contribute — tainted (@_taintedsoul) November 23, 2013

“@AnimGuild: Green Shirts #tag839 http://t.co/fyTgN3VRMS” Great seeing the guild help and support this! — VFX Law (@vfxlaw) November 23, 2013

I spy a sea of green at Dreamworks next week. 🙂 http://t.co/f0S1c0cYY7 — VFX Solidarity Int'l (@VFXSolidarity) November 22, 2013

Artists at Dreamworks, please take a stand and let @BarackObama know the real state of the industry #vfx — VFXUnited (@vfxunited) November 22, 2013

@VFXSoldier This may be the only opportunity #vfx artists in LA ever have to get national attention and press coverage. BE LOUD, GO FOR IT! — VFX Law (@vfxlaw) November 22, 2013

@VFXSoldier @hydroxandhorlix That would be amazing to see the whole audience wearing chroma-green shirts. — Michael Levine (@MichaelLevine3D) November 22, 2013

.@VFXSoldier Failing that Id be stoked to hear president Obama tout the benefits of unionization. #vfx — James Burbank (@gRiverThriller) November 22, 2013

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