PLATFORM : Women in TV

Here we’re going to free Kuwait--where women can’t vote--and protect Saudi Arabia--where women can’t drive--and we have to watch it on a medium where there are so few women in front of and behind the camera. (Women) are still inferior citizens on some levels.

We’re putting pressure on the industry. But the money has gotten so excessive that they’re going with what (the executives) consider sure bets. I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, but in effect it dominates and controls the media.

In the 1960s, Another Mother for Peace was an association that started around my dining room table. The mail that (we) directed to the networks and Congress resulted in a mass movement and I think that’s what’s necessary now. If people want to see more working-class people, more women, in the industry, they can do what we did in Another Mother for Peace--send a postcard to the Writers Guild of America. We will take that and start something.