SAG-AFTRA is the newest Hollywood group to pledge financial funds to help trade members experiencing hardship from the Los Angeles wildfires. In an announcement in the present day, the group mentioned it’s pledging $1 million to its SAG-AFTRA Basis.
Because the fires broke out Jan. 7, the union has quickly closed its workplace in Los Angeles, moreover canceling its in-person nomination ceremony initially scheduled for the next day.
“I need to thank and acknowledge our broadcast journalist members who’re out day-after-day amid flames, smoke and fiery embers battling to deliver this vital information to the world,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher mentioned in a press release. “The destruction attributable to these blazes, the lack of life and houses, has been gut-wrenching to expertise, and naturally our hearts exit to all affected. However we knew we might do extra; we hope this pledge helps relieve struggling and assists these impacted in placing their lives again collectively after this calamity. I’ve personally been affected by the fires and I really feel deeply for others who’re experiencing this tragedy. These are significantly annoying occasions. Stress compromises the immune system so we should be aware of taking measures to assist our well being.”
SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Government Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Eire added: “The very essence of a labor union is solidarity: that all of us work to raise one another throughout occasions of stability, and we’re there for one another in occasions of disaster. The devastation is difficult to fathom, even for these of us dwelling in it. We’re so lucky to have the SAG-AFTRA Basis as a useful resource and a spot our members can flip to in occasions of want. When you’ve got been lucky to have been spared direct influence from this catastrophe, please assist out in any method you’ll be able to, whether or not by volunteer service, serving to others in want, or donating to reduction funds just like the SAG-AFTRA Basis’s Catastrophe Reduction Fund.”
SAG-AFTRA and the SAG-AFTRA Basis have beforehand chipped in for assets and supplied assist to members each time and wherever catastrophe has struck the nation, together with flooding in New York as a consequence of Superstorm Sandy, hurricanes within the Southeast and pandemic-related reduction.
As famous in a brand new hub that has populated on the group’s web site, the fund is for members who’ve misplaced their houses within the variety of fires blazing throughout Los Angeles — together with the distinguished joint Palisades and Eaton fires. The SAG-AFTRA Basis Catastrophe Reduction Fund is “devoted to assembly their most pressing wants throughout this time of disaster,” the location learn.
Moreover, the hub has compiled a listing of assets and hyperlinks for members, together with the place to search out mutual support, data, security tips, momentary housing, animal shelters, monetary help, transportation, psychological well being assist, childcare and meals reduction.
SAG-AFTRA joins a number of different leisure associates who’ve pledged monetary support, together with the Movement Image Tv Fund, Will Rogers Movement Image Pioneers Basis, Annenberg Basis and Wasserman Basis and plenty of extra.
As L.A. is an trade city, loads of above- and below-the-line staff have misplaced their houses. Amongst them are actors like Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Billy Crystal, Kate Beckinsale and others.