Last Friday afternoon on a street in Brooklyn, a group of people were picketing. It was over 80 degrees out, and the sun bore down on the group as we slowly circled in front of a gate that provides entry to Broadway Stages, a Greenpoint soundstage where the television show FBI: Most Wanted was in production.

Affixed to the gate was a piece of paper that read: “You are crossing a picket line (cool!)” The site has become one of the recurring picket locations for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East, which is now entering its third week of a nationwide strike. The 11,500 members of the guild and its counterpart on the West Coast stopped working after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down on May 1, with the studios rejecting several key proposals from the writers without offering any counterproposals.

On May 5, three WGA members shut down production on the TV series Evil, which was then being shot at Broadway Stages. Staying until 1:30 a.m., the writers maintained a picket line that members of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) refused to cross. Starlee Kine, who has written for Search Party and Dave, was one of those picketers.