Thursday, November 19, 2020
Be An #ArtsHero Open Letter to the U.S. Senate Gains 16,000 Signatures
www.broadwayworld.com: Be An #ArtsHero, a grassroots sector-wide lobbying movement for Arts & Culture workers has received over 16,000 signatures on Co-Organizer Matthew-Lee Erlbach's Open Letter to the Senators of the 116th U.S. Congress. The letter, which has been shared more than 30,000 times, represents a unified, sector-wide call for economic relief for individual Arts workers and Arts organizations.
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I am amazed by the continued fight that live entertainment employees, companies, and venues have to do just to be able to pay our bills and earn a living. Letter after letter has been written, phone calls made, and in person conversations, and where are we? Still not where we need to be simply because Mitch McConnell won’t allow for the House passed stimulus bill to get any consideration in the Senate. To people like McConnell, the Arts are seen as a hobby and since Arts organizations are not the big GOP corporate donors that McConnell caters to, we are often the last ones thought about. It’s a sad reality that major companies got funding through the PPP and independent venues got shafted. Now we are facing another blow. At the end of the year, many programs will expire including a federal moratorium on evictions. What has the Senate done? Rushed through a Supreme Court appointment. The speed shows that the Senate can act when it wants to, and that in the case of Arts funding, it doesn’t want to.
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