Animation Guild | We are 839 Digital Magazine
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16 KEYFRAME left: (l to r) TAG President Jeanette Moreno King, TAG Young Workers Committee Chair Nora Meek, and TAG Director of Communications Alexi Drosu; above: TAG members gathered to socialize, network, and learn more about getting involved in the Guild. TAG volunteers pitched in to organize, orchestrate, and help with everything from face painting to supervising fair games to cleaning up at the end of the day. Just past the check-in table, TAG ME members welcomed people by sharing how they can get involved in essential actions like member outreach through phone and text banks. Once into the vast parking lot area, TAG members and their families mingled with friends and colleagues, as well as browsed the committee tables, meeting committee leaders and members who shared information about their groups' missions. Inspirational speakers rounded out the afternoon. Standing on the bed of the L.A. Fed truck in the blazing sun, Andy Garner- Flexner—a member of the Negotiations and IATSE DEI Committees and Co-chair of the Queer TAG Committee—greeted the crowd with a call and response: "I say union, you say power!" That power was felt in the full roster of speakers: AFM President Stephanie O'Keefe; TAG Field Rep and Political Organizer Leslie Simmons; TAG President Jeanette Moreno King; TAG Business Rep Steve ON SATURDAY, JUNE 22, HUNDREDS OF TAG MEMBERS BRAVED A HEAT WAVE TO GATHER AT AFM, LOCAL 47 IN BURBANK FOR THE TAG TOGETHER FAIR AND RALLY TO STRENGTHEN OUR UNION COMMUNITY IN THE LEAD-UP TO NEGOTIATIONS. Kaplan; Writers Craft Committee Chair Mairghread Scott; Storyboard Committee Chair Jake Hollander; Negotiations Committee Chair, Testing Committee Co-Chair, and head of the TAG Captains Program Danny Ducker; and TAG members Dana Terrace, Gracie May, and the event's leader Davey Cummings, who thanked all the volunteers for their dedication in making the fair and rally a success. Photograph by Brent Noll. Photograph by Brent Noll. S O C I A L H O U R