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TREATY TO GRANT NEW RIGHTS TO PERFORMERS WORLDWIDE images and likenesses, actors will have important tools to protect themselves around the world. This rising tide can liſt the boats of all actors worldwide," said Co-Presidents Ken Howard and Roberta Reardon. Although the effort was started in the SAG-AFTRA has helped achieve a significant victory with the adoption of a global treaty that extends important rights to actors and other audiovisual performers. At a June 26 ceremony in Beijing W orking with the International Federation of Actors (FIA), resolved, the treaty can move forward. For it to take effect, it must first be ratified by at least 30 parties, a process that is expected to take a year or more. The SAG-AFTRA participants in following five days of meetings, about 60 countries signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances. "Actors and other audiovisual performers have long needed the crucial protections of this treaty, and now we can finally have them. With new rights to proper compensation for the use of our work and control over the use of our late 1990s, it was stalled for years over disputes between artists and producers over some of the language contained in the treaty. With those differences 19th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS ® CALENDAR 2012 SEPTEMBER 10 Deadline for Nominating Committee members to make address changes OCTOBER 1 request paper final ballots in lieu of online voting Period begins for members to OCTOBER 25 the FIA delegation included National Executive Director David White, Senior Advisor John T. McGuire, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, then- Assistant National Executive Director and Chief Labor Counsel Thomas Carpenter and National Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Terrie Bjorklund. Also representing SAG- AFTRA was Senior Consultant Robert Hadl, who also served as a member of the U.S. government delegation. SAG-AFTRA PREMIERES AT JOURNALISTS' CONVENTIONS B the country this summer, premiering SAG-AFTRA as one strong voice on behalf of broadcasters. In late June was the 37th annual National Association of Black roadcast and EEO & Diversity staff and committee members returned to two of the largest gatherings of journalists in here for photos Click Journalists Convention and Career Fair in New Orleans. With more than 2,000 journalists attending from across the country, the SAG- AFTRA booth provided career counseling, reviews of personal services agreements and information on a variety of important issues necessary to prepare attendees for the challenges of today's complex and multiplatform newsroom. "As a seasoned broadcast journalist of color, I find the convention offers a unique opportunity for working professionals and aspiring journalists to share our success stories and how we approach some of the challenges we oſten have in common," said Catherine Brown, SAG-AFTRA national vice president, broadcasters. In early August, SAG-AFTRA had an even larger presence at UNITY Journalists Nomination submissions due at SAG-AFTRA by 5 p.m. PT NOVEMBER 21 Nomination ballots mailed NOVEMBER 30 2012 dues and/or changing address with SAG-AFTRA to be eligible for final balloting Deadline for paying November DECEMBER 10 elections firm by noon PT; records pulled for final balloting Nomination ballots due at the DECEMBER 12 Nominations announced DECEMBER 31 Final ballot information mailed to members 2013 JANUARY 14 Final day for members to request paper final ballots in lieu of online voting JANUARY 25 Final ballots due at the elections firm by noon PT JANUARY 27 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ® Inc.'s Quadrennial Convention in Las Vegas. In addition to an informational booth, SAG-AFTRA presented a panel moderated by member David Ono, a news anchor at ABC-7 in Los Angeles, and featuring San Francisco member and CBS-5 reporter/ anchor Joe Vazquez. Also participating was SAG-AFTRA's Assistant National Executive Director, News and Broadcast Mary Cavallaro. The panel featured information of value to the working lives of broadcast journalists in today's newsroom. Visit sagawards.org for the latest awards updates. SAGAFTRA.org | Fall 2012 | SAG-AFTRA 17