• Entertainment Labor for Palestine New Member Registration Form

    Intake questions are mandatory and any forms that are incomplete or contain incorrect information will be rejected. For security purposes, we communicate via the encrypted Signal app. If you don't have Signal on your phone, please download the app before filling out this form.
  • Union Affiliation (if you don't belong to any union and don't intend to, please select "No Union")*
  • Do you have a leadership role or role on a committee within your union?*
  • Do you know anyone (else) in our organization?*

  • Priority Roles to Fill

    While anyone with a familiarity with the entertainment industry and passion for changing it for the better is encouraged to apply, we are specifically looking to fill the following roles currently:

  • TRAINING FACILITATOR

    Role description: An experienced organizer with strong leadership and people skills to facilitate internal leadership trainings and workshops.

    Responsibilities:

    • Design, implement, and evaluate organizer development initiatives in alignment with our mission

    • Facilitate trainings and/or workshops to support Committee Chairs in their leadership functions

    • Foster organizer engagement and resilience programs

    • Oversee development of crisis response, deescalation, and bias trainings

    NEWSLETTER MANAGER

    Role description: A writer/editor with deep knowledge of up-to-date operational security practices to plan missives and organize our email list. Familiarity with Action Network is a plus.

    Responsibilities:

    • Oversee a monthly newsletter which communicates important updates and fosters inter-organization connection
    • Collaborate with designers, writers, and Committee Chairs on the inclusion of deliverables
    • Maintain strict member and database privacy

    SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

    Role description: A savvy social media moderator with a keen eye, knowledgable in content optimization and analytics.

    Responsibilities:

    • Develop organic strategies to grow our social media following and drive traffic to our website
    • Track metrics and advise social media team on content optimization
    • Maintain current links and calls-to-action
    • Manage community interactions such as mentions and collaboration requests as well as monitoring trolling and offensive content

    VIDEO PRODUCER

    Role description: A skilled short-form video producer to develop and oversee content from concept to post-production. A strong political grounding in the Palestinian struggle and/or labor movement is a must.

    Responsibilities:

    • Develop video concepts for social media in alignment with our organizational mission and values
    • Coordinate with Communications Chair and Social Media Manager to integrate video content into campaign strategies
    • Collaborate with copywriters, video editors and designers to create impactful, on-message content

    COPY WRITER

    Role description: Writers with a background in journalism, communications or media activism to create short-form content. A strong political grounding in the Palestinian struggle and/or labor movement is a must.

    Responsibilities:

    • Generate educational pieces, statements,
    • calls-to-action and newsletter items in alignment with our mission and current campaigns
    • Contribute collaboratively to pitching, developing, drafting and editing content
    • Employ diligent research and fact checking

    GRAPHIC DESIGNER

    Role description: Designers that can work within our visual identity to create impactful designs that elevate our campaigns across multiple media.

    Must be willing to work in Figma design app.

    Responsibilities:

    • Work with copywriters to design eye-catching social media posts and stories based on design templates
    • Create bold designs for event fliers and merchandise while consistently applying and maintaining our visual identity
    • Work with video editors to ensure visual consistency across video graphics and text

    LAWYER

    Role description: US-based lawyers needed to support campaign strategy with hands-on advice and provide or facilitate lines of support for entertainment workers in our broader community. Lawyers operating in California are especially needed.

    Specialties sought:

    • Labor law
    • Civil rights
    • Defamation law
    • Entertainment law
  • In general, what is your availability to work on this subcommittee's projects/attend meetings?
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  • Have you signed our open letter calling on SAG-AFTRA leaders to protect pro-Palestine members from being blacklisted?*

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  • (Not Required) Please provide a reference for anyone you feel should join our organization:
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  • Subcommittee Interest

    Below is a short description of each of our subcommittees. If accepted, you will be assigned to ONE subcommittee. We will do our best to assign you to the subcommittee of your choice, but we may be limited due to capacity or other constraints:

  • Comms/Social Media

    • Create copy for all major campaigns that go beyond just social media
      Determine and implement press strategy, handle press inquiries, and do media training
    • Write and make all public statements on behalf of the organization, including speeches, interviews, major social media posts, etc. 
    • Manage press / reporter database and actively make new connections
    • Implement group branding
    • Create, review, and release emails to signees 
    • Determine the appropriate role for the organization’s social media to play, in line with our theory of change 
    • Manage the day to day of all social media including posting, reposting, collabs, Linktree, etc. ensuring a consistent flow of content
    • Conceptualize and implement social media only campaigns (e.g. the historic role of labor in international human rights movements, etc.)
    • Manage communications that come through social media accounts 
    • Coordinate with other subcommittees to run social media for their events / actions, including creating copy, graphic design, etc. 
    • Create connections across social media with individuals and/or groups that could help facilitate organizational goals 

    Events (LA or NY)

    • Conceptualize and implement local and and hybrid events
    • Coordinate with individuals / organizations outside of committee and the organization to implement event ideas, event partnerships, or support their events, consistent with our theory of change 
    • Ensure a consistent flow of events both internally (for community building) and outside of the organization (as it relates to theory of change)
    • Build network of event spaces, vendors, etc. 
    • Keep tight control of all event budgeting 

    Storybanking

    • Create database of employers, people, etc. who are friendly and unfriendly and a system for connecting jobseekers with friendly employment opportunities 
    • Identify relevant stories of repression and movement work in our industry to amplify on our channels / as part of any related ongoing projects, in coordination with the Communications and Press subcommittee 
    • Coordinate with Legal subcommittee on any potential legal action 
    • Coordinate with Social Media subcommittee to draw connections between storybanking and SM’s archives of industry discrimination / blacklisting

    BDS

    • Lead organization’s BDS efforts
    • Coordinate and engage with PACBI to support their BDS campaigns 
    • Conceptualize and implement other industry-based BDS-type campaigns as appropriate
    • Research and develop divestment strategy for industry unions, including understanding of current investments, success from other divestment campaigns, alternative investment options, steps to pursue divestment, and connect with other orgs for support

    Actions/Liasing

    • Conceptualize and implement direct actions led by our organization in line with our theory of change 
    • Create connections and serve as primary point of contact with aligned organizations we want to be in community with (“sister organizations”) 
    • Attend direct actions hosted by sister organizations as representation for our organization and co-host direct actions with sister organizations
    • Amplify direct actions by sister organizations including internally within the organization to encourage attendance
    • Attend trainings, events, other activities of sister organizations or aligned training organizations and inform all organization members of opportunities - lead internal training based on trainings attended 
    • Receive endorsement requests and submit to Leadership Committee for vote

    Member and Administrative Support

    • Create and implement new member intake processes
    • Manage shared calendar, maintain shared files, create zoom link for all meetings
    • Manage shared working projects document
    • Manage organization’s email and respond to inquiries, coordinate with Communications and Press subcommittee as needed for responses 
    • Manage organization budget and seek out and apply for funding opportunities
    • Create and maintain website
    • Serve as backstop “HR” for any members whose concerns cannot be addressed by their subcommittee chairs and implement general feedback process to check in with members on how to strengthen the organization
    • Keep notes from all Leadership Committee meetings and send out to Leadership Committee members after meetings 
    • Collect updates from subcommittees and Leadership Committee and issue regular organization newsletter to all members
    • Manage and moderate general Signal thread

    Cultural Impact Committee

    • Research successful culture change campaigns and implement organization-wide best practices to achieve the organization's goals
      Coordinate with other Subcommittee Chairs to ensure the organization's projects and initiatives align with long-term goals, our theory of change, and the organization's mission
      Lead conversations on updating the organization's Theory of Change and Mission Statements to reflect changing realities as appropriate
      Develop measures and track progress toward the organization's goals
      Ensure cohesion across the organization by facilitating communication between subcommittees.
      Connect with and manage outreach to aligned culture workers to support and amplify their work, and collaborate on long-term initiatives as appropriate
      Identify and coordinate funding opportunities for the organization as appropriate (Temporary)
  • Select your TOP CHOICE subcommittee
  • Select your SECOND CHOICE subcommittee
  • Select your THIRD CHOICE subcommittee

  • Please Note

    For your security, any information submitted via this form will be removed from internal EL4P documents if you do not respond within 30 days of EL4P responding to your application. If you still wish to join afterwards, you will be required to apply again.
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