Following Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, protestors have descended on Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
Hundreds of union actors and writers marched on the Walt Disney Company’s Burbank headquarters Thursday in protest of ABC pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “indefinitely” over comments the host made about Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin.
The protest, organized hastily by the WGA and the Mutual Aid Network and supported by the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity, swelled outside the main gates of the studio’s HQ.
Demonstrators held up signs decrying the company for their decision to remove Kimmel from the air. Some poked fun at the company’s famous IP. One sign read: “Who knew Mickey was MAGA?” It was accompanied with a drawing of the famous mouse.
Synchronized chants rang out: “Kimmel stays, Trump must go!”
Chantelle Piper, an organizer with the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity in Los Angeles, said the group was joining the WGA “for this important emergency protest to support Kimmel and call out how the First Amendment is under attack right now. Not just under attack – it’s being slaughtered. It’s important that people came out today.”
While there were a few dozen folks outside the gates of the Disney Company’s corporate headquarters, just outside the Team Disney Burbank building, with its famous columns of Seven Dwarfs, Piper said that, at the protest’s peak, there were around 300 people there.
