“I was terrified it was gonna bomb,” says striking writer Liz Benjamin, one of The Union Solidarity Coalition (TUSC) members who came up with the idea of an auction in support of the Hollywood writers’ strike. “The night before it went live, I was waking up in the night like, ‘I’ve let people down!’” Nearly two weeks, one strike-ending deal and tens of thousands of dollars later, it’s safe to say this was not the case.
“None of us could have ever predicted we would raise so much,” says Benjamin, who raised $200,000 (£164,000) with the auction.
