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It started with Aaron Douglas, who plays Chief Tyrol in Battlestar Galactica: he announced that he'll take a fan to a Canucks hockey game. Then Mary McDonnell, Tricia Helfer, Michael Hogan and Michael Trucco offered to phone a fan each. And you may feel that Jamie Bamber has trumped the lot - or thrown in the towel.
For Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama is signing and donating three towels he's worn in the series - from scenes where he didn't wear anything but a towel.
The cast are doing this to draw public attention to the Hollywood writers' strike - and that is despite all of them being suspended without pay while the dispute continues. So they're firmly on the writers' side and of course you are too. But whether you're a Battlestar fan or not, you can support the strike by joining the Pencils2MediaMoguls campaign. You're urged to send a box of pencils to people like Rupert Murdoch and the studio heads but, nicely, the campaign's buying in bulk in your name and shipping them by the lorry load. So it only costs you a single dollar and the studios get swamped with trucks.
But if you choose to, you can state on your pencils that you're supporting a particular writer or show. So if you label yours "BSG Aaron Douglas" or "BSG Jamie Bamber", the objects of your affection will get to know about it, and you'll be entered into a prize draw too.
Note that calls and the towels are unrestricted but the hockey game depends on you making your own way to Vancouver. Douglas says if you can't, he'll sign some memorabilia and call you too.
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