Word: picketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over 600 students and several faculty members surrounded classroom buildings yesterday with picket lines. They were asking students not to attend classes until the university meets their demands, which include a reorganization of the school's policy-making structure...
...Picket Lines...
...students will form picket lines set up around all classroom buildings on Columbia property, at Barnard, and at some graduate schools. Tactics for the strike have been left up to individual picket captains...
Cheerfully parodying an old Bell System slogan as he led 200,000 telephone workers to the picket lines two weeks ago, Communications Workers of America Boss Joseph A. Beirne allowed that "the voice with a smile will be gone for a while." And so it was-at least among the grim-faced installers, operators, linemen, repairmen and clerks out on the streets last week...
...news: picture power. It bears not only on the question of riots but on every news event in which TV with live coverage (in color), turns reaction into action. To what extent have strikers, angrily airing their grievances on TV, caused other union men to hit the picket lines? Have scenes of racist mobs screaming insults at Negroes in spired white viewers to march for civil rights? What would Stokely Carmichael's influence be without his exposure on TV?* And how many suburbanites, after seeing a white housewife firing her new rifle at a target in her basement, bought...