Word: picketeer
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...nomination for Best Actor; in Los Angeles. Winfield was known for his portrayals of dignified authority figures, most notably Martin Luther King Jr., whom he played in a 1978 TV mini-series. He won an Emmy Award in 1995 for his role as a judge in the TV series Picket Fences...
...returns to her heated conversation with Trager, having answered her own question. When else would these two exchange words, except from opposite sides of a picket line...
...legitimate. Students applying for funding should be subjected to a rigorous application process requiring an explanation of the importance and immediacy of their cause, the specific need to protest rather than pursue other modes of action, and the exact proposed use of funding (i.e. to pay for bus rentals, picket sign costs, etc). Again, the process would be complicated, but the alternative—to exclude the possibility of supporting student protest altogether—would be to deny that protest is a legitimate form of political activity. And ultimately, the IOP should recognize and support the full range...
...voice of 1.6 million members," the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told those who sought his endorsement. "Go talk to them." Only one candidate, Stern says, took him up on it. Howard Dean not only talked to SEIU members, he showed up on their picket line at Yale University, cheered their organizers at a San Francisco hospital and consulted the union's nurses in Iowa as he put together his proposal for solving the shortage in their profession. "Howard Dean didn't start on top," Stern says, "but he certainly ended...
Dunlop served as secretary of labor under Gerald Ford from March 1975 to January 1976, resigning when Ford did not sign a bill which would have enabled unions to picket construction sites more easily...