Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commuters along Mass. Ave. from Arlington to Roxbury from 7 to 9 a.m. were greeted by 500 activists spaced at 20-foot intervals holding picket signs reading "Vote Pro-Choice--Vote No on Question...
...film opens stunningly. A blue velvet curtain furls like a stage partition, and in the foreground credits emerge and fade. Bobbie Vinton's "Blue Velvet" wells up, and Lynch gives us a picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with...
Other events planned by the activists duringHarvard's anniversary festivities include a pickettonight at the Charles Hotel, and a picket ofGeorge Shultz during his convocation Fridaymorning
More than 1,000 steelworkers bowed their heads to pray in the McBride Union Hall in Gary last Thursday night before heading to picket the huge Gary Works steel plant. For the first time in 27 years, U.S. Steel, now a division of the newly renamed USX corporation, was shut down. In all, 23,000 members of the United Steelworkers union walked off their jobs at 16 plants in nine states, from Pennsylvania to Utah. The workers insist that the company has locked them out, while management calls the action a strike. By any name, predicts Union Spokesman Gary Hubbard...
Rozanne Weissman, a CWA spokesman, said her union expects IBEW members to honor its picket lines at facilities where both unions represent AT&T employees...