Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including members of the SYL, shouted him down. Joe didn't show, although at the time he claimed to be a militant socialist and had even told some of his friends that he had joined the SYL! In the spring of 1984, trade union militants in Boston formed mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand in those picket lines. When we called Joseph to come down at 6 a.m. his response was shock and dismay: "You mean...
...actually picket the movie...
Twenty demonstrators showed up at Willard Straight Hall--the Cornell student union--to picket the presence of CIA recruiter Jim Fitzgerald, who had to leave the scene nearly one hour before the Career Fair was scheduled...
...original midnight settlement deadline passed, at least 300 professors led by the group Faculty for a Fair Contract had made arrangements to teach today's classes off-campus to avoid anticipated picket lines...
...plans to tear the place down. Alice wheedles bureaucrats, placates the police, steals substantial sums of money from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence of stench, but not without some dissension. Jasper, demanding cash that Alice does not have, lashes out: "While you play house and gardens, pouring money away on rubbish, the Cause has to suffer, do without...