Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of their allies on the picket line were not so lucky. After first appearing at a protest Tuesday, where they lay down and formed a partial barricade of the Central Square post office, the remains of a hardy squad of unemployed Christmas trees showed up again over the weekend to make their political beliefs known...
...People at Harvard are definitely against registration; they just have not come out," Marshall said. Several protesters said sub-freezing temperatures have kept picket lines short...
...gave her a "suspended suspension," but did not notify her until a week later. That day the picket wound around Holyoke Center, where the hearing was taking place. "At that point, so many people were on suspended suspension that everyone had paper bags with Dean May's face on them over their heads," Hemphill recalls. She joined the picket, but failed to bring proper masquerade attire. Someone spotted her and notified CRR, in session on the tenth floor. It decided on the spot, Hemphill's tutor later told her, to knock her penalty up one notch from "suspended suspension...
...existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by any appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate and publicize opinion by print, sign and voice...
...Local 877 of the International Union of Operating Engineers stood outside the giant Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). When it got really cold, the engineers and operators huddled in one of their co-worker's cars with the heat going full blast. But when they were needed--to picket the entrance where the pipe fitters went in or to convince the Teamsters not to deliver oil to the plant--they forgot about the cold. The workers stood their ground until the police told them to "move or get arrested" or they grew hoarse from yelling about a University which...