Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims. All of them are "neighbors from hell," but the old residents are revealed to have done the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. And so Dante, like the viewer, is left straddling a white picket fence, perched between admiration and an urge to move out of this neighborhood pretty darned quick...
Local 26, under the skilled guidance of local president Dominic Bozzotto, has been one of those powerful forces--one that refuses to remain quiet. After the union authorized a strike by a 2034 to 112 vote, Bozzotto warned management that if forced to strike, Local 26 would not simply picket the hotels: "We won't be outside on the street" he told The Boston Globe, "we'll be inside, in the hotel lobbies, the dining rooms, the meeting rooms...
...union chapter reportedly had a strike strategy which included lists of employees willing to volunteer for "arrest" duty, hour-by-hour plans for sit-ins at hotels, and demonstrations in the communities where hotel owners lived. It is one thing for hotel owners to ignore a picket line outside his hotel, but if strikers march in front of their home or handcuff themselves to a hotel staircase, disrupting business, they will begin to worry...
When paperworkers in Jay, Maine stepped up their strike against International Paper (IP) last year, they didn't only picket the corporate headquarters of IP; they also picketed the headquarters of Coca-Cola and Bank of Boston, because both companies had a corporate board member who also sat on the board of IP. Making such corporate incest clear to the public demonstrates the structural problem of American capitalism: that a handful of isolated individuals are controlling the economic destiny of millions...
MAINSTREAM VALUES: this is an expression used to conjure nostalgic images of the nuclear family and a dog living in a house with a white picket fence down the street from the Cleavers and the Nelsons. These are also the values of the wealthy, protestant, heterosexual white males who are fighting to preserve cultural hegemony in the United States. "Mainstream values" are antithetical to the Equal Rights Amendment, affirmative action, reproductive rights, civil liberties, and civil rights for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. This is CULTURAL OPPRESSION...