Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief criticism of SDS is its emphasis on working outside of the political institutions, prefering to picket rather than support sympathetic candidates for office, to jeer at McNamara or Goldberg rather than to encourage a Vance Hartke or Mark Hatfield. Republicans, on the other hand, believe in the wisdom of working within the institutions and have often proven its success. Yet the Club members who pulled last week's travesty violated this principle in making a mockery of the SDS elections. In so doing they immediately tossed themselves in the same political category as the people with whom they wanted...
...spokesman for the Students for a Democratic Society said that plans for a protest never got off the ground because of the CIA's early cancellation. But he added that if the recruiters had come they probably would have been greeted by a picket line. Another possibility, he said, was for a large number of SDS members to request interviews with the recruiters in order to "give them a lot of flak...
...file, was the question of how a new union might help the BGMA members if a strike ever became necessary. BGMA officers believe that the prospect of a strike at Harvard is extremely unlikely. They contend that the University would do virtually anything to avoid the embarrassment of a picket line marching around John Harvard's statue. But the problem of a strike came up frequently in encounters between the business agents of prospective unions and the BGMA membership...
...stages of organizing they stood outside the hospital from 6:30 to 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. several days a week leafleting and talking with workers as they came on duty. They also attended all the evening union meetings and advised on strategy. They manned the picket lines and stirred up support for the movement among various professional men, clergymen, and Jewish organizations in the community. But about the only material aid that SDS could contribute was the use of its mimeograph machine...
...Protest Protest. In the U.S., for all the attention won (and sought) by their picket lines, petitions and protest marches, political activists on campus number at best 5% of the student bodies at such traditionally cause-conscious universities as Chicago, Columbia or California. At the majority of colleges and universities, there have been no student demonstrations against anything. At Shinier, a small (enrollment: 500) liberal arts college in Illinois, the undergraduates recently staged a rally to protest the lack of protest...