Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SANE's protest against the Framingham bomb shelter entered its second week yesterday as picket lines formed again in front of the Massachusetts State House...
...detail here; I invite the interested to read the speeches on Civil Defense of Senator Young and Governor Meyner of New Jersey and the SANE memorandum on the Framingham shelter, posted in the TOCSIN office, basement of B-entry Quincy House. (I invite them as well to join the picket line next Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. in front of the State House.) Robert Weil Chairman of TOCSIN
Responding to the lead of southern integrationists, a crowd of nearly 100 braved below freezing temperatures to picket the Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Boston yesterday afternoon. The picketing, sponsored by EPIC, was part of a nationwide Lincoln's Birthday protest against theatres in the ABC-Paramount chain--a chain that operates segregated theatres in the South...
Despite the sometimes shabby appearacne of the picket lines and the tattered condition of some of the home-made signs, the demonstraters maintained a high level of enthusiasm. They sang steadily through the two and a half hour demonstration, creating an old-time revivalist atmosphere. Favorite selections included "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "We Shall overpower," and Pete Seeger's "This Land is Your Land...
...Picket organizer Harvey Pressman, teaching fellow in History, said he would protest the "very restrictive and hostile attitude of the police...