Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students apparently were in no mood to listen to Hornig's reasoning. While about 40 protesters remained inside University Hall, 150 blacks manned a picket line outside. In a separate line, farther away from the building, some 300 white students marched in support of the minority students. Inside, the polite and well organized students gave the deans sandwiches; in return, just as if it were friendly competition, the deans took the students' phone calls...
...turbulent '60s, students frequently went on strike to protest such weighty matters as the war in Southeast Asia, the draft or national political problems. Last week students at Brown University took to the picket line to speak out on what is strictly a campus affair: the school's projected budget cuts and the lack of any student voice in the decision to slash expenses...
Spartacus League representatives led a picket line while protesters chanted, "NLF won't stop now; onward to Saigon right now," and "All Indochina must go Communist." About 50 Greek Cypriots marched up and down the street carrying signs reading. "Turks-NATO Out of Cyprus...
...Pearey has taken big risks: working in color, he has made a film that is polished without being slick; concentrating on faces he has handled an intensely emotionaly issue without getting sentimental or manipulative. When you see a grower, John Giumarra, ride out to the picket line to confront the UFW on a golf cart with dollars signs painted on the sides and front, you suddenly remember that he put those dollar signs there--not a director. Fighting for Our Lives is filled with moments like that. No one had to hire extras to play sheriffs in Kern and Tulare...
...stakes involved in the fight over the fields. And after nearly an hour of watching these people take the enormous risk of walking out of those fields and organizing--getting up at 3:30 in the morning to stake out the fields for scabs, standing for hours on sweaty picket lines, learning that the growers want only profits from their labor and that the Teamsters are willing to oblige--when Joan Baez sings, at Juan's funeral, it's hard to be cynical...