Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty as well as students--sometimes numbering as many as 1000--marching around the building in support of the occupiers. While the blacks inside the building read announcements and played soul music over a make-shift public address system set up in a second-floor window, supporters maintained a picket line around the building 24 hours a day during the occupation as a safeguard against a police bust. The commotion was so great that some freshmen in Yard dorms adjacent to Mass Hall temporarily moved to local hotels--at University expense...
...sympathy strikes spread rapidly, the dockers warmed to their unaccustomed role as labor heroes. "I cannot understand why I was not taken along to prison with the others," complained Eddie Hedges, a picketer who was arrested but later released by the court. "I've done just as much as them in the picket line." By midweek, passions were cooled, at least temporarily, when the Five were released on the recommendation of the official solicitor, an obscure but supposedly independent official who acts as a kind of legal ombudsman for impecunious Britons...
...strike for five days to protest the Indochina War and to support the Mass Hall takeover. A variety of resolutions passed urging students to participate in local antiwar actions, work for antiwar candidates in the then upcoming Massachusetts Presidential primary, and support the black students by joining the picket line circulating in front of Mass Hall. It also created a central coordinating committee to direct strike actions...
...meeting adjourned without considering whether to picket classrooms or to demand a release from exam or class obligations. This was largely in remembrance of the fiasco that followed the 1970 strike when students dissipated their energies by trying to persuade classmates not to attend class instead of engaging in constructive antiwar activities...
...participated in a march from the Boston Common to Post Office Square. The next day, Saturday, April 22, many thronged to New York to join 40,000 protesters who clogged the streets there in the largest national antiwar demonstration in almost a year. Others remained behind to man the picket line in front to Mass Hall. Still others were out in the hustings for antiwar primary candidates Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) or Rep. Shirley Chisholm...