Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left its mandate largely undefined. The committee then took upon itself the responsibility of drawing up tactical plans for ratification by later mass meetings. Within a week, the strike steering committee was in deep trouble. Enough moderates came to a mass meeting to vote down proposals for further obstructive picket lines around University Hall, and to pass a motion calling for political action to be directed outside the University, and reducing the strike steering committee's power to negligible proportions. The steering committee splintered over the issue: a majority of the committee voted to reject the mass meeting's decision...
...Veterans' Hospital in Los Angeles. He visited a Utopian colony in Paraguay after the war to gather material for his senior thesis, and ended up staying thirteen years until the colony went out of business in 1961. He and his wife organized an obstructive but non-violent picket line at Port Chicago, California, from which 90 per cent of U.S. ammunitions for Vietnam are shipped, and maintained it for 800 days despite official pressure, police harassment, and arrests. A second series of raids by federal authorities "convinced me that if I wanted to stay free I'd best stop being...
nineteen relating to the May 11 picket line...
...committee decided that students do not have to obstruct individuals or even to be present in picket lines during particular obstructions in order to be punished for obstructive picketing...
...sentences (two years suspended suspension) and the regulars were simply warned. Unable to co-opt OBU, the university hoped to isolate it to death by scaring away any potential new members. The CRR's political stance has preserved itself through the current strike. Its decision to disregard the Friday picket line around University Hall and charge the "hard core" who returned on Monday indicates that they are less interested in dealing with the official charges of tactical disruption than they are in singling out those most committed to those tactics...