Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Idleness and disorderly conduct is a very vague charge and it is one that is under a lot of question these days," Hernandez said, adding that standing in a picket line "is not what I'd call disorderly conduct...
Most of the BAARD members said before the arraignment that they expected the charges to be dismissed because Cambridge police neglected to read the Riot Act or warn the protesters that they would be arrested once they stopped circling with picket signs and joined arms...
Swanson, who was arrested earlier for participating in a sit-in at a Boston post office, said she knew she would probably be arrested for the sit-in but had no intention of being taken in by police when she decided to picket Saturday...
Most of the demonstrators were immediately arrested after they broke from the picket line, joined arms, and began chanting "Hug against the draft." Police then moved in immediately and shoved the protestors into a paddy wagon parked several feet away...
...small fight broke out and police jumped in to arrest everyone involved, including the Polish freedom fighter. "The problem is that if they want to protest, they have to be prepared to let other people join them," one policeman said after the scuffle was broken up and the picket line reformed...