Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WILLIAM JAMES HALL--Members of Carpenters Local 40 chose yesterday morning to picket outside William James Hall, criticizing what they termed "unfair labor practices" by the University in the white monolith's renovations...
...serious look at parallel worlds, a proto-Star Trek, and was upset by its evolution into what he calls "a silly sitcom." Since then he has appeared in plays, films and other TV series, most recently as the ethical Judge Henry Bone in the acclaimed (and just canceled) Picket Fences. He remains puzzled by television, however. Says Walston: "Good, thought-provoking shows come along, attacking social issues, and yet the major part of the audiences don't want to think--they want to be amused and entertained...
...impolite--and that was the point. "I'm pumped up," said Campos as she returned to the hotel to join a noisy picket line. "I feel ready to take on the world. I'm finally doing something instead of just talking." What Campos and more than 1,000 participants have done is sign on to the AFL-CIO's "Union Summer," a program designed to attract campus and community activists and channel their thirst for social justice into the long-moribund labor movement. Modeling itself on "Freedom Summer," the 1964 effort by 1,000 college students to register blacks...
...anti-abortion activists believe that a fetus is as human as you and me. Abortion for them is murder, plain and simple. And Medicaid funding of abortion is nothing less than state-sponsored execution. If you believe that, how can you not picket abortion clinics and fight for a Constitutional amendment? If murder is happening in America's hospitals every day, how can you not fight to stop...
...temporary workers cannot or will not cross the unions' picket lines, Yale's physical plant may fall into disrepair as bathrooms go uncleaned and paths unshoveled...