Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together for two, three, four days," Santamaria said. "You're not going to cross the picket line because you're going to lose friends...
...that abortion clinic protesters are being unfairly treated because they will lose the ability to protest peacefully. This conclusion is based on the innocent assumption that the Freedom of Clinic Access bill will prevent such protests. The law, in fact, addresses the right of people to "peacefully demonstrate or picket." For Wang to presume that abortion protesters who are actually behaving in a respectable manner will be hauled off to jail because they are protesting an unpopular position is quite a stretch of logic...
Though they have put their picket signs and FCS caps aside, RUS hasn't abandoned its stance against all forms of elitism espoused by the clubs. RUS' conditional support of WAC is an attempt to support WAC's efforts while still adhering to the group's more radical stance on the clubs...
...storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...
Founded by Randall Terry in 1987, Operation Rescue sprang to prominence with a 46-day clinic blockade in 1991 that nearly paralyzed Wichita, Kansas. This year the organization has intensified its harder-edged tactics aimed at clinic employees: wanted posters of doctors, picket lines around their homes, and harassment of their children and neighbors. After one such target, physician David Gunn, was shot to death in March by a man connected with an unrelated but similar organization, "the pro-life movement was on the ropes a little bit," admits Operation Rescue's national spokesman, Patrick Mahoney. Nonetheless, Rescue continued...