Word: picketer
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...Santa Fe, New Mexico. My parents have always been “activists.” For most of my life they have worked, in one capacity or another, for labor unions and the workers who join them. Thirteen years ago, they took me to my first picket line. The strikers I walked with won their struggle, and ever since, I have been, as my parents would say, “In The Movement...
...into iTunes so they are unable to shop where they want," rails Napster CEO Chris Gorog. Maybe, but for the Europeans among iPod's 2 million users worldwide, iTunes' arrival is music to their ears. France's Real Power Brokers France likes its picket lines. Strikes creating overcrowded subways or undelivered mail rarely dampen public support for striking workers. But sympathy sank last week when power workers cut off electric supplies at Paris' main train stations, stranding a half million angry passengers. After this fumble, the strikers are now scrambling to rally public opinion. In the northern city of Lille...
...soul-music fans and leg men, TINA TURNER is already a goddess. But ISMAIL MERCHANT'S casting of Turner as a Hindu deity in his upcoming film The Goddess has outraged some British Hindus, who plan to picket the movie. (Did they learn nothing from protests against The Passion of the Christ, which did not exactly dent ticket sales?) Having Turner play Shakti--the personification of a female divinity who wears a necklace of men's skulls--reduces the goddess to a "musical joke," says a Hindu group. Of course, some who saw Turner's last try at a dramatic...
...nomination for Best Actor; in Los Angeles. Winfield was known for his portrayals of dignified authority figures, most notably Martin Luther King Jr., whom he played in a 1978 TV mini-series. He won an Emmy Award in 1995 for his role as a judge in the TV series Picket Fences...
...returns to her heated conversation with Trager, having answered her own question. When else would these two exchange words, except from opposite sides of a picket line...