Word: picketer
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...picket lines—manned by workers ranging from secretaries to custodians to dietary workers—began on the day Yale’s dormitories opened to upperclass students...
...YORK—I began the summer on a mission to acquaint myself with New York City. To anyone who knows me, this may seem like a redundant task. The quintessential city girl—scared of wildlife and wary of white picket fences—I’ve lived most of my 21 years on this tiny island and profess my love of it to anyone who will listen. But after three years in Boston and a summer in Russia, it seemed that my city and I had grown apart...
...showed me the fun of a garden on a warm summer day and the airy feeling of a wide, sparsely-populated city boulevard. And a weekend rummaging through the basement and attic of my grandparents’ Kansas City house made me reconsider the possibilities that lurk behind picket fences...
Tweak a few details, and the scene painted on The New York Times Op-Ed page last month could have been a cut from the movie about the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) occupation of Mass. Hall two years ago. “Students confronted picket lines, hunted for meals off campus, picked their way past uncollected trash and wondered when graduate-student teachers would return to class,” the piece read, describing a strike at a prestigious Ivy League university...
...these early stages, the art has taken the form of soundboards in hallways, open-mics in dining halls and banners and picket signs carried in rallies...