Word: picketer
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...Tonight, instead of picking up their brooms, they’re picking up their picket signs,” said Cynthia R. Kain, a spokesperson for the Service Employers International Union (SEIU), which represents the 11,000 janitors employed in the Boston area...
...year-old Ephram (Gregory Smith) and 9-year-old Delia (Vivien Cardone) and moves to Everwood, Colo., a picturesque burg his wife once passed through and fell in love with. There, he grows a Grizzly Adams beard and sets up a free practice for the quirky folk that Picket Fences and Ed have taught us small towns are full of, while trying to reconnect with his kids...
...history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for René Magritte. "You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris," Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his picket-fence cottage in suburban Brussels. "And in Paris, there was this wild Catalan who was doing all there was to be done with technique. I could tell there wasn't going to be any technique left for the rest of us to invent. So that's when I decided I was going to paint ideas...
...don’t want to see [Harvard University Professor] Bill Wilson on the street with a picket in his hand—I want to see him analyzing what people are doing,” he says. “We can’t all be blessed in as many arenas as Professor West...
...spectacular example of student protest at the College since the 1969 University Hall anti-war sit-in. Since then, the protesters who occupied Massachusetts Hall have scored an important and necessary victory: workers’ wages have increased significantly. But most of the unions have since put down their picket signs and concluded deals with the University, leaving the liberal student activists searching for a new cause. The heady days of Tent City are gone, and the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) is struggling to redefine its purpose. Its recent activities, including a bake sale and rallies for security guards...