Word: picketting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed small and partisan. In Cleveland, only about a fifth of the crowds at the city's annual All Nations Festival gathered to hear Dr. Michael Pap, director of the Soviet Institute at John Carroll University, denounce the "psychological victory for the Soviet Union." Near by, one lone picket carried a placard protesting FORD'S SURRENDER OF THE BALTIC NATIONS AT HELSINKI...
...Benevolent Association accepted the layoffs, though with bitterness and threats of work slowdowns. Firemen called in sick in record numbers. The sanitation workers, with the token protest but implicit approval of their union leadership, illegally left their jobs, promising to turn New York into "Stink City" and shouting from picket lines, "Wait 'til the rats come...
...Newspapers rejected their advertising, the Chicago Transit Authority refused to display their posters, and a clutch of American Nazi Party members showed up to picket. Nonetheless, some 750 delegates of the American Communist Party managed to get together at Chicago's swank Ambassador Hotel for their first convention in three years. "Some people have said that we should love this country or leave it," intoned California Delegate Angela Davis, "[but] we are going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting...
Groves of pines and evergreens outlined the expansive terrain of the polo grounds and little white picket fences defined the performing areas for the riders...
...those early days, she says, staff members became good friends suddenly, "the way you do on a picket line." They started the Real Paper, after all, because they had been on a picket line together--at the old Phoenix, where they once went on strike against publisher Richard Missner. Missner and the strikers settled after the paper was shut down for a week, but a couple of months later, in July 1972, Missner sold the Phoenix to rival publisher Stephen Mindich of Boston After Dark. Mindich wanted only the Phoenix name and a staff member of two; he bought...