Sentences with phrase «a picket»

Tens of thousands across the country peacefully chanted, picketed and protested Monday against President Donald Trump's immigration and labor policies on May Day, despite a small pocket of violent unrest in the Pacific Northwest.

Penney customers were bolting, with no sign of replacements, despite millions spent on new marketing that depicted white - picket - fence Americana with great prices and gorgeous products.

It's no longer about the white picket fence and the big backyard.

Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»

But what a lot of people don't consider is that we have watched our own mothers and fathers work their entire lives, slaving away for the American dream, only to obtain the house with the picket fence and still be unhappy.

Take a look at how people celebrated, protested, and picketed at May Day celebrations around the world this year:

A board member and spokesman for the Quebec civil lawyers» and notaries» union — Les avocats et notaires de l'État québécois, or LANEQ — he tried in vain in May to find members who were willing to share their first - hand experiences on the picket lines during their historic four - month general strike, the longest in Canadian public service history.

On October 22, there were coordinated protests, where some Uber drivers across the country picketed and also shut off the app and refused to serve customers.

However, the last time that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees walked out for a one - day strike in November 2013, UC San Diego Medical Center and Thornton Hospital, now called Jacob's Medical Center, moved 171 medical procedures, including 100 elective surgeries, to different days as a reported 840 employees picketed near both facilities.

Airport and fast - food workers are expected to be joined on picket lines by child care workers, home care workers and graduate assistants, who are among the estimated 64 million U.S. workers who earn less than $ 15 an hour.

The Hess gas station's Facebook page suggested this 50th anniversary year was the perfect time to include its toy truck, and Raggedy Ann fans in yarn wigs picketed for her inclusion in 2002.

These supporters joined the picket lines to take a stand for a fairer and safer workplace.

We're up to our eyeballs in debt, and even our cute little houses with the white picket fences are about to crumble to dust in a U.S. style meltdown.

Family Research Council is about as tolerant as the Westboro Baptist Church (the Phelp's who picket soldiers funerals, and Dio!).

[there is very little talk about «belief» and the talk is mostly about elections, criminal prosecutions, end - times hucksters, picketing funerals, congressional misdeeds, presidential lack of belief..

I also wouldn't care enough to picket it and insist that they're trying to force a belief onto me.

The rally has been a catalyst for protests by the Westboro Baptist Church, a group well known for its picketing of funerals of American servicemen and servicewomen.

I rank this right up there with the Religious Zealots that picket the funerals of Service Members to combat gays in America!

Good luck crossing that picket line.

So I threw away my picket signs, tried to love everyone, & avoided making any polarizing stands.

It means that we've got ta bust through the gates or the picket fences or the walls that we build up between nations and we've got ta find the alien and the immigrant, the stranger, the hurting, the homeless and learn their names.

When we have those nuts at Westboro Baptist picketing soldier's funerals, spitting on homosexuals, and making videos about how Santa is a fag and will send you to hell, we catch a glimpse of what happens when abhorrence of evil combined with confrontation consumes and destroys love, catapulting them into realms of hatred that Jesus would fall down weeping at the sight of.

You don't picket someone who sells a different brand of automobile than the one you drive.

Their interest in local and national politics is intense: They picket regularly for pro-life causes, enroll their children in debate clubs that argue for conservative political ideas, and rally for Bush in the 2000 election.

Finally, as a last resort, it would picket, boycott, obstruct and paralyze unjust political and economic structures.

I think it's safe to say that pro-choice and pro-LGBT people are so incredibly hostile towards religious groups is because you don't see LGBT or Pro-choice people standing out in a picket line in front of churches like you would church groups in front of abortion clinics or gay parades.

They picketed at courthouses, searched out potential registrants, taught in freedom schools and served as librarians and receptionists in freedom centers.

Did not Jesus urge us to turn the other cheek rather than picket, to refuse to «resist one who is evil» rather than boycott unjust companies?

Add grief to grieving families by picketing funerals of victims for his personal popularity.

Folks from Fred Phelps» church in Kansas picketed our church, and one of their signs said exactly that and was greatly in need of painting over with a rainbow.

I dream of a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direct action that will dare to pray and picket, evangelize and blockade until Americans can no longer ignore the way our affluence is built on poverty and starvation abroad.

Mixed in were those who wanted to picket — or party — at Phelps» funeral.

The next time a university fires a professor for holding religious views, picket the administration building.

He had marched, he had picketed, he had campaigned, he had voted the right way.

Do I picket any place of worship, no, do Baptists picket abortion / family planning clinics, yes.

Creating a culture of life isn't just about standing in a picket line with a «Choose Life» sign.

Really, what we want is people to guard the picket line of acceptability.

White picket fences and model families!

In part because although liberation rhetoric has increased in the form of statements, resolutions, protests, pickets and boycotts, church - people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the poor.

To gain entrance to a corporation head and insist on discussing his workers» plight with him is much more difficult than to march in a picket line, for it requires much more in the way of intelligence, ability, precise information, and strength of soul.

They have picketed my church, called me a «lying whore false prophet,» and I've written a widely read obit on Fred Phelps.

Then picketing quickly expanded to wherever my father could get the most attention.

You are even picketing outside of churches and sending people in to invade them during their worship services, violating their sacred space, because they don't live up to your «standards».

It started with hateful, filthy faxes to the local community, then picketing in Topeka.

Legion protesters carried pickets outside a screening in Chicago, but five hundred moviegoers had to be turned away — as with Gay Divorcee, the downside of telling folks not to watch something.

-- Never picketed in my life.

He said that while his wife was reading a New York Times piece about the controversy at Princeton over Singer, «she looked up and said, «These are the same views as you have — why aren't they picketing your classes?»

That was one of the picket signs carried by 26,000 striking teachers this week in...

Phelps is only the most infamous because of their funeral picketing.

Well, well... I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but I think in this case there should be an exception... Calling on all of those grieving family members and friends of all those that this group decided to picket their funerals... Now is the time to come together and give this lowlife and his followers a dose of reality.