Sentences with phrase «as picket»

She meticulously paints the patterns of these «knitted messages,» that function much like other forms of creative direct action such as picket signs, banners, street theater, body painting, and costumes.

I would purchase all of the pickets and the back boards and set up shop in my garage where I would put together my own little picket fence and be so proud of myself and be thinking in the back of my mind that if this whole blog thing doesn't work out I could always start a new career as a picket fence builder!

If you think of the filter as a picket fence, a vertically polarized photon would pass through a gap between two slats.

«Please be advised that there is a labor dispute at the Albany Hilton Hotel, which involves a boycott called by the workers, as well as picket lines and rallies in front of the main entrance to the hotel and surrounding areas,» the memos state.

As Joshua Weishart, an associate professor of law and policy at West Virginia University whose research centers on education law, told me last month, coordinated teacher demonstrations, such as picketing, are emerging as one of the dominant ways for a society to decide what public education will be.

Most noticeably, they realized that 1970s - era tools such as pickets and marches proved ineffective, as evidenced by how easily MoMA could ignore 200 protestors from the Women's Caucus for Art.

If faced with unlawful tactics such as picketing or handbills, we help with relief such as state - court lawsuits for injunctions or monetary damages.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?»

Wouldn't it come as a baffling shock if Christians everywhere put down their picket signs, ceased the boycotts, dropped the Christmas lawsuits, and instead, showered politicians, business owners, and ACLU workers that show disdain for Christmas / Christians with thoughtful gifts, invitations to OUR Christmas celebrations, letters of prayers, (not condemning ones), asking nothing in return?

I was hesitant to go there for lunch today because I expected a bunch of freaks with picket signs outside... but it was business as usual and after a tasty meal, I'm glad I went.

Maybe we who want to embody agape as «creative goodwill» are being called back into action, not this time to man the barricades or even to carry picket signs, but rather to initiate fresh forms of dialogue in parent - teacher - student organizations and town councils.

They were looked upon as a threat to the law of competition; therefore, the bosses hired detectives, ex-convicts, and thugs to attack the picket lines and to open the lines for production.

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It's often measured in financial terms, as in the picket fence and house in the suburbs, or perhaps the building of a profitable business.

Magazines, newspapers, and TV stations gleefully recorded the events as the studio heads and theatre owners were picketed and attackers and supporters tossed their quotable quotes at each other and the press.

The power relationship between students and teachers was not as stark as that between workers and management, and so some students did raise their hands in class to argue that no one should cross the picket line.

As a child of the American dream, I have often felt society's pressure to «climb the ladder,» nab my dream job (if such a thing even exists) and buy into the white - picket fence dream.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

The Guilty Remnant is arguably already among us in the form of groups such as the funeral - picketing Westboro Baptist Church.

Other installments include a briefcase used to address obesity in America, a white picket fence intended as a statement on the American Dream and a «MTA chair» representing the loss of New York's old wooden subway benches.

One week earlier, Ed told the church we would be picketed and to expect the counter protestors and media to be present as well.

Stir in with picket spoon (that's improtant, don't use metal as a result of it reacts with the probiotics)

Most often we accomplished that result by picketing in downtown Minneapolis for the striking truckmen, by announcing ourselves as atheist - humanists, by joining the local Trotskyite cell (Minneapolis was never a Stalinist town) or simply by going to various left - wing meeting places and singing «Solidarity forever.»

On Saturday, an hour before the game, Vernon Breazeale, the chief of the Laramie police force, watched as an orderly group of 134 pickets circled 200 feet from the stadium gate.

A variety of barricades will do such as a pretty hedge, low gate, picket fence or even just dense shrubbery.

Strike action was solid across 17 London bus operators, as Unite members mounted picket lines across the capital bringing buses to a standstill and causing widespread disruption.

He was picketed by religious groups during the 2010 election campaign for his stance on family and parenting issues, which, as outlined in the poll opposite, went down like a lead balloon with some Christian voters.

«Tomorrow, as thousands of public sector workers learn their fates, the one - man scourge of the Tories will not be on a demo, or a picket line, or even in a TV studio.

But on Monday, as Chicago teachers picketed over pay, benefits and other issues, Republicans accused Emanuel of putting politics ahead of the needs of students, and pressured him to step down from his new fundraising role.

During the week, striking assistants were frequently joined on their picket line by members of other unions, such as TWU, CWA, NYSNA and SEIU 1199, said Rosalie Ray, one of the grad student organizers.

Appearing at the ongoing picket of the Hilton Albany as workers seek a new contract, Stewart - Cousins said that having the state party stand up for the Democratic campaign committee is crucial.

[234][235][236] That same month he came under criticism from sectors of the left for urging RMT members to cross picket lines in a proposed Underground strike because the latest offer had been «extremely generous», leading RMT general secretary Bob Crow to step down as a TfL board member.

As for unions, Tristram Hunt does part - time teaching without joining one and recently showed himself willing to cross a picket line of his colleagues at Queen Mary College.

«Publication in a newspaper, or by distribution of circulars, may convey the same information or make the same charge as do those patrolling a picket line.

«As long as it makes legal sense to us and it within the confines of the constitution we shall respect it until then we are picketing on the 16th at the premises of the EC.&raquAs long as it makes legal sense to us and it within the confines of the constitution we shall respect it until then we are picketing on the 16th at the premises of the EC.&raquas it makes legal sense to us and it within the confines of the constitution we shall respect it until then we are picketing on the 16th at the premises of the EC.»

Sir, in addition, have you not been proven right that today, as a result of the lies waged against you, nurses are picketing the Ministry of Health, with others demonstrating to demand immediate placement?

It's embodied by the white picket fence and a narrative that you can achieve anything as long as you work hard enough.

He quoted Capt. Roy Ilegbodu, the Chief Executive Officer of the airline, as saying: «the management apologise to its customers for the disruption of services on Thursday following the picketing of its operations by the unions.»

On the same day as upstate protests, UFT members on March 24 picketed the offices of Republican senators Andrew Lanza on Staten Island and Marty Golden in Bay Ridge to tell them that our public schools — not wealthy charter chains — need their support.

However, union members are being dispatched to picket outside Verizon Wireless stores as a strategic move, as the division is the most profitable business unit of Verizon, explained Elaine Maddox, Chief Steward for the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union Local 1105.

While attending the same event as Ward and Barron on Saturday, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell told the audience that he and Jeremy Corbyn would join junior doctors on the picket line today.

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says that the labour law recognised lock - out and picketing as a tool that workers can use to advance their issues in the...

Some ag industry representatives aren't happy with the events law as adopted but, as with the leash law, the Town Board straddled a political picket fence and there was no way to satisfy everyone.

Sir Paul Kenny, general secretary of GMB, said he would be prepared to go to prison if measures such as fining pickets for not wearing an arm band become law.

To the union's most engaged and active members, those who had organized countless forums, town halls, pickets, and protests to save our schools, this was widely perceived as something of a kick in the teeth.