Word: picket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...railed against the "virtual whitewash" on network TV. In private he was just as confrontational. "I don't like this diplomacy s___," he whispered to an aide before a meeting with CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves in August. "We should just bring out the picket signs, bar the doors, get arrested and make the 6 o'clock news...
...N.A.A.C.P. officials in Baltimore over the past couple of weeks, the four networks are close to an agreement to implement a series of diversity initiatives, while the N.A.A.C.P. has all but dropped its boycott threat. Mfume seems to have realized that old-line civil rights tactics of boycotts and picket lines hold less sway on the Left Coast than power lunches and air kisses. What finally worked was the same back-room conciliatory politics that made Mfume a force on Capitol Hill for a decade. "Network TV will never again look like it did this fall," Mfume told TIME...
...between choruses of "Cambridge Tenants Rise" (to the tune of "Jingle Bells"), group members with picket signs stopped pedestrians to explain their cause, hand out pamphlets and collect signatures...
...buying the math. Alarm about imports tends to ebb and flow with the economy--less in good times, more in bad. So how, in the best times ever, did the World Trade Organization become the global bogeyman? No earnest college kid ever hitched across the country to carry a picket sign against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the WTO's predecessor, although its function was similar. It took decades for the CIA, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations to achieve their places in the pantheon of political paranoia. The WTO has joined them in just...
...institution that is the logical outcome of his own business-friendly, pro-trade policies. But there's a lot more to this spectacle than the irony of the demonstrators of yesteryear now finding themselves playing the guys in the Brooks Brothers suits on the wrong side of the picket line...