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“I didn’t picket for over three months just for incremental change,” said showrunner Marc Guggenheim, who was picketing outside the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank on Friday.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

His parents, too, long worked in hotel housekeeping; his father was picketing at a nearby Ritz-Carlton, he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023

"I support the writers because as actors we are only as good as the writing we get," said Rob Lowe, who was picketing with his son, writer and actor John Owen Lowe.

From Reuters • May 3, 2023

She refused to cross a picket line that was picketing a theater showing a play about her.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2021

The “departure” that Blatch, other suffragist leaders, and particularly Alice Paul came up with was picketing, a tactic that Blatch and Paul had seen used effectively when they had aided British suffragists.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler