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My friend Counterpunch created a thread a couple days ago. He made some Anti-Kerry signs. Said he was working on making them bigger. Well...Here is that thread. Anyways. I made them bigger for everyone to enjoy! Feel free to use these on your Web site Counterpunch! Take these to rallies! Copy these, and paste them into Microsoft paint. Then print em out! They don't look bigger when you click on them...but trust me...once you've pasted them into paint they fill up a piece of paper perfectly!!!! Click on this link for a HUGE SIGN! Click on this link for a...

The drill is pretty simple during a labor strike. Get some picket signs and park yourself in front of your place of employment, be it a factory, office or construction project. ... in progress? That's the situation faced by Teamsters Local 120, which went on strike ...

Send in the clowns. Here come the clowns. Yeah, the four-day Democratic Party convention will begin at Boston's FleetCenter on July 26, 2004. Oh wait, it's supposed to be a serious event, I guess. Perhaps that's why they imported those hundreds of extra hookers and the Boston Police have instructions to allow them to sell their wares unimpeded. But, darn, it's hard to take this convention seriously when the lead speakers remind me of a Bart Simpson quote: "Didn't do it. Didn't see me do it. Can't prove anything." To start off the show, they've got Hillary introducing Bill Clinton....

New York Police and Fire Unions to Picket G.O.P. Events By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: July 24, 2004 The presidents of New York City's police and firefighter unions sought to turn up the heat on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in their contract battle by threatening yesterday to picket various subsidiary events during the Republican National Convention next month. Borrowing a tactic from Boston's police union, New York's police and firefighters warned that if the unions do not reach a contract before the convention begins, they might picket parties and receptions for Republican state delegations. Stephen J. Cassidy, the president of the...

Some Dem Delegate Chiefs Say: No Crossing Picket Lines Gov. Wants Dispute Over Before Convention POSTED: 7:28 am EDT July 16, 2004 UPDATED: 7:30 am EDT July 16, 2004 BOSTON -- Several Democratic chairmen from around the country are urging their state delegations to honor Boston police union picket lines during the Democratic National Convention. The union is promising to picket any parties or other gatherings where Boston Mayor Tom Menino is scheduled to attend. The Boston Globe reported that the heads of the California, Ohio, Tennessee and Maine delegations have written letters or phoned members asking them to boycott...

Bus Drivers Say They'll Picket Convention Picket Lines Could Cause Dilemma For Kerry POSTED: 9:50 am EDT July 7, 2004 UPDATED: 9:53 am EDT July 7, 2004 BOSTON -- More potential labor problems for the Democratic National Convention. The union representing about 1,200 Boston school bus drivers told the Boston Globe that some of its members plan to picket outside the FleetCenter during the convention. Unlike the unions representing police and firefighters, the school bus drivers are not technically considered city employees, since they work for a private contractor that provides school bus service for Boston. The drivers have been...

Kerry Cancels Speech, Honors Picket Line Saturday June 26, 2004 10:46 PM By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry may cancel plans to speak to the U.S. Conference of Mayors rather than cross a police officers' picket line. Kerry spokesman David Wade told reporters Saturday afternoon that Kerry would not give his scheduled Monday morning speech because of protests at the conference. Later, Wade said the campaign was monitoring the situation and still hadn't decided whether he would speak. ``He's never crossed picket lines in his time in public life,'' Wade said. Boston...

Unions tell Kerry not to cross picket lines Friday, June 25, 2004 11:07 AM (Boston - AP) — The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association has a message for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry: Don't cross our picket lines when you come to town on Monday. The union is promising to picket events associated with the US Conference of Mayors taking place in Boston over the next several days. Kerry is scheduled to speak before the municipal leaders on Monday. But police union president Thomas Nee says they want Kerry to honor their picket lines. The police union has been working without...

An eerie calm prevails at the FleetCenter By David R. Guarino Thursday, June 24, 2004 With convention construction already $5 million over budget and three days delayed due to a picket line, all was amazingly quiet inside the FleetCenter yesterday - 33 days from DNC D-Day. Convention organizers and Mayor Thomas M. Menino say construction's on schedule. But, to the naked eye, the FleetCenter is far from ready for Sen. John F. Kerry's big event. Workers have taken out seats to make room for the convention stage and steel has been added to the ceiling to help light the ceremonies....

A month ago, when Hillary Rodham Clinton was announced as the speaker at this Saturday's Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, most of the Democratic presidential candidates cried foul. At the time it was seen as an attempt by a potential competitor to steal the spotlight on a night that the Deans and Kerrys and Liebermans viewed as their own. To counter any overshadowing, the Kerry and Dean campaigns have shelled out about $30,000 each for placards and other signage for supporters to wave and hold during the dinner and the speeches. Clinton doesn't have a campaign, but some supporters in...

Mechanics for the nation's third-largest public transportation system went on strike Tuesday, forcing hundreds of thousands of commuters to scramble for alternate transportation for the second time in three years. Metropolitan Transportation Authority mechanics walked off the job after midnight, and bus drivers, train operators and other workers were honoring picket lines. The move - which came on the heels of an unrelated strike at the region's groceries - shut down buses and trains that an estimated 500,000 daily riders count on to get around Los Angeles County. "I'm just stranded," commuter David Strattling, 59, said early Tuesday. "I won't...

I have the misfortune, and opportunity, to have Harry Reid as one of my senators. Misfortune because he truly DOES NOT represent me more than 2% of the time. Opportunity, because he maintains an office only a few miles away. This morning I learned that he is allowing the liberal ***'****'s of his party to "filibuster" yet another of Pres. Bush's judicail nominees. This time they are out to block the confirmation of Bill Pryor. My respnse was to call Harry Reid's office and tell them that if the "filibuster" blocking Bush's appointments is still in place on the fourth...

<p>April 3 — Shifting protests against the war in Iraq to a new level, a San Francisco group says that it will set up a picket line Monday to block supplies being shipped to U.S. forces fighting in Iraq. The group, Direct Action to Stop the War, said will attempt to “shut down the war merchants” at the port of Oakland by urging members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to not cross the picket line.</p>

From the Boycott Block Committee BoycottBlock@earthlink.net http://KeepAndBearArms.com/BoycottBlock/ I just saw my first TV ads for H&R Block this weekend. It's their ramp-up season. And now the time is ripe for a little delayed justice. You may recall last year when H&R Block initiated an "affiliate program" offering to make a donation to the NRA for every NRA member who came in to have his taxes prepared. It's a standard arrangement they offer to any interested membership association. H&R Block was immediately attacked and threatened by the gun-ban lobby with a March 16th picket. In a craven surrender, Block reneged on...