> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>> So the great man will be scabbing on the union projectionists,
>>> will he?
>
>> Astra looked into this and sought extensive counsel before agreeing
>> to show the film at the IFC Center. The projectionists don't want a
>> union. There's no picket line and no boycott.
>
> There certainly was a picket line and boycott in August when I wanted
> to watch Darwin's Nightmare. And it certainly seemed like a much
> more solid boycott than the informational pickets in front of the
> Garden of Eden we discussed earlier this year (and which you were
> absolutely against crossing, iirc) <snip>
There weren't any pickets the last several times i was on that block, going back to September. I'm planning to have lunch (unless the weather is as miserable as it was today) at Pearl Oyster on Friday, and I'll check again. I noticed last week that the info pickets are still at Garden of Eden.
john mage