Picket report Clearwater 5/5/01
I started picketing across the street from the Ft. Harrison Hotel
at 10am. Almost immediately the blonde PI was watching me through a
window. A security guy came out and started videotaping me. The
blonde PI and the Italian PI came out and videotaped me too. So there
were 3 people videotaping this lone picketer, PLUS the 2 permanent
cameras no doubt.
About 10:30 2 more picketers arrived. About 10:45 another, and
about 11 another. So 5 picketers in all. We picketed across from the
Ft. Harrison Hotel until 1pm when we went over to the Coachman
building at Ft. Harrison Ave. and Cleveland St. That went well.
Strangely, as we were picketing, a bird hit a tree or the building
just above us and slammed into the sidewalk right beside a pedestrian
walking by. The bird had broken its neck on something, and died a few
minutes after hitting the ground.
It was a good reasonably quiet day except for the number of video
cameras pointed at us most of the day.
Lots of thumbs up and honks of support.
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05 May 2001
cultxpt@primenet.com (Jeff Jacobsen)
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