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NEU activist ROBERT POOLE reflects on his first day on the picket line last week and the need to continue to build the union
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NORMALLY I spend my time documenting and recording other people’s pickets for the website I co-founded a couple of years ago, www.strikemap.org.
We list every strike and picket that we can and then encourage people to send messages of solidarity or make a trip to visit a picket.
But on Wednesday last week the tables were turned and I found myself standing outside the school in which I have worked for eight years setting up my own picket line in the dark and drizzly rain.
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