Long-Distance Picketing: Wave of the Future?
Grocery Workers Protest at Home of Safeway CEO--sort of. Unfortunately for them, he lives in a gated community
from KPIX/KCBS
Wed Jan 28, 4:01 PM ET

Ann Notarangelo

Hundreds of grocery store workers marched on the Alamo estate of Safeway's CEO Wednesday

Some religious leaders from Southern California joined the group in asking for Steve Burd to end a bitter strike in Southern California.


The marchers were stopped about a half-mile from the gates to Burd's home, but later, a delegation of five clergy members were allowed to deliver messages from the union members and their supporters.

Full story here
Thanks to the redoubtable Fred Pilot for the tip to this story. Police, process servers, picketers, presidential candidates...nobody can get into these places. The mighty waves of democracy are crashing into vapor on the gates of private communities--is that about the size of it? There is a French Revolution smell to this whole thing. I wonder what the name of this place is...Thermidor Acres? Robespierre Place? Girondin Gardens?