Today was day 2 of our daily noon hour picket and they were waiting for us.

Within 2 minutes of arriving security emerged from Eaton's to inform us that they "owned" the sidewalk and that they had people on the way to "remove" us. Having checked on the legalities of picketing and armed with the info about our right to call a boycott - but not having checked about who owns the sidewalk, we decided to move away from right in front of Eaton's - for now.

Approximately 2 minutes later we were practically knocked over by a group of 3 security people who were RUNNING full speed to get to the doors to remove us. Much to their disapointment I'm sure we had already moved so they stood around for about 10 minutes doing their best to look intimidating and pointing at us etc.

Not to be left out of the fun we pointed back and walked right up to their supposed property etc. A passer-by was quite upset they asked us to move and informed us that he was sure that they didn't in fact own the sidewalk. I went over to a pay-phone to call the city and check, but no one was available over the noon hour. We are currently checking into this for tomorrow (tentative inquiries with the city police and the city indicate that they were lying to us, we'll have confirmation later this afternoon) when we will be back to start the fun all over again!

Marjorie Brown
URSU Graduate Issues Coordinator
University of Regina Students' Union
University of Regina
Regina, SK S4S 0A2