civil law, for pickets who are acting in connection with an industrial dispute at or near their workplace who are using their picketing peacefully to obtain or communicate information or persuading any person to work or abstain from working. However, many employers seek specific injunctions to limit the effect of picketing by their door if they can evidence a high likelihood of intimidation or, in general, on non-peaceful behaviour and/or any that significant numbers of the picketers are or will in all likelihood be non-workers. In the US, any strike activity was hard to organise in the early 1900s, but picketing became more common after the Norris–La Guardia Act of 1932, which limited the ability of employers to gain injunctions to stop strikes, and further legislation to support the right to organise for unions. Mass picketing and secondary picketing was outlawed by the 1947 Taft–Hartley Act. Some kinds of pickets are constitutionally protected. Viewing laws against stalking as potentially inconsistent with labor rights of picketing, the first anti-stalking law of the industrial world, made by California's lawmakers, inserted provisions that disapply many of its protections from "normal labor picketing", which has survived subsequent amendments. See also BCGEU v. British Columbia Bed-In, peace campaigns by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 Bandh Dharna, fast undertaken at the door of an offender Die-in Gherao, a kind of picketing practiced in India and Nepal Hartal, Indian word for strike action. Human Be-In Lock-on Occupation (protest) Occupy movement Raasta roko Sitdown strike Teach-in Work-in References Further reading Ascione, Alfred M. "The Permissibility of Picketing in New York." St. John's Law Review 14.1 (2013): 25+ online Corso, Joseph J. "The Protection Accorded Picketing by the First Amendment." Akron Law Review 2.2 (2015): 3+ online External links Community organizing Labor relations Protest tactics Signage