A SURPRISE PICKET

Picketing the Church of Scientology© since May 10, 1997, for Objectionable Management Practises.

Toronto Ontario Canada. June 7, 1997.

On Saturday June 7, 1997 from 2pm to 5pm an Information Picket
was held at the Toronto Org of the Co$ on Yonge St.

The Picket came as a total surprise to the Org.

Subject: Toronto Picket Report
by 'Artemis'.

PROLOGUE:

Saturday dawned with Toronto recovering from a summer thunderstorm.
My radio was playing Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, great music to get me moving.
I started by doing the weekly laundry task, and while it was drying, I sat on my balcony and watched the Org.

For those of you who haven't seen it, the org is a 8 floor building, and all except the middle 1/3 of the ground floor is Scientology.

The building is rather decrepit looking, probably built in the sixties some time, and it has air-conditioners hanging out of windows, rather tatty looking blinds hanging from some of them and plastic bags of something up against many windows.
On the south side of the building, the only side with no windows, there is a large 'pixelboard', animated display.
This isn't owned by the Co$, they apparently rent the space out, and then buy back adverts, usually at cheap times.
The typical advert is "Dianetics|As Seen on TV|700 Yonge V", where V is a downarrow.
These adverts are exclusively seen at the cheap rate time, I.E. the times when the board contains adverts for itself.

There is a short rain shower at about 11am, but this quickly clears up.

The weather for the rest of the day was perfect, dry but overcast so we didn't have to stand in direct sunlight.