Martin Sheen joins hotel workers’ Royal York picket line

[Kadie]

Martin Sheen joins hotel workers’ Royal York picket line



Jasmeet Sidhu and Jayme Poisson
Staff Reporters

Hollywood star Martin Sheen joined the picket lines outside the Royal York Hotel Friday morning.

“We will not cross your line and if you want us to leave the hotel we will,” Sheen told the cheering picketers on behalf of himself and his son, actor and director Emilio Estevez.

Wearing a sign reading “On strike for justice Unite Here,” Sheen told the Star: “I’ve been a union member all my adult life. I’ve been involved in labour struggles all my adult life and I support it.”

Sheen walked with each of the three pickets around the entrances to the landmark downtown hotel which has been hit by a one-day walkout at the start of the Toronto International Film Festival.

“I know it can get very difficult with labour struggles,” Sheen, a long-time social activist, told the strikers.

“I’m here to remind you that lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.”


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[Brickbat]

1. Awesome.

[onehandle]

2. Bartlet for America. nt

[demosincebirth]

3. I remember him marching with farm workers in the sixties. Big supporter of Labor!

[monmouth]

4. Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Harry Connick, Jr. and the list

goes on (forgot to mention Jolie)are really good people. Ticks me off when I hear nasty remarks about the "Hollywood elite." These people deserve a lot of credit and appreciate. Sean Penn has been in Haiti for over six months..

[applegrove]

7. Yup. They are good eggs.

[whathehell]

5. He's a great guy....n/t

[county worker]

6. I grew up with him. We became liberal for the same reason.

My cousin married his brother. Both are dead now. Last time I saw him was at my cousin's funeral. We went to the same Catholic high school were we were taught social justice. We use to caddy at Dayton Country Club in Dayton Ohio. We were treated like shit by most of the members. They didn't allow Jews to be members either.

[Orsino]

8. Best. President. EVAR. n/t