Martin Sheen joins Royal York strike

Best president ever! ... Wait.

This post has all the glib snideness and proud ignorance that will make Robyn Urback a great Maclean's columnist when they let her out of the oncampus barracks. Anyway, even though it's just the trolling of professional blogs to increase pageviews, I'll bite and try to explain why what Martin Sheen did is quite practical. Whatever motivations Urback could divine for it, it increased the prominence of the picket line, producing the situation for an article that more people will actually read because of Sheen's name in the headline. Visiting a picket line with support and/or supplies is part of what having a picket line is supposed to engender.

And then Urback ends with a tired "lol celebrity activism is so dumb they just pick up signs amirite." Nothing in this case suggests that and as you showed, the strike is not very difficult to explain to people passing by, or even celebrity guests.

Thats pretty cool that he did that. :) I hope all of the support helps resolve the dispute.

In the video the G&M has up Sheen says he's talked to all the actors staying at the Royal York and they've all agreed to stay elsewhere if the union asks them to. He's doing more than strolling around with a sign, Robyn. It's great that he's supporting those workers.