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Glossary
Picket - A group of people who stand outside a workplace during a strike persuading other workers not to enter.
Strike - When people refuse to work until their demands for changes have been met.
Dystopia - The opposite of utopia (an imaginary vision of a perfect world). The term dystopia comes from Greek and literally means bad place.
CGI - Computer-generated imagery.