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“I’m Rosie the Picketer,” said Stevie Nelson, a SAG-AFTRA strike captain who wore a blue denim shirt and a red bandanna resembling Rosie the Riveter outside of the Netflix building on Van Ness Avenue.

The union sent out a news release this week asking people to boycott three hotels where violence had flared against strikers, including Hotel Maya, where a picketer was recently punched in the head during a chaotic altercation at a wedding.

On the other side of the fence, a man in a black shirt — described by the union in a tweet as a hotel guest — runs up to a picketer and pummels him on the side of the head.

The former “Top Chef” contestant acknowledged that, after a protester flipped him off on the last morning of his stay, he used a metal spoon to break the picketer’s drum.

To entertain the swelling crowd, the unions have set up a karaoke station beneath a canopy where one picketer is belting “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes.