voices from passing vehicles, however, was substantial.

That picket line was composed of many BVWU members, but included members from other organizations such as SEIU Local 49, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Working Families Party, and the Coalition of Graduate Employees. At other rallies, members of the Carpenters and the ILWU have also provided support, and on some occasions the Carpenters have set up a grill to provide would-be Burgerville customers with free and tasty alternatives. The Oregon AFL-CIO has also expressed support for the union, and numerous community members without union affiliation have also backed the Burgerville workers.

Friday’s action marked the BVWU’s deepest incursion yet into Southeast Portland. Despite Burgerville management’s often retaliatory tactics against members, the BVWU continues expanding its numbers and the scope of itsα-SMA, and (iv) a proliferation marker, such as Ki67. Collocation of these different markers within hypertrophy clusters can be explained by the coexistence of several HSC populations in these particular areas. HSCs are versatile cells in their ability to acquire different phenotypes during liver injury: quiescent, activated, dedifferentiated in myofibroblasts. Even in a healthy and uninjured mouse liver, the HSC population has been reported to be heterogeneous, with a subset of the total HSC population expressing markers of early HSC activation^[@CR19]^. This leads us to propose that during the onset of liver fibrosis, a reorganization of the tissue occurs, accompanied by heterogeneous storage of retinoids, giving rise to a particular phenotype of hypertrophied HSCs.

The next challenge will be to decipher the underlying mechanisms and signals that lead to