Now, the onetime movers of mountains are mounting a movement, together with the children of another America, to keep those mountains where they belong.
Because of his military mind-set, Mr. Musharraf failed to calculate, Mr. Gauhar said, that the chief justice would mount a popular movement of lawyers against Mr. Musharraf.
There was no time to mount a draft movement for an exciting political outsider, someone like Patrick Fitzgerald, the white-knight federal prosecutor.
Inspired leadership is crucial to any process of nation building, and Africans should look to figures such as Bolivar, Martin Luther King, Georges Padmore, WEB Dubois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Cheikh Anta Diop to mount a resistance movement against their mostly corrupt and incompetent leaders (a Herculean task, indeed).
Coupled with American advances into northern Baghdad, the advances appeared to place American commanders in a position to mount a pincers movement that could give them control of both sides of the river in central Baghdad far sooner than some commanders had predicted, presenting the Iraqis with the loss of the core of their capital city barely three weeks after the war began.
To mount a successful movement, you need large numbers of people with the time and skills to mobilise; they need to self-identify as a group; and they need to have a motivating ideology or clear goal, often a negative one.
Yet when all seemed hopeless, Twitter brought together a group of headteachers to mount an opposition movement to the EBC.
Beginning in March, thousands of the country's lawyers mounted a protest movement after Musharraf suspended the Supreme Court Chief Justice.
"If such a thing had happened four or five years ago, the newspapers could have mounted a social movement," he said.
Fed up with Wall Street's stranglehold on our political system, community groups around the country are mounting a protest movement to stop the epidemic of foreclosures.
