In 1963, a full century after the Emancipation Proclamation, a group of African-Americans, including James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, and Lorraine Hansberry, met with Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, to press the Administration on civil-rights issues.
She said the vast publicity given by the Greek press and broadcasters to terrorist groups' proclamations is a major source of encouragement for their continued activity.
Lior endorsed a book that discussed when it is right and proper to murder an Arab, and he and a group of kindred rabbis issued a proclamation proscribing Jews from selling or renting land to non-Jews.
The key source for the Gore proclamations is Families USA, a group that is pushing for an expansion of government health insurance.
The Protector's agrarian policy and proclamations were inspired by a group of intellectuals sometimes called "the commonwealth men".
Just 15 years later, in 1888, a group of frustrated veterans gathered to condemn, by proclamation, "indulgence in public sports, pastimes, and all amusements on Memorial Day".
A riot in Rome in the following December led to French occupation of that city on February 15 , 1798 and the proclamation of a republic by a group of Italian patriots.
Michael Knights, a fellow at the Middle East Institute, told VICE News the dual proclamations had a clear intention coming from a group as propaganda-oriented as IS.
In February the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a coalition of militant groups, released a proclamation threatening war.
Within 24 hours, Al Qaeda, in an Internet posting viewed round the world, boasted of its role in attacking the "crusaders and their midgets". But in the small print of the group's proclamation, Al Qaeda declared that the attack had actually been carried out by three separate groups: the Attack Brigade, the Rockets Brigade and Al Baraa bin Malik Suicide Brigade.
As it turns out, Ron Paul was one of the signers of the group's proclamation to "end government involvement in education". Then there were the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, which during those years was engaged in an epic battle between conservative and moderate factions.
