Early that morning, Perez-Roura, of Radio Mambi, had sent Evilio Cepero, a local activist who sometimes worked for him as a reporter, to broadcast from the scene.
She got talking to a local activist who was campaigning for a socialist group during the general election.
The same day Sarah Burke and Holly Meadows-Smith attended the Women's March in Oakland, a local activist group put a call out for volunteers to help build temporary housing for the homeless.
For years, a local activist has driven around with a Graham effigy stuffed headfirst into a toilet, leading a brigade of self-styled "RINO hunters".
"We hated them for this," Ahmad, a local activist said, "They came, did nothing of use to us, they didn't even talk to us, but we still got punished".
Patrick told me to google "Portland Nazi cop," referring to Captain Mark Kruger, a police officer famous among local activists for placing a tribute to fallen Nazi soldiers in a public park and using excessive force against peaceful protesters.
It was in February, too, that Batasuna leaders won the support of thousands of local activists for a proposal for a new process of talks over the future of the Basque country that would require Eta to give up violence.
In Idlib, rebels accused the authorities of targeting civilians working on the fall olive harvest when an airstrike hit an olive press "filled with people," killing at least 20 and wounding 50, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in Britain, and the Local Coordination Committees, which rely on local activists for their reports.
They can, though, push for two big things which would give local activists for democracy and market capitalism in Africa a better chance of success.The first would be to press governments to double no, treble the sums they are giving to help fight the diseases that are plaguing so much of Africa and undermining its social and political institutions.
Two activist groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, and the Local Coordination Committees, which rely on local activists for their reports, both said the strike exacted a heavy toll on civilians, making it only the latest in many such attacks that have caused casualties among noncombatants in Syria's grinding civil war.
