The trend was first seen in the early months of 2002, with attacks by local groups with loose Al Qaeda affiliations in Pakistan and Tunisia.
Mr. Ghobadi punctuates these excursions with what are, in effect, music videos, in which songs in various styles by local groups (Take It Easy Hospital is the name of Negar and Ashkan's nascent act) are accompanied by montages of daily life in Iran's sprawling capital.
Efforts by local groups to allow Dominican citizens living in the city to vote in their homeland's 2004 presidential elections are paying off.
It would be alarming if the militants in this attack were in fact assisted by local groups, explained Jennifer Cooke, the director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Power of Stories United We Dream was founded in 2009 by local groups that banded together into a national network.
In December, Chipotle fired 450 employees from its Minneapolis restaurants as a result of the audit, resulting in protests by local groups.
Their example was followed in the United States and Canada by local groups, each of which operated independently.
For now, the kiosk maps are best used by hikers in conjunction with trail maps produced by local groups.
The concerted campaigning by Amnesty and local groups in the US appears to have had an impact, with "unprecedented concern in the USA about the fairness and reliability of the capital justice system".
During this meeting, Smith suggested that he wanted Armstrong to start by providing information about local groups in Cambridge, before progressing on to national campaigns.
