But abolitionists took up the Africans' cause and organized a defense that eventually led to John Quincy Adams, the former president, arguing their case before the United States Supreme Court.
Private Manning's supporters are fusing 1960s-era antiwar feelings with social media to raise money, champion his cause and organize protests.
Besides the symbolic pushback against the oppression that is happening across the border, the event was to provide a place for queer people from across many post-Soviet states, including Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia itself, to draw attention to their cause and organize.
Mr. Yauch (pronounced YOWK), a practicing Buddhist, was also involved in the movement to free Tibet and organized concerts for the cause in the late 1990s, and he and his band mates started an indie record label in the 1990s called Grand Royal.
He started a campaign with the hashtag #SaveCafeEdison and organized lunch mobs, causing several hundred New Yorkers to swarm the place for matzo-ball soup.
Be clear and organized, otherwise this can cause a great deal of stress if you want everything just right.
The hackathon will be held at the offices of Causes, an online fundraising and organizing platform founded by Sean Parker and Joe Green.
Women who had learned to organize politically as part of the abolitionist cause were rolling bandages and organizing medical support.
If my cause is organized and passionate enough, it may build enough momentum to force leaders on the executive level to take notice.
Unlike some other immigrant populations, like the Chinese and the Dominicans, the Mexican population has no large geographical concentration in the city, which undermines its ability to form communities and organize for social causes.
