The spark for the formation of the Detroit 300 citizen force was the rape of a 90-year-old woman in her home in 2010.
For many years, Upstate New York was treated like a second class citizen, forced to watch Downstate thrive as the Upstate economy dwindled.
That citizen force is about to be unleashed again, and this time, it will be in support of the most critical environmental vote of my lifetime: passing clean energy and climate legislation in the Senate.
During World War I Australia's contribution to the fighting came from forces raised outside of the citizens forces that were in existence at the time, and although many citizen soldiers enlisted in these forces, the Citizens Forces units remained in Australia.
It has generally refused to compensate its war victims and has even avoided paying veterans benefits to Korean citizens forced to fight in Japan's defense.
South Korea's supreme court has also ordered Mitsubishi to compensate its citizens forced to work in the Japanese company's factories during the second world war.
New York issued the proclamation calling for a Continental Congress, and its citizens forced the resident royal governor to take refuge on a ship in the harbour long before independence was declared.
In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort to gain freedom for his slave, a woman who easily "passed" as white.
According to what "Western officials" told the Times, the fraud included ballot-box stuffing, citizens forced to cast their votes at gunpoint, corrupt election officials and security forces complicit with corrupt candidates.
UK citizens forced to return from overseas might have problems over entitlement to benefits, including job seeker's allowance, universal credit and pensions because of the habitual residence test.
