This movement's tactics appear more subterranean; instead of relying primarily on elected representatives, the court system, or K Street to achieve their aims, they have mobilized decentralized networks of activists who are organizing demonstrations in their local communities to protest police abuse and to call attention to institutional racism.
The group's contributions to local and statewide organizations have been numerous and include making donation quilts, sponsoring Community Quilt Days, providing quilt demonstrations, and participating in local cultural festivals.
Watson took his idea to Angus council and staged a demonstration in a local park.
The head of the opposition PSDB party, Aecio Neves, and several of his colleagues were insulted by protesters when they took part in the demonstration in Sao Paulo, local media reported.
Like protests in other parts of Turkey, the demonstrations in Ankara merged local grievances with broader complaints.
It was not long before he joined in local demonstrations.
Over recent months students and teachers have participated in local demonstrations and lobbies in surprisingly large numbers.
After the death of Franco and especially after the establishment of the liberal Spanish monarchy in 1975, the Basques engaged in vigorous demonstrations for local autonomy, which the Spanish government granted in some measure in 1978 79.
Anger exploded into several days of demonstrations in the neighborhood, drawing in local elected officials, anti-police activists and other protesters from around the city.
"I'm involved in local antiwar demonstrations," he said last week, "and I've been involved in marches for peace in the Middle East".
