He said he was fired; the organization said he resigned.
After nearly 850 deaths and a dozen broken cease-fires, the organization's 40-year armed struggle for Basque independence had ended.
"This proposition has really lit a fire under the organization," he added, referring to the new theme.
More than 350 structures were set on fire a week ago, the organization said Tuesday, noting that, according to a local politician, at least 20 people were killed in the attack.
This guy was from the volunteer fire department, the organization that puts on the parade each year. .
The campaign, which went viral last week using the hashtag #STOPKONY, came under fire for the organization's spending practices as well as the film's over-simplification and, at times, misrepresentation of the current situation in Uganda.
Projects failed, workers were fired and the organization was victimized by vandalism and arson.
Sudan's forces detained four United Nations peacekeepers and subjected them to "a mock firing squad," the organization said Monday, calling the intimidation part of a strategy to make it nearly impossible for aid agencies and monitors to work in the region.
According to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by Ms. Banach in State Supreme Court in Manhattan against the Dedalus Foundation — formerly known as the Motherwell Foundation — she was fired from the organization, where she was a board member and held various positions, because of authentication disputes about the artist's work.
In rapid-fire succession, the organization suffered the resignations of two of its guiding lights cofounder Jamie Zawinski and Netscape veteran John Giannandrea amid complaints that Netscape, under AOL, wasn't offering the group much support.
On August 8, 2010, Banister was named the Pirates' interim bench coach after Gary Varsho was fired by the organization.
