Eschewing better-known Washington types, such as Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and John Edwards, and Congressman Dick Gephardt, keen activists have flocked to the standard of the fiery former governor of Vermont, the only candidate to condemn the Iraq war unambiguously.
Bale, a keen environmental activist and martial arts enthusiast, also starred in American Psycho, Empire Of The Sun and Batman Begins.
George Clooney is a keen Sudan activist and has visited the area several times.
This plan largely worked, and the group is widely thought to have contributed to the Conservatives' victory in May of 2015, by bussing in dozens of keen young activists to places where the local Tory associations were dormant, or mostly populated with pensioners.
Although the secessionists lost September's referendum by 45% to 55%, the SNP has, since then, welcomed pro-independence activists keen to continue the struggle.
Does he think that middle-class community organisers should take a back seat to more authentically angry activists keen on stirring up "mayhem, messiness and conflict"?
Explain this to wine producers, says Mr Kapetanovic, and they become less interested in backing their own ethnic leadership.Mr Kapetanovic has now begun a drive to organise a new cadre of "partisans": key civil servants, businessmen, intellectuals, journalists and activists keen to get into the EU.
A polling day taskforce has been set up by a group of activists keen to "make British Somali votes matter" in Bristol.
Little imagination is needed to figure out who it is the Greek government want to eavesdrop on; successive governments have been keen to link activists, anarchists and squatters with terrorist groups, bank robberies and damages inflicted on property after demonstrations and riots.
