Enter B.D.S., an international lobbying movement that advocates Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian territories — a demand that caused a furor in another unlikely enclave of Brooklyn last year when members of the Park Slope Food Co-op rejected a motion to boycott Israeli products.
In campaigning for the return of Benin art objects to the Oba of Benin, the movement lobbies British institutions, particularly those in Labour-controlled municipalities.This lobbying raises political and cultural problems for politicians and curators in Britain.
On the left, despite overwhelming support from Democratic-leaning Hispanic groups, the labor movement lobbied against the bill, convinced that it would depress wages for its members.
After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons.
Speaking at an ICTU regional conference in Derry, Trainor said the entire union movement must lobby the Public Prosecution Service to drop prosecutions against these women.
Magnet schools, the home school movement, the lobby for school vouchers and charters have come from parents who wanted a choice in their child's educational plan.
The railroads, naturally, took advantage of their monopoly power to charge high freight rates, and farmers fought back by organizing the Granger movement to lobby state governments for stronger economic regulation.
Adani's travails, which include having commonwealth environmental approval for its mine overturned in the federal court last month after a challenge by conservationists, have prompted attacks by the federal government and the mining lobby on the environment movement.
The Postdoc Network listserv, sponsored by Science's Next Wave, holds the promise of becoming an electronic forum for a grassroots movement to lobby for change in this employment predicament.
The movement to lobby the Fed has yet to gain much traction in Congress.
