Two women representing the Bushwick Berners, a grassroots organization mobilizing for Sanders in North Brooklyn, stood adjacent to the ticket counter, hunched over a fold-out table crowded with signage, stickers, a donation jar, pens, voter-registration forms, and pamphlets.
In 2006, the organization mobilized roughly 100,000 members to call Democratic-leaning voters who had a history of only showing up intermittently at the polls.
It was achieved in breakneck speed through focusing the research targets, revamping an existing organization, mobilizing leading scientists, and accessing sufficient capital.
So liberal groups, including several Latino organizations, mobilized against Estrada and began examining his past for ethical missteps that might be used to stop his confirmation.
Among them is America Votes, a 527 that serves as an umbrella for several dozen liberal organizations mobilizing for voter turnout efforts.
This was despite a number of dramatic breaking news events last year, including the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which media organizations mobilized considerable resources to cover.
Page A12 THE MEDIA'S SMALL ARMY News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and online volunteers to scan the 25,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin that were released.
News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and even recruited online volunteers to scan more than 24,000 pages of e-mails from Sarah Palin that were released on Friday, prompting some critics to accuse the news media of overkill at best and vigilantism at worst.
The E.R.A. was ratified by 30 states within a year, but the ratification process slowed as anti-E.R.A. organizations mobilized, like the conservative activist Phyllis Schafly's Stop E.R.A. Anti-E.R.A. activists warned that the amendment would deny women privileges such as exemption from the military draft and the ability to be supported by their husbands.
As Utting (2005) mentioned that several environmental disasters, linked to large companies or specific industries, became high-profile international issues around which activists and non-governmental organizations mobilized.
