To raise awareness about the diner's role in history, Mr. Zilka organized Diner-Rama, which meets in a different region each year.
He also propagandizes them to reject, totally, the premises and functioning of modern society — he rejects organized religion, consumerism, moralism, pop culture, supermarket food, diner food, and the compromises of big politics.
They started a Yahoo Group, Out in the Ozarks, that organized various gatherings for gay people, like breakfasts at a local diner.
More than 5,000 people have signed a petition to Save the Thru-way Diner, a Facebook site with hundreds of members has been organized to protest the closing, and community groups have appealed for reason.
When a local diner barred him and his friends, because, the owner said, they didn't order any food, he organized a boycott.
When the country's Game Fund organized raids on restaurants serving the birds, the media coverage was roundly negative, leading with an account of food being pulled from the hands of a pregnant female diner.
The meeting was organized by Larchmont/Mamaroneck Local Summit, a 14-year-old group that has battled for programs for immigrant day laborers, preschoolers and affordable housing and holds monthly conversations at the diner about social issues.
Both Mr. Brown and Ms. Warren, who has been introducing herself to voters with organizing meetings and occasional visits to diners and small businesses around the state, are expected to step up their campaign appearances in the coming weeks.
Rachel Kennedy helped organize the petition and spearheaded efforts to landmark the diner.
The same group that organizes the biannual dineL.A. Restaurant Week, when restaurants around the city present diners with special set menus, is now launching Happy Hour Week. .
Instead of the sit-ins he used to organize, Mr. Royal is approaching executives at Coca-Cola, whose headquarters is here, to help pay the cost of keeping up the diner.
