Another is organizing a block watch.
"One investor asked me: Is there a war in Holland or did the Communists take over the country?" said Frans Faas, an investor advocate in the Netherlands who is organizing a block of bondholders to challenge the decision in the Dutch courts.
The next thing I knew I got in touch with one of my wonderful neighbors, Jody, and we and her kids went door to door and up and down our street organizing a block party.
Concerned about the young men loitering at the end of their street, Mr. Brown and Ms. Lee-Sebastian, next-door neighbors, decided to take the advice of the police and organize a block club with other residents of the 8100 and 8200 blocks of South Winchester Avenue.
He had come to Brooklyn to organize a block party, held on Monday night in front of the factory, to kick off the national distribution of his Mammarella line, which includes pasta sauces and olive oil and until recently was not sold on the East Coast.
Amid the protests and demonstrations following the death of Freddie Gray, Will Barton of the Denver Nuggets organized a block party at a basketball court in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday.
Join a group, do volunteer work, organize a block party and get to know your neighbors.
People like Lester and Susan Fenner, who, in 2006, helped me organize a block-wide sidewalk sale, only to see it blossom into an annual and much cherished tradition in our development.
The charges included destroying property and organizing a crowd to block traffic, crimes allegedly orchestrated while he was under house arrest.
A year later, in a trial that many legal experts described as a sham, a local court convicted him of destroying property and organizing a crowd to block traffic while he was under house arrest.
Local officials in Linyi had kept him, his wife and their daughter under house arrest and intense harassment even after Mr. Chen, who is blind, had finished serving a four-year prison sentence for property destruction and organizing a mob to block traffic in 2010.
