He got involved in the civil-rights movement, organizing lunch-counter sit-ins and bus-desegregation demonstrations, as early as 1960, throughout the South.
The Weinstein Company, the U.S. distributor of "The King's Speech," is not counting its golden chickens yet, though; especially faced with competition from "The Social Network" and its big-in-the-barnyard producer, Scott Rudin, it is still campaigning hard, organizing lunches and screenings for key Academy members.
So she started sending emails to other people and organizing lunches.
He started a campaign with the hashtag #SaveCafeEdison and organized lunch mobs, causing several hundred New Yorkers to swarm the place for matzo-ball soup.
Students organized lunch strikes in a suburb of Pittsburgh, where in late August the hashtag "brownbagginit" was trending on Twitter, and outside Milwaukee, where the Mukwonago High School principal, Shawn McNulty, said participation in the lunch program had fallen 70 percent.
Over the past couple weeks, diehards, hoping to reverse course on the restaurant's imminent doom, organized "lunch mob" eat-ins, started a petition, entreated the mayor and the City Council, launched a social-media campaign, and staged a protest.
So he returned to Nashville, where he organized lunch counter sit-ins, got arrested and met a theologian, Jim Lawson, whose teachings about Gandhian nonviolence had a profound effect on him.
Go to the gym, swim, shop, visit friends, go/throw parties, organize lunch and dinners and hit the clubs!
As a teen-age seminarian in Nashville, Lewis attended nonviolence workshops, organized lunch-counter sit-ins, and took part in the first Freedom Rides, constantly risking arrests, harassment, and beatings.
– Organizing lunches, dinners and snacks for the judges and referees.
I sort my next five days of designing and jewelry-making for the many projects we have going on, including a fine jewelry line and Bing Bang, and simultaneously dodge the onslaught of texts and emails, the making of meetings, the breaking of meetings, and organizing a lunch with our Mom before she heads back to Virginia.
