People presenting grievances in China can fare poorly at the hands of the authorities.
Plans were made to march on Tokyo with the vague idea of presenting grievances to the government, and on February 15 Saigō's army started out.
The origins of the House of Commons date from the second half of the 13th century, when landholders and other property owners in the counties and towns began sending representatives to Parliament to present grievances and petitions to the king and to accept commitments to the payment of taxes.
More recently, he has helped organize citizens' raids on "black jails" used to detain petitioners coming to Beijing to present grievances, and has helped parents campaigning against discriminatory barriers that prevent children from the countryside from enjoying the same schools and chances for advancement as established urban residents.
The following day, March 17th, Conrad and his House counterpart, John Spratt, presented their grievances to the President at the White House.
Anselm attended the Council of Bari (Italy) in 1098 and presented his grievances against the king to Urban II.
In 1603 the Millenary Petition (which claimed 1,000 signatures) presented Puritan grievances to the king, and in 1604 the Hampton Court Conference was held to deal with them.
Nobles in northern and eastern France presented their grievances to the King, who by early November was lying ill at Poissy, St . Louiss birthplace, recovering from a minor stroke.
During the event, a multi-ethnic group of Batavian inhabitants presented their grievances to the local government.
The UFW noted some Brown family history; namely that Brown argued with his father, then Governor Pat Brown, on behalf of the union cause when the UFW first marched on the Capitol in 1966, with the younger Brown urging his father to join the farm workers as they presented their grievances.
