City officials responded by shifting the desultory and poorly publicized efforts of the past into overdrive.
Mr. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda, an heiress to the Levi Strauss fortune, founded the prize in 1989 as a way to finance and publicize efforts to protect the environment.
Today is Invisible Children's "Global Day of Action" — meant to publicize efforts to capture Joseph Kony, of the Lord's Resistance Army, a warlord who continues to kidnap women and children and turn them into sex slaves and soldiers.
Mr. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda, an heiress to the Levi Strauss fortune, first awarded the prize in 1990 as a way to finance and publicize efforts to protect the environment.
"I don't really know what to expect for my trip," the mother, 69, said in the statement, which was posted on a Web site created to publicize efforts to secure his release.
Ms. Alley has never appeared on Broadway; she is best known for her six seasons on the NBC show "Cheers," for which she won an Emmy Award, and her highly publicized efforts at weight loss (which included a reality television series).
"Many are aware of the historic victories, including leading us out of the Group of Death to the Round of 16 in the 2014 Fifa World Cup, but there were also lesser publicized efforts behind the scenes.
Their quest for greater freedom has been overshadowed by the more publicized efforts of Tibetans and Uighurs, two other minority groups in China whose numbers have been overwhelmed by Han migration and whose efforts to maintain — or reclaim — religious, cultural and linguistic autonomy have led to violent clashes with the Chinese.
By Alexis Okeowo April 20 , 2012 Todayis Invisible Children's "Global Day of Action" — meant to publicize efforts to capture Joseph Kony, of the Lord's Resistance Army, a warlord who continues to kidnap women and children and turn them into sex slaves and soldiers.
