In recession-hit Michigan a discussion raised support for bigger taxes (from 27% to 45% for income tax, for example).
Earlier this year, I met Waite; he was raising support for Emmaus, an organisation offering housing and work to homeless people.
The famous Depression-era photographs by Dorothea Lange and others were aimed at raising support for New Deal programs.
At that time, the five or so largest environment groups, supported by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ran a public awareness campaign – "Say Yes" – to raise support for the carbon price.
Invisible Children, the aid group behind the video, says it wants "to make Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest".
Mr. Reich's comments came after the American ambassador, Manuel Rocha, gave a similar warning before the election, which backfired and helped raise support for Mr. Morales.
He said that he had tried to raise support for this view from students at other universities but that the response so far had been "bleak".
Though Sylvia had also broken with the Communist party, she remained determinedly on the left, supporting sexual freedom and raising support for Ethiopia's struggle against fascist Italy (she eventually moved to Addis Ababa).
Photo: Sergio Lopez, 24, an Army specialist, and other veterans cycled to Central Park from ground zero yesterday as part of an event for Soldier Ride, a nonprofit group seeking to raise support for wounded soldiers.
"How do you go through that kind of money?" Mr. Graham said his spending was part of the effort to raise support for an organization that had been struggling financially for years.
