Gone are the days of massive sit-ins and letter-writing campaigns championed by older activists.
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But by the 1970s professionally orchestrated letter-writing campaigns began to undermine the letter-writers' impact.
The activists plan to hold public meetings, produce a mini-newspaper, distribute stickers, maybe launch a letter-writing drive.
Lifelong fan Ann Hughes started a letter-writing campaign to secure a knighthood for Tom around four years ago.
Citizens in countless states have organized petitions and letter-writing campaigns pressing state officials to disclose investments of these companies.
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She hired a lobbyist who helped unite various SMA patient groups, including FightSMA, in a letter-writing campaign to Congress.
He said when gay officers had first tried to start their own organisation, there was a "vociferous" letter-writing campaign against it.
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So SEC saw an opening to inject itself into fracking and, according to the WSJ story, is doing so through selective letter-writing.
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The Service Employees International Union plans to spend millions of dollars on advertising, rallies and letter-writing campaigns to lawmakers in support of an overhaul.
Very few of these observe the courtesies enshrined in traditional letter-writing.
And so the camp dwellers mount protest marches and letter-writing campaigns, or sit around waiting (and making terrorist attacks on southern Bhutan, says the government).
Responding to a letter-writing campaign proved wise for the network: The show nabbed Outstanding Drama Emmys in 1985 and 1986 and continued for five more seasons.
If Oskar Werner's features recall those of his director, Jim's love of letter-writing reminds us that Mr. Truffaut himself adored writing usually by hand to friends and acquaintances alike.
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In it, Woolf - using established letter-writing conventions - takes advantage of the time lapses between exchanges to recuperate, clarify, recast and take control of the argument.
Virginia Woolf called letter-writing "the humane art, which owes its origins to the love of friends", and devoted a good deal of emotional energy to using it to maintain her friendships.
Targets in New York's letter-writing campaign include the high-profile 23andMe, in Mountain View, Calif, (run by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin) and Navigenics, of Redwood Shores, Calif.
The UK's controversial Digital Economy Act makes provisions for tough action against those who downloading pirated music and films - initially sanctioning a letter-writing campaign asking them to desist.
By the time Kan finished his own first year in the Diet, in 1980, he had earned himself the nickname "Ira-Kan" for unleashing an "irritating" barrage of pointed questions and letter-writing campaigns over everything from garbage collection to nuclear safety.
In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.
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Two Senate sources told CNN the handwriting on the letter also was similar to the block-style writing on the Daschle and Brokaw letters.
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According to Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, the pope started thinking about writing the letter last summer after the publication of the Ryan report -- one of three separate reports on sexual and physical abuse by Irish clergy that has come out since 2005.
You wouldn't draft a letter or sketch a still life with an ink-stained finger, but that's what writing or drawing on a tablet amounts to without the proper tool.
But Whitney is such a big-hearted donor to causes that I care about that I am writing this open letter for him to try to get him to cover his short now.
As well as writing to those named in the e-mails, Mr Brown sent a letter to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, saying he was ready to take "whatever action is required" to prevent a repeat of the incident.
At the time of writing, no evidence links this week's frightening events -- the bombing, the letter, the explosion.
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