All across the world planting fruit and vegetables is becoming a new form of non-violent direct action for a diverse group of environmentalists and food campaigners.
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Washington (CNN) -- On the eve of a day of action aimed at an African militia leader, a bipartisan group of senators is inviting Americans to sign on as co-sponsors of legislation condemning Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army.
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These casualties tend to peak in the weeks after a war, explains Richard Lloyd, of Landmine Action, a campaign group, as people return to places that they had wrongly assumed to be safe.
Sirius XM Radio is facing a class action suit filed by a nationwide group of the company subscribers that alleges antitrust law infringement because the company has abused its monopoly position and increased its fees by 30%.
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Thursday's court action focused on a settlement reached late last year between the Malkins and a group of investors who filed a class-action lawsuit against the plan.
He said Matthew Champion, a member of the Ryburgh Village Action Group, had launched a legal challenge after pollution concerns were raised.
Following a crowd-pumping opening ceremony, day one of tournament action commenced with group stage play, throwing each competitor into a demanding run of best of three series.
Laura Callaway, assistant director of Exeter Homeless Action Group, said that, as a group, they often came at the back of the housing queue but made up 80% of clients.
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The Thai-born resident is head of Action Theatre, a repertory group whose plays and musicals are popular among yuppies.
One of the lawyers, Karen Derbyshire is also helping to launch a joint action group involving some of the bereaved families.
The tweets are being removed following the threat of legal action by a Jewish student group.
"We call this phenomenon 'follow me down, '" says Linda Sherry, director of Consumer Action, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington.
What she found would look quite familiar to anybody involved in the securities class-action business: A small group of specialized players who engage in repeated rounds of the same game.
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Fiona Ryan, is chief executive of Alcohol Action Ireland, which is a member of the strategy's steering group.
At the moment, the club's disciplinary organ is the Ministerial Action Group, known as CMAG, consisting of senior people from a rotating group of nine members.
It brought together members of the Real IRA, the Derry-based vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs and a number of non-aligned republicans.
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Compared with those action-packed scenarios, a group of intelligence agents meeting in a virtual conference room seems rather tame, says Gartner Research's Carol Rozwell, an analyst focused on the use of virtual worlds in business.
Events over the coming weeks will include a "day of celebration" organised by the North Staffs Miners Wives Action Group, a rally in South Yorkshire and a gala in Barnsley.
The video is the work of the Live Action, an anti-abortion group that has been lobbying fervently in support of a Republican-led effort to defund Planned Parenthood.
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The Premier League has already taken action against two suppliers of foreign satellite equipment and a group of pub landlords who used imported decoding equipment to show English Premier League games and avoided the commercial premises subscription fees for Sky.
Gordon McIntosh, 63, of Roehampton, south-west London, said a group of former residents were looking at starting legal action.
Another ex-resident of the orphanage Gordon McIntosh, 63, of Roehampton, south-west London, said a group of former residents were looking at starting legal action and a reunion was taking place on 22 June.
Jihadists are using the north for drugs and arms trade, to train recruits and plan new attacks, according to Alpha Moulaye Haidara, a leader of a group of northern Malians advocating action.
At a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in London this week, Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth secretary-general, said that if the election were to be held in June, international observers would have to arrive at once.
The talks had been aimed at discussing how to implement a plan proposed last June by the Action Group for Syria, which called for an immediate cessation of violence and the establishment of a transitional government.
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The Marchioness Action Group and the Marchioness Contact Group, which represent survivors and families of the victims, both played a significant part in the Thames Safety Inquiry, and he would authorise public funding for the legal teams representing both groups, he said.
Bipartisan progress can happen in Washington when a diverse group of citizens call for action.
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The conference will try to persuade both the Syrian government and opposition to accept a solution based on the final communique of a meeting of the UN-backed Action Group for Syria last June.
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Ian Hookway and other members of the Save Trentham High Action Group want to force a competition, giving interested parties - including themselves - the opportunity to help decide the type of new school they will get as well as who will run it.
The Task Force meets again in October 1999 for review and possible adoption of the working group strategies as a Task Force Action Plan.
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