* Americans for Democratic Action, American liberal political advocacy organization

* Missing in Action ( Programmed by Sculptured Software for TNT Games ).

* Action Committee for Renewal ( Comité d ' Action pour la Renouveau ), a political party of Togo

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

The IMF's Financial Services Action Plan ( FSAP ) review self-assessment, for example, includes a number of questions about central bank independence in the transparency section.

" National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans ( NBSAPs ) are the principal instruments for implementing the Convention at the national level ( Article 6 ).

Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat ( not reserved just for high profile species ); improvement of national legislation and enforcement ; better reporting by Parties ( and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties ); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer ; the development of CITES Action Plans ( akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity ) including: designation of Scientific / Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies ; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

Organisations that had previously opposed British nuclear weapons supported CND, including the British Peace Committee, the Direct Action Committee, the National Committee for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests and the Quakers.

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 increases defendants ' ability to remove state cases to federal court by giving federal courts original jurisdiction for all class actions with damages exceeding $ 5, 000, 000, exclusive of interest and costs.

During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).

* Robert White ( deceased 1969 ) First Director, Action for Boston Community Development ( ABCD )

* The Boston Direct Action Project

( 2000 ), Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA.

In 1974 the community rallied and under the aegis of an Alinsky-style organizing project funded by The Ecumenical Social Action Committee ( ESAC ) a coalition of local churches, organized a unique and ultimately successful campaign to force Boston Banks to reveal their lending patterns and a " Greenlining campaign " to both stimulate residential investment in the neighborhood.

Queer Nation chapters were founded in dozens of other cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Charlottesville, Virginia, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Columbia, S. C., Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal ( known as Queer Nation Rose ), Philadelphia ( known as Queer Action ), Nashville, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto.

* South Boston Action Center

* Patricia Wright, Director of the South Boston Action Center

The Movement / Media Research and Action Project ( MRAP ), founded in 1986 and operating out of Boston College, provides training and technical assistance to community and grassroots organizations.

It was held at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States from July 23-25, 2004, and coordinated by the Boston-based labor-community network, the Campaign on Contingent Work ( later renamed Massachusetts Global Action ).

Organized by the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, led by SANE, Women Strike for Peace, the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the SDS: 20, 000 to 25, 000 in New York alone, demonstrations also in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Oklahoma City.

* Marc Angel, Hillel Goldberg, and Pinchas Stolper, " Homosexuality and the Orthodox Jewish Community " Jewish Action 53: 2 p. 54 ( 1992 ).

A charity has been formed, called " High Moorland Community Action ", which aimed to improve the situation.

* Total Community Action

It spawned dozens of programs, among them the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills ; the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school ; Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor ; the Model Cities Program for urban redevelopment ; Upward Bound, which assisted poor high school students entering college ; legal services for the poor ; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ( which expanded the federal food stamp program ); the Community Action Program, which initiated local Community Action Agencies charged with helping the poor become self-sufficient ; and Project Head Start, which offered preschool education for poor children.

* Tohono O ' odham Community Action ( TOCA )

In the 1990s, initiatives were taken at an international level ( in particular by the European Community, the Council of Europe, the OECD ) to put a ban on corruption: in 1996, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, for instance, adopted a comprehensive Programme of Action against Corruption and, subsequently, issued a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments:

The group won the Governor's Award for Community Action, released an album of music, performed at the Sylvan Amphitheater in Washington, D. C. on July 4, 1974, made numerous television appearances, provided the soundtrack for an Ohio Department Of Natural Resources public service film titled Sweet Ohio, were designated as the official Bicentennial Touring Group for the state of Ohio, and were the subject of a documentary film during their four year run.

Built in the 1950s, the library has since been converted into the Community Action For Improvement Center.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Community Action Committee, headed by Ed Conway, a longtime resident of Lakeview, began a revitalization of the community.

Invoking the help of the community, the two local churches, and the surrounding Rockdale County residents, the Community Action Committee held protests and brought Ms. Bailey to court to try and have the water facilities removed from her due to the price of water, which was the highest in the country.

The Community Action Committee continued its plan of revitalization and helped establish Lakeview's own free health clinic ( though as of fall 2006, the clinic is in dire need of funds, staff, and supplies ), and brought a police precinct with bicycle mounted policemen to help lower the crime.

* Brainerd Community Action site

* Eastern Plains Community Action Agency ( Early Head Start and Head Start )

The U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity and its Wyandanch Community Action Center worked to improve bus routes, develop job training programs and assist the indigent with accessing government services.

The Trimble high school and middle school provide some local employment, as does a beer distributor ( Miller Brands ), Frog Ranch Salsa, and Hocking-Athens-Perry Community Action Programs ( HAPCAP ).

Hocking-Athens-Perry Community Action Program serves the community by providing jobs, HEAP and PIPP assistance, weatherization of homes, and many other programs and services.

There is public transportation via Yamhill Community Action Partnership with a bus to McMinnville.

One officer is part of the Community Action Team for Domestic Violence.

Social services are provided in part by the Northeast Kingdom Community Action, located here and in other Northeast Kingdom sites.

The organization is the federal and state designated Community Action Agency for Stamford, Greenwich and Darien.