Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

This contains articles corresponding to talks presented at the founding convention of the Mars Society in Boulder, Colorado in August 1998 ; it includes contributions from Zubrin, Buzz Aldrin, Martyn Fogg, and many others.

This echoed the view, expressed at the IWW's founding convention, that war represents struggles among capitalists in which the rich become richer, and the working poor all too often die at the hands of other workers.

The former lieutenant governor of Colorado, David C. Coates was a labor militant, and was present at the founding convention, although it is unknown if he became a member.

Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.

" Herri Batasuna's founding convention was held in Lekeitio, home of Santiago Brouard who was then the leader of HASI ( Herriko Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea or Revolutionary Socialist People's Party ).

At its founding convention in 1932, the party settled on the name " Co-operative Commonwealth Federation-( Farmer-Labour-Socialist )" and selected J. S.

However, shortly after the 1987 founding convention, social and fiscal conservatives became dominant within the party, moving it to the right.

In 1968 the PFP held a state-wide founding convention in the Richmond, California.

He was expelled from that union for his participation in the founding IWW convention.

At the founding convention Hagerty served as secretary of the Constitution Committee, and as such wrote the preamble to the IWW Constitution — a short and effective manifesto which became a fundamental element of the organization's official doctrine for decades to follow.

" Emphasizing this point during a speech to the founding convention of the IWW, Hagerty declared:

The founding convention of the YCL was held early in May 1922, apparently in Bethel, Connecticut.

The founding convention of the YWL was held in Brooklyn, New York from May 13 to 15, 1922, held appropriately enough at Finnish Socialist Hall.

No new party was formally established, but a governing Executive Committee was named for the prospective " National Independent Party ," with the body assigned the task of composing a declaration of principles and issuing another call for a formal founding convention.

In 2005, some political analysts such as former Progressive Conservative pollster Allan Gregg and Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hébert suggested that the then-subsequent election could result in a Conservative government if the public were to perceive the Tories as emerging from the party's founding convention ( then scheduled for March 2005 ) with clearly defined, moderate policies with which to challenge the Liberals.

Delegates from the Ontario CCF, delegates from affiliated union locals, and delegates from New Party Clubs took part in the founding convention of the New Democratic Party of Ontario held in Niagara Falls at the Sheraton Brock hotel from 7 – 9 October 1961 and elected MacDonald as their leader.

Samuel Gompers of the Cigar Makers ' International Union was elected president of the Federation at its founding convention and was reelected every year except one until his death in 1924.

The founding convention voted to make the President of the new federation a full-time official at a salary of $ 1, 000 per year, and Samuel Gompers of the Cigar Makers ' International Union was elected to the position.

Although the founding convention of the AFL had authorized the establishment of a publication for the new organization, Gompers made use of the existing labor press to generate support for the position of the craft unions against the Knights of Labor.

The AFL's founding convention declaring " higher wages and a shorter workday " to be " preliminary steps toward great and accompanying improvements in the condition of the working people.

On 28 July 1984, the founding convention of the World Sikh Organization ( WSO ) was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The UFCW was created through the merger of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters union and Retail Clerks International Union following its founding convention in June 1979.

During the weekend of 31 July to 1 August 1920, a founding convention was held in London at which the Communist Party of Great Britain was established.

A section of the organization, including key figures such as shop steward movement activist Jack Murphy formed an organised faction called the Communist Unity Group, which ultimately left the SLP to join the CPGB at its founding convention in the summer of 1920.

Another source of intellectual stimulus was opened to her at that time by the founding of Johns Hopkins University within walking distance of home.

Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. ; ;

He thought the financing, the advertising, the production of new models, the founding of a nationwide chain of dealerships was simply too difficult.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

Likewise important in Virgil's day was the account of Rome's founding in Cato the Elder's Origines.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the influential Bourbaki group.

One of the roles of Ares that was sited in mainland Greece itself was in the founding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by Cadmus, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung up as the fully armored autochthonic Spartoi.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

The Granville Street Baptist Church ( now First Baptist Church ( Halifax )) was an instrumental and determining factor in the founding of the University.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

The founding of the SANNC was in direct response to injustice against black South Africans at the hands of the government then in power.

Claudius was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honour of the city's anniversary, in 48 AD, 800 years after the founding of the city.

The traditional date for the founding of Rome of 21 April 753 BC, was initiated by Varro.

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (; ) or Aegeas (; ), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens.

This historical founding was traditionally dated to 654 BC, which is unverified, although evidence in 7th century BC Greek pottery tends to support it.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.