The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

ExxonMobil, the oil major, has been accused by Friends of the Earth and others of giving millions of dollars to a long list of think-tanks and lobbyists opposed to Kyoto.

Historian Frank Zelko has commented that " unlike Friends of the Earth, for example, which sprung fully formed from the forehead of David Brower, Greenpeace developed in a more evolutionary manner.

The World Showcase usually opens two hours after park opening and remains open later than the Future World section of the park ; however, most major attractions in Future World including Test Track, Soarin ', Mission Space, The Seas with Nemo and Friends, and Spaceship Earth remain open until park close.

: The Hong Kong branch Friends of the Earth ( HK ) is not a member of Friends of the Earth International.

Friends of the Earth International ( FOEI ) is an international network of environmental organizations in 76 countries.

Friends of the Earth considers environmental issues in their social, political and human rights contexts.

The current campaign priorities of Friends of the Earth internationally are:

The campaign priorities are set at the bi-annual general meeting of Friends of the Earth International.

In addition to the priority campaign areas Friends of the Earth International has a number of other campaign areas which are active internationally.

' Friends of the Earth ' workshop, at Nambassa Festival 1978, New Zealand.

The Friends of the Earth organizations in each country are themselves many-tiered networks reaching from individual activists up to the national pressure group which campaigns for environmentally progressive and sustainable policies.

The member organization in a particular country may name itself Friends of the Earth or an equivalent translated phrase in the national language, e. g., Friends of the Earth ( US ), Friends of the Earth ( EWNI ) ( England Wales and Northern Ireland ), Amigos de la Tierra ( Spain and Argentina ).

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Most often this takes the form of monetary or material donations or campaigning to the institutions which oversee the library, sometimes by advocacy groups such as Friends of Libraries.

Although the sale or consumption of commercial alcohol has never been prohibited by law, historically various groups in the UK have campaigned for the prohibition of alcohol, including the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), The Methodist Church and other non-conformist Christians, as well as temperance movements such as Band of Hope and temperance Chartist movements of the 19th century.

Sentinels and anti-mutant hate groups such as Friends of Humanity, Humanity's Last Stand, the Church of Humanity and Stryker's Purifiers are thought to often represent oppressive forces like the Ku Klux Klan giving a form to denial of civil rights and amendments.

Church meetings typically allow all present to speak, a practice similar to the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, although these two groups were also never affiliated.

Major anti-nuclear groups include Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

'" At the same time, NGOs have shown themselves not to be very cooperative with other groups, as the previous policy-maker for the German branch of Friends of the Earth Jens Katjek acknowledged.

This move was criticized by rank-and-file groups like the Friends of Durruti.

The Committee agreed to form two informal " Friends of the Chair " groups to: 1 ) consider preparations for the 2005 NPT REVCON ; and 2 ) continue consideration of possible future adoption of a policy of requiring full-scope safeguards as a condition of supply to non-nuclear weapon states.

Others were educated out of state with funds raised by groups such as the Society of Friends.

The local politics of the Scrubs are a constant battle between vigilant groups like The Friends of Wormwood Scrubs and various interests — the railway, the local council and others — who always have an eye to building on the green space.

It has been argued that the suppression of the English monasteries and nunneries contributed as well to the spreading decline of that contemplative spirituality which once thrived in Europe, with the occasional exception found only in groups such as the Society of Friends (" Quakers ").

Entertainment at Turkey Trot has ranged in recent years from famous acts like John Conlee, singer of " Rose Colored Glasses ," and Jeannie Kendall from the Grammy-award winning group The Kendalls, to more local entertainment by area groups such as The Muddles, South 14, Joe Sasser and Friends, and Carnes McCormack.

These groups include the Izaak Walton League of Duluth, Friends of the Cloquet Valley State Forest, the American Association of Foresters, Minnesota Chapter, Fish and Wildlife Alliance, Minnesotans for Responsible Recreation, the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society and many others.

Burke's daughter, Melanie " Honey " Burke McCall, a Neo Soul singer who is an accomplished artist as well as a freelance background recording artist with companies such as Daxwood Records, Casablanca, A & M and Rawkus Records and a studio artist for groups such as Billy Preston, Peacock ( Anna Gayle group ), and Leslie Uggams, and toured with Chaka Khan, and wrote and produced Family, & Friends, a 14-song original soundtrack for Ms, which was released in 2005, and opened for Jocelyn Brown, Jaheim, Norman Connors, and Angela Bofill, as well as for her father at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2006.

An American branch recently incorporated under the name " American Friends of Neve Shalom " they are a non-profit 501 ( c ) 3 organization that raises funds in the US for NSWAS programs ( similar support groups also exist in the EU, and elsewhere ).

Etherow Country Park has many local groups associated with it including a small local community group, the Friends of Etherow, anglers, the afore-mentioned sailing club, and a model boat club.

Since the 1970s, criticism has also come from liberals within the Society of Friends, who charge that AFSC has drifted from its Quaker roots and has become indistinguishable from other political pressure groups.

Anti-mutant prejudice and discrimination was depicted through minor characters as well as more prominent ones, including Senator Robert Kelly, the Friends of Humanity ( whose activities and masks in later episodes echoed white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan ) and robotic Sentinels.

In the 17th century, thou fell into disuse in the standard language but persisted, sometimes in altered form, in regional dialects of England and Scotland, as well as in the language of such religious groups as the Society of Friends.

Protestors included local residents of the Sound, the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and Ahousaht First Nation bands, and environmentalist groups such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Clayoquot Sound.

The first opposition to logging companies in the Sound occurred in 1984, when members of Friends of the Clayoquot Sound and First Nations groups set up blockades on the logging roads leading to Meares Island.

Environmental groups like Friends of the Clayoquot Sound and the First Nations communities were concerned with the logging companies ’ approach to resource management.

This can be the first introduction to small town life for Topsfield newcomers-all the local groups such as the Garden Clubs, the Friends of the Library, the Newcomers Club among many others are available to explain their activities and invite new members.

And new vistas of hairshirt asceticism are opened by scholarly monographs entitled: `` Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ear-Muffs '', `` Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dream '', and `` The New Vocabularianism ''.

* Moger, Art, Some of My Best Friends are People, introduction by Al Capp ( 1970 ) Directors Press

For example, the Friends United Meeting and the Evangelical Friends International believe that sexual relations are condoned only in marriage, which they define to be between a man and a woman.

Several sealed and stamped letters are planted in public places, addressed to various entities, such as individuals, favorable organizations like medical research institutes, and stigmatized organizations such as " Friends of the Nazi Party ".

In this assembly of Holy Friends, which took place in the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, secrets of and revelations on mitzvot of the Torah are explained and clarified — roots and deep meanings of mitzvot.

( Friends and family are important.

The costumes are managed by the non-profit association The Friends of Manneken-Pis, who review hundreds of designs submitted each year, and select a small number to be produced and used.

There are also other organizations that support and advocate the monarchy, such as the United Empire Loyalists ' Association of Canada, the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, the Orange Order in Canada, and the Friends of the Canadian Crown.

Money from tickets purchased by tourists is now used to pay for the work, and private donations are accepted through the Friends of the Sagrada Família.

Among the several 18th-century buildings remaining are a Friends ' meetinghouse ( 1788 ), the Martine house ( 1717 ), and the Nathaniel Drake House ( 1746 ), known as George Washington's headquarters.

Common areas which modern Friends are said to testify are testimony towards peace, testimony to simplicity, testimony to truth and integrity, testimony to equality.

* Depictions of Krypton on both The New Adventures of Superman and Super Friends are generally similar to those of the pre-Crisis comic books.

Among the better-known graduates are screenwriters for the television show Friends David Crane and Marta Kauffman, political activists Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis, journalist Thomas Friedman, Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, physicist Edward Witten, novelist Ha Jin, political theorist Michael Walzer, actress Debra Messing, philosopher Michael Sandel, Olympic Silver Medalist fencer Timothy Morehouse, social and psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow, and author Mitch Albom.

In an interview at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, Fassbinder said about Fox and His Friends: “ It is certainly the first film in which the characters are homosexuals, without homosexuality being made into a problem.

The most significant differences are the inclusion of three different songs ( a cover of Badfinger's " Baby Blue "; " All Our Wishes "; and " The Further Adventures of ...") and the exclusion of five songs from Crimson and Blue (" Love Divine ," " Reunion Of Friends ," " Stone Eyes ," " I Will Be There ," " Nothing But The Blood.