Local politicians and activists have long denounced the refineries for the amount of air pollution they generate, but in recent years these protests have been muted as the Port of Los Angeles has become the region's dominant polluter.

Local gay rights activists including, Porterville LGBTQ, protested City Council meetings for 11 months, getting the attention of local media.

Local Slovene activists established contacts with the Yugoslav nationalist organization Orjuna, launching first attacks at Italian military and police personnel.

The board eventually was embroiled in counter lawsuits by board members and listener-sponsors, and after global settlement of the lawsuits in November 2001, an interim board was formed to craft new bylaws, which it did in two tumultuous years of national debates among thousands of listener-sponsors and activists, finally giving listener-sponsors the right and responsibility to elect new Local Station Boards at each of the five Pacifica stations.

Local community groups and activists are very vocal about any changes at the airport.

Local rank-and-file party members and activists overwhelmingly supported Kan, and according to opinion polls the wider Japanese public preferred Kan to Ozawa by as much as a 4 – 1 ratio.

Local activists held a Phelps-A-Thon in response.

Local Labour activists blamed Hodge, and it was reported that moves were under way to deselect her.

Local Long Island activists prevented the center from expanding to include diseases that affect humans in 2000, which would require a Biosafety Level 4 designation ; in 2002, Congress again considered the plan.

Now the largest gay equality organization not only in the UK but in Europe, it was formed in 1989 by political activists and others lobbying against section 28 of the Local Government Act.

Local academic and religious activists persisted in these efforts for sixteen years until the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York recognized the school with that institution's first charter.

Local Slovene political activists were either executed or deported to Nazi concentration camps.

Taking advantage of a mis-step by the leadership of UAW Local 200 in trying to rally a national one-day strike in sympathy of Ford workers, in 1946 CCF activists within the local 195 and 200 overturned their leadership.

Local kibbutzniks, such as Oded Lifshitz, and Latif Dori, many of whom were also activists in the left-wing Mapam party ran Rafiah tours in order to show Israelis the destruction that had taken place, and to bring to public attention the fact that the image of the Bedouin as nomads was inexact, and that their orchards were being bulldozed.

In response to the rumours of a cohort of Liberal Party activists being about to launch a UK Green Party, HELP ( the Hackney Local Ecology Party ) formally registered the name “ the Green Party ”, with a green circle, designed by Steve O ’ Brien, as the logo.

Local environmental activists claim that the mining operations, which use large quantities of a dilute cyanide solution, have contaminated the water sources, leading to the disappearance of fish and frogs, illnesses among cattle, air pollution, and loss of medicinal plants.

The Liberal Democrats remember Penhaligon's ability to recruit and enthuse members through the Penhaligon Award, a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members and activists.

Local community activists led a successful campaign winning a public inquiry into the future use of this valued green space.

Local businesses again wanted relief, historians sought a reuniting of the waterfront with the city, and nearby residents desired removal of the matte green-painted elevated road, which mayor Thomas Menino called Boston's " other Green Monster ".

Local sentiment was so strong that in 1920 residents blocked the roads and declared independence.

Local residents and those from further afield responded to the requests for blood donations.

Local residents like the humorous slogan " Second Largest Paris in the World.

Local residents brought a class-action lawsuit, one of the first held in Massachusetts, against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company ( USIA ), which had bought Purity Distilling in 1917.

Local residents collected leaked molasses for their homes.

* July 10 – The Holocaust: Jedwabne pogrom: Local ethnic Poles massacre at least 340 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland.

Local residents and common visitors, some of which have shown up for The Telluride Film Festival, have included John Denver, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hannah, Diablo Cody, Jerry Seinfeld, Greg Kinnear, Ed Helms, Nicolas Cage, P! nk, Jason Schwartzman, Sean Penn, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise.

The city is home to 369, 568 residents, while the Mangaung Local Municipality has a population of 645, 455.

Local residents generally use the term Denver area or Denver metro area which may informally mean anything from the continuously urbanized area within the six central counties of the MSA to the Front Range Urban Corridor north of Colorado Springs and south of Fort Collins.

Local residents often call it " the abbey ", although the present cathedral represents only the church of the old Benedictine abbey.

Local consumer confidence and a continued immigration of an estimated 28, 800 new residents, new capital investments for new construction exceeding $ 1. 11-billion and the steady growth of professional and health care services continued to drive much of the County ’ s economic viability.

Local residents protested and most of those evacuated to other areas have finally been rehoused and a new school opened.

Local residents, led by the Holme Valley Business Association, campaigned for its demolition.

Local residents believed the soil to be fertile and the weather enviable and moderate … such that almost any fruit or vegetable could be grown.

Local government, local school districts, and nonprofit organizations employ many county residents.

The residents of Athens County are served by the five school districts: the Alexander Local School District, Athens City School District, the Federal Hocking Local School District, Nelsonville-York City School District, and the Trimble Local School District.

Several local groups are protesting this development, including Hackney Unites, the Hackney Liberal Democrat Party, and Stokey Local, a group formed by local business leaders and residents.

Local residents have been consulted about the design of the development.

Local lore has it that residents convinced the reconstruction government that Benton County was to be named for U. S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton, but the name was actually chosen to honor Confederate General Samuel Benton from nearby Holly Springs.

Local residents gave them a cow for milk.

Local residents were selected as principal characters and extras for the movie.

Local Helsinki White Guards, hidden in the city during the war, joined the battle as the Germans advanced through the town.

Following his election, the independent in South Hornchurch joined the leader of the Rainham Independent Residents ' Association in forming the Independent Local Residents ' Group.

Local merchants and restaurants throughout Skippack have joined forces to create “ First Fridays in Skippack ” to encourage the public to re-discover the Village of Skippack and its hidden gems.

He joined the Local Defence Force during The Emergency of 1939 – 1945 and considered a permanent career in the Army.

Local men, later joined by recruits from Fort Shepherd ( in Elm Grove ) and Fort Holliday, defended the fort.

The first two joined to form the Willington Quay urban district under the Local Government Act 1894, with the portion of the parish outside any urban sanitary district forming the parish of Willington in Tynemouth Rural District.

Later, Garcia joined them, and Local H was formed in 1990.

He joined the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions as Minister for Housing, Planning and Regeneration after the 2001 election and moved on to the Home Office in 2002.

In 1864, at the age of 14, Gompers joined and became involved in the activities of Cigarmakers ' Local Union No. 15, the English-speaking union of cigar makers in New York City.

Local players joined these ensembles, which played dance music for festivals and other celebrations.

In 1998, she joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ( IBEW ) Local 441 and became a compliance officer.

He again joined the environment select committee ( in its various guises of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Transport, Local Government and the Regions.

In one of the earliest racially-connected sit-ins, followers of Father Divine and the International Peace Mission Movement joined with the Cafeteria Workers Union, Local 302, in September 1939 to protest racially unfair hiring practices at New York's Shack Sandwich Shops, Inc.

After the Government's re-election in 2002, Cullen joined the Cabinet as Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Local men later joined by recruits from Fort Shepherd ( in Elm Grove ) and Fort Holliday defended the fort.

Upon leaving the Clinton administration, Rubin joined the Board of The Local Initiatives Support Corporation ( LISC ), the nation ’ s leading community development support organization as Chairman.

In January 2012, students of Laurentian University at Georgian College in Barrie joined the CFS as the Laurentian-Barrie Student Union ( Local 111 ).

The government later joined the christian missionaries in establishing many primary schools, a Modern School, Local authority Modern School, now Local Authority Commercial Grammar School, a Teacher Training College, LATCO, later changed in 1964 to Iwo Grammar School.

Now a member of Local 10 of the ILGWU, Dubinsky joined a group of members who rebelled against the old guard leadership of that union to argue for fairer distribution of job opportunities within the union.

He joined DC law firm Arent Fox on May 14, 2009 as Director of State and Local Practice, assisting governments and municipalities with securing stimulus money and managing their budgets.

St. Clair joined the band Local H after stints as tour manager for Chicago's Liz Phair and served as drum tech for Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick.

In 1988, it swapped formats with 2FC and joined the Interstate Programme, which eventually evolved into Local Radio.

Local merchants, helped by environmental groups and anti-globalization groups opposed the construction, and poet Homero Aridjis joined the protest characterizing the opening as " supremely symbolic " and "... like planting the staff of globalization in the heart of ancient Mexico.