In 1835, when President Antonio López de Santa Anna abolished the Constitution of 1824, granting himself enormous powers over the government, wary colonists in Texas began forming Committees of Correspondence and Safety.

An early advocate of independence, Lee became one of the first to create Committees of Correspondence among the many independence-minded Americans in the various colonies.

GPUS is descended of The Green Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ), a decentered network of green organizations formed by members of the North American Bioregional Congress in the early 1980s.

The political movement that began in 1984 as the decentralized Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) evolved into a more centralized structure by 1990, opening a national clearinghouse, and forming governing bodies, bylaws, and a platform under the name The Green Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) and by 1990, simply, The Greens.

In early 1835, as the Mexican government transitioned from a federalist model to centralism, wary Texans began forming Committees of Correspondence and Safety.

In 1980 Stanley L. Weinberg, a veteran high-school teacher in Iowa, began to organize statewide Committees of Correspondence " committed to the defense of education in evolutionary theory ," modelled upon the committees of correspondence in pre-Revolutionary America.

At its founding meeting in 1984, the Green Committees of Correspondence in the United States expanded these into the Ten Key Values.

For several months early in the American Revolution the Committees of Safety and Correspondence made Watertown their headquarters and it was from here that General Joseph Warren set out for Bunker Hill.

* 1772 – Samuel Adams organizes the Committees of Correspondence

This agregious threat to local liberty prompted the colonists to form the Committees of Correspondence.

Dunayevskaya and her supporters eventually formed the News and Letters Committees in 1955 after splitting with CLR James, who was deported from the USA to Britain from where he continued to advise the Correspondence Publishing Committee, which split again in 1962, with those loyal to CLR James taking the name Facing Reality.

* Ten Key Values of the Green Committees of Correspondence ( US )

** See also Green Committees of Correspondence, Greens / Green Party USA, Boston Proposal

Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.

By 1775, the revolutionary spirit had reached Georgia through the Committees of Correspondence and he dismissed the assembly.

During the 1990s, two organizations fused with Solidarity — the Fourth Internationalist Tendency ( a group expelled from the SWP ) and Activists for Independent Socialist Politics ( a Socialist Action split that had previously worked in Committees of Correspondence ).

He became a member of the Committees of Correspondence and Safety, the New York City Committee of Sixty and when New York established their revolutionary government in 1775, he was elected to the New York Provincial Congress.

During the 1990s, two organizations fused with Solidarity — the Fourth Internationalist Tendency ( a group expelled from the SWP ) and Activists for Independent Socialist Politics ( a Socialist Action split that had previously worked in Committees of Correspondence ).

* Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Before he went underground as an agent, he had been an active member of the Sons of Liberty and the New York Committees of Correspondence and Observation, local Patriot intelligence groups.

Although,, the Green Party of the United States has for several years been a much larger and more visible national-level and state-based party organization and has been recognized since 2001 by the Federal Election Commission as a national committee of a political party, the smaller Greens / Green Party USA ( a name adopted in 1991 ) claims to be the successor to the original American Green organization founded in 1984, previously called the Green Committees of Correspondence ( CoCs ) 1984-1991.

Rabinow, a Foucault scholar interested in issues of the production of knowledge, used the topic to argue against the idea that scientific discovery is the product of individual work, writing, " Committees and science journalists like the idea of associating a unique idea with a unique person, the lone genius.

Another article described Sandinista neighbourhood " Defense Committees ", modeled on similar Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, which according to critics were used to unleash mobs on anyone who was labeled a counterrevolutionary.

During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists.

The Village Council passes local laws, makes appointments to various Boards and Committees, and awards various contracts for purchases of goods and services used by the Village.

Project Steering Committees are frequently used for guiding and monitoring the information technology projects in large organizations, as part of project governance.

Committees also will not be used at the 2010 NFL National Tournament in Kansas City.

In May 2006, the NCAA and National Federation of State High School Associations Rules Committees announced a rule change allowing the colored balls to be used in all NCAA and NFHS sanctioned games.

The Committees of Inspection used publicity as weapons to suppress disaffection and encourage patriotism.

Clearness Committees are often used when a member of the meeting seeks to reach clarity on how to respond to a concern or dilemma.

Azam adds that he in turn used his connection with the Peace Committees to do what he could to reduce the suffering of average Bangladeshis under Pakistani Army persecution.

In 2005, the AFL – CIO constitution was changed to permit the executive council to form " Industrial Coordinating Committees " based on geography, employer, occupation or other appropriate subdivisions to coordinate the organizing and collective bargaining work of the member unions.

* to coordinate and, if necessary, create national deliberative assemblies, such as the National Committees ;

The Quorum of Seventy oversees the activities of its Missionary Operating Committees to ensure the fulfilling of Christ ’ s commandment to take the gospel to the entire world.

Each Councilor is liaison to ( typically ) two Town Committees, with responsibilities to attend meetings of those committees and report back on their activities.

The organisation experienced an enduring growth for the next ten years, its network counting an increasing number of National Committees and its activities becoming both larger and more numerous.

Committees and associations work to promote tourism on the island, and provide services and activities for residents.

RASAB is responsible for coordinating the national and international activities of the Academies, such as the National Scientific Committees and the representation of Belgium in international scientific organisations.

RASAB is responsible for the financial and logistic support of the National Committees, as well for its daily activities, as for the organisation of scientific events by the National Committees in the Palace of Academies.

A report from the British House of Lords said, “ There is no definitive list of comitology committees, their functions, activities and membership ”; however, since the European Commission started to maintain a list, it states that “ A list of ‘ comitology ’ committees [...] is published as an Annex to the Annual reports on the work of these Committees [...] as well as in the Register of Comitology .” Moreover, the strongest criticism pertained to the fact that the elected European Parliament ( EP ) had no right to block implementing measures: only the comitology committees could do so, and if they did, the proposal was referred to Council alone, even when the initial delegation of powers was through an act adopted jointly by both Parliament and Council under the co-decision procedure.

The SBA has created various Activity-Based Committees ( ABCs ) which are in charge of specific student activities.

This is interesting because Fulani works closely with Fred Newman, a former affiliate of LaRouche who broke from the National Caucus of Labor Committees to start his own political activities.

The International Ornithological Committee is a group of about 200 international ornithologists, and is responsible for the International Ornithological Congress and other international ornithological activities, undertaken by its Standing Committees.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act resulted from extensive investigations by Senate Committees into the legality of domestic intelligence activities.

The landless claim to have found institutional support in the Catholic Church through their teachings of social justice and equality, as embodied in the activities of Catholic Base Committees ( Comissões Eclesiais de Base, or CEBs for short ) which in general advocate liberation theology and more specifically anti-hierarchical social relations.

International activities, memberships, functions, and honors include: Scientific Advisor, Shanghai Sex Sociology Research Center ; World Association for Sexual Health ( WAS ); European Federation of Sexology ( EFS ); Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality ( SSSS ); Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States ( SIECUS ); Editorial Boards, Journal of Homosexuality and ' Sexuality and Culture '; International Scientific Committees, XIII.

These Committees of Safety were in constant communication with committees of correspondence, which disseminated information among the militia units and provided a clearinghouse of information and intelligence on enemy activities.

The key activities of the forum are structured via three main Committees:

IFIP's activities are centered on its fourteen Technical Committees, which are divided into working groups.

Solebury ’ s students have the opportunity to take on leadership roles that are integral to the day-to-day functioning of the school: students run our twice weekly all-school assemblies ; students serve with faculty on our Judiciary and Academic Committees ; older students act as Peer Leaders and Peer Tutors for younger students ; students act as Tour Guides for our admission department ; students start and lead their own clubs and organizations ( such as Amnesty International and the Solebury Literary Arts Magazine ); students also participate in a wide range of competitive sports and other traditional activities.

Many activities of the Council are conducted through three Standing Committees, which include Financial Management Committee ( FMC ), Professional Development Committee ( PDC ), Nominating and Leadership Development Committee ( N & LDC ), and certain Select Committees and Task Force.

Poșta Română is also a founding member ( 1993 ) of PostEurop ( The Association of the European Public Postal Operators ) and it was actively involved its activities by participating to several European projects, by contributing to the work of various Posteurop Committees and working groups and by facilitating the organization of two PostEurop Plenary Assemblies in Bucharest in 1996 and 2004.

The Lord ’ s Taverners benefits from the fundraising activities of The Lady Taverners, Young Lord ’ s Taverners, Regional Committees and its 5, 000 Members, many of them drawn from the world of sport and entertainment.