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Dice attended concerts at the 5 Star throughout the 2010s and ended up working with Born for Burning, a heavy metal production company that had been organizing events at the bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

Yefer Bravo of Unidad de Exiles Nicaraguan in Costa Rica said Maldonado, 32, had been organizing a protest against Ortega's government for Sunday in San Jose.

From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2021

The online group chats where student activists had been organizing campaigns against the program “blew up” even before Rice finished speaking, said Lauren Payne, 18, the president of the group Young People for Progress.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2021

The principal of the school where she worked, Scott Armstrong, told The Toronto Star that she brought art and music into her lessons and had been organizing online classes for her students.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

He had been organizing other ministers in Little Rock to speak out and condemn the governor for dispatching the troops.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals