Planned Parenthood is calling this year's event the 33rd, but longtime organizers say this is more like the 35th.

To supporters, Mr. Lopez, 59, a longtime civic and political organizer, is the chief architect of the renaissance.

Chris Crass is a longtime organizer and writer working to build powerful working class-based, feminist, multiracial movements for collective liberation.

A longtime organizer with the party, he assumed the leadership in 1981; however, within a year he resigned the position due to difficulties in fulfilling the role due to a congenital heart condition.

Republicans have more than enough money to compete with this kind of program, but they don't have a platoon of longtime professional organizers ready to go to work.

Raoul Dandurand, PC (November 4, 1861 - March 11, 1942) was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada.

"It's not an optimistic situation," said Lu Palmer, a longtime black political organizer , who hosts a radio talk program for blacks.

Rick Castro, 48, the other longtime organizer, explained that it takes one tango to meet your partner, the second to get used to your partner, and the third to just enjoy.

"They are really pushing labor unions, and labor unions are responding," said Jeff Link, a longtime Democratic organizer here.

He was part owner of the Star and Garter, a popular Sixth Avenue saloon, and was a longtime political organizer and "fixer" for Tammany Hall.