Sentences with phrase «new grassroots movements»

New grassroots movements demanding affordable housing want more from politicians than empty words

No new grassroots movement doing anything beyond sit - ins and marches.

As I recently reported over at TreeHugger, a new grassroots movement has launched petitions in hundreds of cities across the world calling for a transition to 100 percent renewable energy / zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.

With the controversial prorogation of Parliament last week comes a new grassroots movement, Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament.

Not exact matches

I think we need to shy away from the bright and flashy showman's gospel and get back to the grassroots movement modeled so perfectly in the New Testament.

The idea is not entirely new, but echoes what the mass movements of the indigenous, environmentalists, feminists and all grassroots people have been saying for a long time.

Today, an emerging grassroots preterist movement is finally taking notice of the correspondence between the New Testament's picture of «the end» and the events of the latter part of the first century, giving renewed weight to the arguments of Origen, Chrysostom, and other ancient fathers.

Grassroots movements have led to the formation of new political parties as witness the «Greens» in the German Federal Republic and the Ecology Party in Britain.

August 17, 2015; New York, NY — What began as a grassroots effort to celebrate the nutritional benefits of kale as a trending superfood, has grown into a worldwide movement.

«Fair Elections for New York is coming off an intense six - month campaign that has built the largest grassroots movement for election reform that this state has ever seen,» the release states.

«The best comparison is [Howard] Dean, who didn't win the nomination but had a grassroots movement that wanted him to stay in the fight and wanted to built something new themselves,» says Rospars.

Taking the podium, Nixon thanked the committee members for their «courage» and called the WFP, which has come under assault this week from inside and out — with two major unions leaving the fold in protest after it became clear Nixon was all but locked into the endorsement — the «political home for progressives in New York State, and a source of grassroots muscle for the movement.»

Still, Gipson believes Cuomo is vulnerable in part because of the grassroots movements that have risen within the base of the Democratic Party in New York following President Trump's election.

This is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for new and stronger solutions to lax gun laws and loopholes.

The Wall is a place where literally thousands and thousands of people committed to a revolutionary new energy future for our nation and the world are coming together — to express our hopes, share our resolve, and step up to a leadership role in building a grassroots movement for change like nothing America has ever seen.

In the end, the book is a fascinating glimpse into a grassroots political party that has become the largest in New York State and for good reason: It's fusion politics that gives movements like the Independence Party a fighting chance in New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogether.

«Her work in Albany as well as her grassroots efforts to uplift the Long Island community will make her a strong addition to the Senate Democratic Party and her dedication to fight for the public interest of New Yorkers make her a true supporter of the progressive movement.»

A grassroots movement dedicated to protecting and preserving the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City, #SaveNYC officially endorses the Small Business Jobs Survival Act and rejects all other plans currently on the table.

Beals is a member of the Woodstock Democratic Committee, and has been working on the grassroots level since last November's election, when he joined with Swing Left, a new national activist movement, to throw a gathering in Woodstock in March, with the aim of winning back the 19th district congressional seat in the 2018 elections.

«Our grassroots campaign is continuing to grow and hundreds of new donors have joined our «$ 19 for NY - 19» movement to hold Rep. Faso responsible for his votes to take healthcare away from tens of thousands of New Yorkers and for his failure to represent the needs of our community,» Rhodes sanew donors have joined our «$ 19 for NY - 19» movement to hold Rep. Faso responsible for his votes to take healthcare away from tens of thousands of New Yorkers and for his failure to represent the needs of our community,» Rhodes saNew Yorkers and for his failure to represent the needs of our community,» Rhodes said.

Saying the conservative grassroots movement is «now the most potent force in Republican politics» and pointing out Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, and Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, are both members of the new House Tea Party Caucus, DNC chairman Tim Kaine said «the Republican Party agenda has become the Tea Party agenda and vice versa.»

Part of the reason it hasn't happened is that many CLPs are wedded to the «leader leads» model which is, for them, a reason to prevent a grassroots movement emerging (i.e. it's not that new members are simply «consumer members» who only want to vote in the leadership election).

The local labor movement will pick up on the New York State AFL - CIO's endorsement and kick - off labor's grassroots support of Eric Massa at the Western New York Area Labor Federation's annual conference.

Hawkins said he will give voice to the next demand of the grassroots movement that fought for the ban on fracking, which is a ban on all new fossil fuel infrastructure in the state.

Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), a longtime opponent of the natural gas drilling method and ranking minority member of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, said the poll showed a grassroots movement against hydrofracking is resonating in New York.

1 IN 3 CAMPAIGN a grassroots movement to start a new conversation about abortion.

When their fellowship is over they will begin the work of opening the first ever branch of Asturias, and two new Reading Village graduates will fill their spots in the fellowship to start building this grassroots movement towards education for all.

«The New York City resolution is an important step in the growing, grassroots - powered national movement seeking to replace testing overkill with better, educationally sound forms of assessment.

The «walk - ins» were held before classes and were organized by a grassroots movement pushing for a 20 percent raise and more than $ 1 billion in new education funding.

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last wenew charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last weNew York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last weNew York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

The Institute also shared its new initiative, Climate in the Parks, with leaders around the country, beginning a grassroots park movement to shift the conversation about climate across our nation.

We also spoke endlessly about grassroots organizing strategy and they picked my brain on how to build a national grassroots network in Russia, like the one I've managed for Orion magazine, to underpin a new Russian ecology movement.

Also signing on are two energetic new grassroots groups that speak on behalf of much of the Tea Party movement: Tea Party Express and American Grassroots grassroots groups that speak on behalf of much of the Tea Party movement: Tea Party Express and American Grassroots Grassroots Coalition.

Yesterday we looked at the big picture: how the grassroots environmental movements of the 60s were quickly co-opted by the New Left and the Democrat Party, while providing employment for the «environmental activism industry» that grew up around the environmentalists» efforts.

As David Axelrod told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker in her extraordinary investigative article exposing the Koch brothers, «What they don't say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens» movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.»

And, with young and grassroots environmentalists more inspired by the vision of creating a new energy economy than regulating the old one, there's new hope that we will soon see the emergence of a more expansive, relevant, and powerful ecological movement, one grounded in possibilities, not limits.

When Bill McKibben, longtime global warming activist and author of The End of Nature, read these words, he started a new grassroots climate movement called 350.org «to make sure everyone knows the target so that our political leaders feel real pressure to act.»

a grassroots movement initiated by farmers, writers, chefs, eaters and policy advocates who recognize the profound sense of urgency in creating a new food system that is capable of meeting the changing needs of American society as it relates to food, health, animal welfare and the environment.

In the quarter century since a grassroots battered women's movement put partner violence on the national agenda, members of nearly every helping profession have wrestled with the task of integrating new information about abuse and new responsibilities toward its victims into existing professional paradigms and practices.