Sentences with phrase «other grassroots groups»

Through its newsletter and quarterly journal as well as its annual conference, the FPEAA supports radical adult education in many forms from simplicity circles to participatory action research to other grassroots groups in cultural work, environmental work, economic work, and community leadership.

The plaintiffs in the case included the Camden County NAACP, and other grassroots groups including members of the #WeChoose Campaign and the Journey for Justice Alliance.

The infrastructure map, developed by SANE Energy Project and other grassroots groups can be found here: http://saneenergyproject.org/infrastructure-invasion/

Not exact matches

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

Obama's 2008 campaign remains the prime example, but many other groups on all parts of the political spectrum are building up grassroots donor bases with an eye toward repeating his success on behalf of their own issues.

Of course, you still need the right candidates and the right messages, but this new grassroots emphasis is a promising change from the brain - dead TV - buying - by - the - numbers strategy we saw from Crossroads GPS, the Romney campaign and so many other groups on the Right in 2012.

Last week I had the privilege of going on Karen Jagoda's Digital Politics Radio show, where we talked at length about the DSCC and other Democratic groups» grassroots outreach and media spending to try to salvage the 2014 elections, largely funded by small - dollar online donors.

The two groups — on one side Leave.EU and its offshoot Grassroots Out, on the other Vote Leave — have today submitted detailed applications to the Electoral Commission.

But other trade unions were initially concerned at what they regarded as a Unite stitch - up — and Jon Lansman, leader of the pro-Corbyn grassroots campaign group Momentum, put himself forward, complaining about «machine» politics inside Labour.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Lots of local grassroots football clubs and other community groups will get to use the site.

Other top charter lobbyists issued statements saying the NAACP let down the grassroots, but failed to reveal that the moratorium critics they cited were organized by industry - funded groups.

More astroturf «parent» groups: Wal * Mart funds fake grassroots groups like Stand for Children (millions) and Parent Revolution ($ 6.3 million) to push the parent trigger and other corporate privatization schemes.

In spring 2013, Anthony Cody and I, along with a group of other concerned educators formed the Network for Public Education in spring 2013, specifically to identify and encourage the many grassroots groups across the nation and to help them find one another.

By working together with my colleagues in PAA and other grassroots parent groups, including Save Duval Schools, 50th No More, the Florida state PTA, Fund Education Now, and Testing is Not Teaching, we managed to beat the richly - funded corporate reformers.»

-- Maintain an open dialogue with community grassroots conservation groups like Wildsight and The Elk River Alliance and other local organizations to communicate initiatives, management decisions, restrictions and openings when it is possible.

-- Maintain an open dialogue with community grassroots conservation groups like Wildsight, as well as other local organizations like the Fernie Trails Alliance, Fernie Nordic Club and Snowmobile Associations to communicate management decisions, restrictions and openings when possible.

Michelada Think Tank is a group of socially conscious artists who are interested in hosting conversations, creating safe place, opening opportunity to connect and build with other people of color (PoC) and allies who are socially engaged / community artists and grassroots activist type folks interested in creative ways of making change happen.

a familiar pattern AFP has used for their other front groups: create a new stand alone website, fill it with lines like «We are people just like you» to give the site a grassroots feel, and then use the new group to recruit supporters and run deceptive advertisements attacking reform.

The small group was inspired to form a new grassroots education, advocacy and activism network focused on climate change and other environmental issues.

Under PM's Vice President of Corporate Affairs Ellen Merlo, the department was responsible for the formation of the smokers rights front group the National Smokers Alliance, a fake «grassroots» group set up to protest public smoking laws, cigarette tax increases and other public health measures.

Grassroots groups, such as ICKD (Iskenderun Environmental Protection Association), Adana CETKO (Environmental Protection Association), and East Mediterranean Environmental Platform have been struggling against coal power plants, mines and other coal infrastructure to protect rights to live in a healthy environment has been going on since mid-90s.

The shadowy way front groups operate makes it difficult to know whether a seemingly independent grassroots is actually representing some other entity.

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] The #OurPowerPR Solidarity Brigade launched by the Climate Justice Alliance, Organización Boricuá, UPROSE, Black Dirt Farm Collective, Greenpeace, The Leap and 25 other partner organizations in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, arrive in Puerto Rico this month with three new delegations and 45 people to support «Just Recovery and Rebuild» projects focused on food, labor and energy sovereignty led by grassroots groups in Puerto Rico.

TransCanada's massive pipeline scheme is being challenged from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments, environmental and grassroots groups, and even from other pipeline companies.

Concerned both about the climate impacts and other health and environmental effects of coal, scores of grassroots groups worked to oppose the coal rush, advocating for cleaner sources of energy.

The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, an international group of US - based grass roots organisations, says there are only four years left to take the radical action needed if the Paris Agreement's ambitious target of keeping global average temperature rise at no more than 1 ° 5C above pre-industrial levels is to be achieved (Paris's other, more modest target is 2 °C).

To help spearhead a lot of that, there's been a lot of grassroots efforts within Yahoo! — there's a group called the Green Team who have spontaneously gotten together and have come up with a lot of these ideas — but we're always looking for other ideas from outside people, or inside people, on ways that as a corporation, we can reduce our footprint.

During a period of three years, the members of the Commission and other contributors for its five working groups conducted 22 national consultation processes with representatives from local governments, academia, civil society, and grassroots movements.

Others in the group include Julie Daniluk, host of The Healthy Gourmet; social entrepreneur Kelly Drennan, who is dedicated to greening the fashion industry; Rob Grand, owner of Canada's largest green lifestyle retailer, Grassroots Environmental Products; Ryan Wiseman, who has been active in the green / environment movement for 15 years; and Wayne Roberts, who manages the Toronto Food Policy and is a member of Toronto's Environmental Task Force.