Sentences with phrase «by grassroots groups»

After a long time of lobbying by grassroots groups (it was all the way back in 2008 that we saw the petition circulating to add the feature), we finally have a thorough set of directions for alternative transportation, rounding out the walk there and public transit features.

The #OurPowerPR Solidarity Brigade arrives in Puerto Rico 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.

[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.

She has been endorsed by grassroots groups in central New York, including local Indivisible chapters.

The lawsuit was filed by a grassroots group after the Veladero mine in northwestern Argentina spilled cyanide into the Jáchal watershed in September 2015.

Established in 1999 as a non-profit organization by a grassroots group of charter school operators, it provides advocacy, support, resources, and networking opportunities to new and existing charter schools, parents and students.

Not exact matches

Patagonia's statement combines both their values — high - quality products and their values of helping the environment by donating time, services, and at least 1 percent of their sales to global grassroots environmental groups.

Alberta Can't Wait, the grassroots group calling for unification of the Alberta conservative parties, will be speaking at the Monday September 17 membership meeting hosted by the Peace...

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

According to Common Cause NY, which is providing the data employed by local groups in these grassroots events, two of every three dollars Saland has received since 2005 came from donors who live outside his Hudson Valley district, and 96 percent of his contributions were higher than $ 200.

At 10:15 a.m., the True Blue NY Grassroots Coalition, made up of more than 60 resistance groups, will announce their endorsements of challengers in five districts represented by Senators in the IDC, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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.

Balter has been endorsed by the party committees and is supported by several grassroots groups.

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 group was joined by more than 100 grassroots community activists as they blocked off the State Street entrance of the Capitol Building in Albany.

The harsh assessment and decision by Perez Williams set off a firestorm among grassroots Democratic groups and party activists in Central New York who support Balter and view the challenge by Perez Williams as a betrayal.

But Mourdock, who was supported by local and national conservative grassroots groups early in his bid, reiterated his vow to stand by his convictions, which he said include rolling back the size of government and lowering taxes.

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

For this reason, we decided to join the growing number of grassroots groups pushing Gov. Cuomo's conservative fiscal reform by contacting our Senator and Assemblyman.

Groups like Save New York have become increasingly common in Albany, as lobbying as morphed into a collection of «grassroots» third - party coalition that Common Cause has knocked for lacking transparency by hiding donors.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

Alcohol was banned by Congress through Amendment 18 in 1917 because of Protestant protest groups and grassroot campaigns from several Woman's Rights Movement organizations.

The largest donations to political candidates or groups was a $ 6,000 consulting fee paid to the Unity Coalition, a political group on Buffalo's East Side, followed by $ 2,260 for Byron Brown for Mayor and $ 1,360 for print advertisements and donations to the Grassroots political organization, a longtime supporter of the mayor.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

The group itself says it is funded by small - dollar donors raised from «grassroots» contributions.

By far the biggest donation from the firm is # 1.9 m that it gave in the form of «non-cash» to the anti-EU group Grassroots Out.

Dustin Reidy, the primary organizer of Resistance Voter Registration and the NY19Votes campaign, states, «By holding the nation's first grassroots, all - volunteer canvass action, our district has led the way for Resistance groups across the U.S..

Utilizing online tools for mobilization, Leah worked with a team of co-organizers to help the grassroots group grow from 12 people at its first meeting in January 2007 to over 2,000 members by Inauguration Day in January 2009.

Dickinson, Muratori and Hurley had been swept into office in 2011, backed by the upstart grassroots Lake George Citizens Group, earning a spot in local political history as they defeated a slate of popular incumbent Republican candidates.

In the summer of 2009, Greater NYC for Change, in partnership with a coalition of grassroots groups, collected 2,500 personal accounts to demand health care reform legislation by the end of the year.

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

Ulster People for Justice and Democracy, inspired by the Bernie Sanders campaign for President, is a grassroots group in Ulster County, NY, building an inclusive, responsive democracy through advocacy, education, and direct political action.

asked Rob Robinson, a housing organizer with Picture the Homeless, a grassroots group run by homeless and formerly homeless people.

Like the Web itself, the Semantic Web would grow in a grassroots fashion, only this time aided by working groups within the World Wide Web Consortium, which helps to advance the global medium.

Wickens cites a «huge cry of concern» by 71 grassroots groups protesting a WWF effort to set up a certification scheme for shrimp aquaculture.

It takes place in the early 1990s, following a group of grassroots activists in Paris trying to combat public and bureaucratic indifference with regard to the AIDS epidemic, for which potential pharmaceutical remedies are being sidetracked by sociopolitical obstacles.

FairTest stands with many grassroots civil rights, parent, educator, and community groups in opposition to continuing the harmful consequences imposed by No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Our program began as a grassroots initiative, led by a group of dedicated volunteers helping twenty - nine 12th grade students at Garfield High School gain acceptance to college.

For too long, the relationship between grassroots community groups and teachers unions has been characterized by acrimony or distance.

Dear E3MN Members, From the beginning, we have been a grassroots group for teachers and by teachers.

She had advocated for a change in the discipline code for four years as a youth leader with Make the Road New York, a grassroots group that aims to empower Latino and working - class communities by advocating for education, housing, and labor - rights issues.

5) National: Sydney Boles and Rowan Lynam analyze how grassroots campaigns defeated efforts, especially in Elkhart, Indiana, by CoreCivic and GEO Group to open for - profit prisons.

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.

In «United Front: Teachers Unions Quietly Spend Millions on «Grassroots» Groups» The 74's David Cantor reveals that the «grassroots organization» has been created, funded, and directed by two of the nation's largest political contributors — you guessed it — the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education AsGrassroots» Groups» The 74's David Cantor reveals that the «grassroots organization» has been created, funded, and directed by two of the nation's largest political contributors — you guessed it — the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Asgrassroots organization» has been created, funded, and directed by two of the nation's largest political contributors — you guessed it — the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.

Tuesday night Clark Rising, a grassroots group of Clark Elementary School parents, SAND Elementary School parents and local public school advocates joined forces to fight back against the corporate takeover of both schools by Achievement First, Inc. and Capital Preparatory Magnet School, respectively.

According to Julia Sass Rubin, a parent and member of the grassroots group Save Our Schools New Jersey, a PAA affiliate, «If a traditional public school converts to a charter schools, it affects the education of every child in that community by drawing critical resources from the traditional public school system.

Parents Across America was established early in 2011 by a group of grassroots leaders from around the country, who sought to pool ideas and resources to advocate for better schools for all this country's children.

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.»

By the way, pictured above is my co-presenter Nesta Aharoni of the Grassroots Publishing Group.

The Guild has been working closely with the grassroots group Authors United — founded by Authors Guild Council Member Douglas Preston — which will be making another request to the Department of Justice to investigate Amazon for potential antitrust violations.