Sentences with phrase «citizen movement»

A global citizens movement that engages masses of people for a Great Transition remains latent, ready to be born.

We will take these questions and considerations as one part of our learning journey together in building a global citizens movement.

«One of the most exciting and promising proposals is for members of Friendship Force and Global Green, along with other similarly - focused organizations, to travel around the world on Peace Boat to ignite a global citizen movement for our shared objectives of positive change,» said Snook.

It lacks the checks and balances of parliaments and organized citizen movements, and it pivots on patronage systems built on kinship and ethnic hierarchies.

G. Seek inclusion for local cable programmers, local public radio broadcasters, computer network operators and similar professionals operating in the public interest as members of training delegations going to developing nations in order to propagate the concept of a vigorous, involved public citizen movement.

A family friend who belongs to Bread for the World (BFW), the Christian citizens movement to combat hunger, asked him to look into the issue.

Since there's a current HNQ Q&A on the site discussing «state of emergency», I remembered a piece in Tom Clancy's novel «Executive Orders», where the characters discuss validity of certain Presidential actions (specifics don't particularly matter to the question, but they pertained to implementing domestic quarantine via restricting citizen movements to deal with biological weapon attack; which fits the theme of that Q&A).

New citizen movements, such as the indignados in Spain, and Occupy in other countries, have articulated a sense that there must be an alternative.

david lloyd of direct democracy ireland - a national citizens movement for the wexford constituency

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Such a global citizens movement would catalyze for a peaceful and prosperous new world that generates widespread happiness and contentment — thus propagating widespread practices of mindful intentional action.

«You will see a citizens movement unlike you've ever seen before because of the disgust and the disdain for how our state government and our democracy operates and you will see people coming forward to run,» Dadey said.

This manifesto calls for action that helps move simultaneously toward a more localized socio - economic structure and toward a supra - national mindset that helps us transcend the parochial concerns of a corporate - capitalistic globalization to activate a global citizens movement.

The Widening Circle (TWC), a campaign for a global citizens movement, joining forces in Rio de Janeiro to see beyond the summit and plan collectively our transition to the great transition towards sustainable futures.

Grant Cullen, president and founder of the citizens movement Empower Mississippi, is also pointing out that Republicans «have increased spending on education every year since they took control in 2001,» although 42 For Better Schools disputes that.

In this hour, we'll document the citizen movement rising up in islands across the Pacific in the face of rising sea levels swallowing land and transforming lives from Fiji to Kiribati and beyond.

It is a victory for grassroots civil liberties organisations and citizen movements: the preliminary references stemmed from actions taken by Digital Rights Ireland — an NGO — and just under 12,000 Austrian residents.