Sentences with phrase «grass roots activists»

== > «However they are grass roots activists and wield power way beyond their numbers especially in certain cantons,»

It will bring together political leaders, academics, and grass roots activists to share successful strategies to combat caste discrimination and help victims of Untouchability.

A civil war has erupted within the Working Families Party over whether to back Cuomo for re-election, with labor leaders who support the governor pitted against party leaders and grass roots activists.

It also intermittently interweaves illustrative file footage of suffering and decadence into the production to help drive home the aging grass roots activist's salient points.

Halls of Shame go against ALL Green Party ethics and policies (a relative is a press officer for the Greens and former editor of Greenworld and a parliamentary candidate, a very nice person that is truly green, this reflects on all the grass root activists who do have the best intentions)

Not exact matches

Hence, Wallis proclaims the need for a new politics that will transcend liberalism and conservatism, The tenets of this new politics, he says, come from the grass roots - from unconventional, innovative moral activists on the frontlines of

Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.

What was once a balanced group of grass - roots activists affiliated with groups like Citizen Action and the Long Island Progressive Coalition and labor unions has tilted a bit toward the activists.

Their new Collactive platform takes the drudgery out of grass - roots action, letting armchair activists fill out online petitions, file comments in rule - making proceedings, send letters to their representatives in Congress and seed collaborative web forums with sympathetic news items — all with the push of a button.

All future campaigns will study and try to emulate the strategies and techniques his team employed in raising money, raising awareness and building a grass - roots network of supporters and activists.

The political activist group Citizen Action has endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon — the second grass - roots organization to endorse the New York City actor in two days.

«It's not just strong grass - roots support... You have to have everybody, not just the activists in D.C.»

«Volunteers, activists and grass - roots supporters are pulling together for Cruz, knowing this is careening toward New York in an important way,» said Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, an evangelical lobbying group that represents 640 churches.

The Democratic majority was only three weeks old, but by Jan. 26, the grass - roots and Net - roots activists of the party's left wing had already settled on their new enemy: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D - Calif.)

Now, Pellegrino, a reading teacher from West Islip who helped found a grass - roots activist group of former Bernie Sanders supporters, had a county executive, a county party chairman and the state comptroller at a fundraiser where the turnout, at 150, more than doubled what organizers had anticipated.

He summarizes the DCCC's approach as «arm [ing] the rebels» — training a national network of activists and potential campaign staffers while deploying organizers into districts they see as particularly vulnerable to help rally the local grass roots.

«I'm more of a grass roots, bottom - up type of activist; whereas I believe Caroline is more centrist,» he says.

«The grass - roots activists in the party were skeptical of her at first, but she has won everyone over,» said Adele Malpass, chair of the Manhattan Republican Party.

He ennobled Maurice Glasman, a great believer (and participant) in grass - roots democracy, and he hired Arnie Graf, the American veteran campaigner who had mentored Barack Obama in his early days as a young activist in Chicago, to inject the Labour party with the movement politics spirit.

Shabazz, a grass - roots activist with no prior political experience, came late to the race.

Liberal groups are employing top - shelf political tactics in their grass - roots advocacy campaigns, driven by the memory of being outflanked by conservative activists in the summer of 2009.

Over the last several years, a grass - roots campaign by criminal justice reform activists, former inmates and local politicians have held protests demanding that the jail complex be shut down.

That has not kept Mr. Cornyn from attending numerous Republican county dinners this summer and meeting with grass - roots activists.

Not just as a spouse who knows him intimately, but as a deft political mind in her own right: a feminist activist who understands grass - roots organizing, a liberal champion of the working class and an experienced author who has written speeches for leading New York officials.

Some Republican grass - roots activists cheered the ouster on Friday of Reince Priebus, a former party chairman, as White House chief of staff, and his replacement with John F. Kelly, a retired Marine general.

When the LibDem grass - roots activists start to turn against the coalition their MPs can't ignore them for long.

Minning's candidacy has also frustrated some of Grayson's most loyal allies in his district, many of whom are supporting Susannah Randolph — Grayson's former district director and political adviser who has close ties to the grass - roots progressive activists in Orlando.

The saga of the Florida Tea Party, the third - party ticket that grass - roots activists accuse of being a front for Rep. Alan Grayson (D - Fla.)

Where supporters once hoped that she could be toughened and pushed strategically on some key issues, the campaign to ban fracking started with grass - roots activists.

Steele sought to silence those critics by noting that since assuming the national committee chairmanship he has traveled to 23 states meeting with grass - roots activists, while at the same time turning a deaf ear to the talk in the nation's capital.

• The grass roots must start making friends, making the point that in times past attempts at Lib - Labbery had been attempted by «party elites» and now needs to be attempted by activists: «There needs to be a much better relationship between the two parties,» he says

The party establishment, still in rebuilding mode heading into next year's midterm elections, watched helplessly this weekend as Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava was driven from the race by grass - roots activists in favor of a more conservative candidate.

He added that if more members of trade unions were to join Labour it would «transform the party» with thousands of activists with strong opinions working at grass - roots levels.

Some might see the film as lionizing Gore, but it's a fascinating primer on how to engage and train citizen activists, from the grass roots to the corridors of power.

As might be expected, free thinkers and activists are attracted to reKiosk, as it aligns with their grass - roots ideologies.

Sonali Gulati is a feminist, grass - roots activist, filmmaker and educator who grew up in New Delhi, India and has made several short films that have screened at over three hundred film festivals worldwide, such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival.

(I have a note out to Susan for the date of that show) Activists, both institutional and grass roots, promised to step it if he allowed a single well.

Winning politician was former mayor of London Ken Livingstone, and winning grass roots campaigner was Anna Heywood, a student activist.

Rather, Strassel declared, «The real target is a broad array of conservative activist groups that are highly effective at mobilizing the grass - roots and countering liberal talking points.»