Sentences with phrase «grass roots movements»

On top of the fragmentation within legal tech and the A2J community, there is little intersectionality in this space connecting to broader social justice and grass roots movements that are inherently related.

In that role, she coordinated all efforts of two national marches on Washington, the legislative lobbying strategies and the grass roots movements with a radio and petition campaign.

They are masters of muddying things up in order to confuse voters so that grass roots movements against their interests do not take form.

Grass roots movements are more genuine and have greater authority than outside agencies.

These applications will allow grass roots movements to: 1) Call contacts one after another from list 2) Automatically track number of attempts 3) Schedule / Track callbacks.

Politics from grass roots movements move slow like a snail but go on and on.

It also showed the need to develop a specific method for this type of contact in order that local needs can be taken into consideration while developing an analytical and global perspective with the heads of the grass roots movements.

Many have hope that Cleveland can recover by taking advantage of a growing grass roots movement to patronize small, local businesses, which are seeking to develop a larger, global presence.

Meanwhile, a very effective grass roots movement among the Negro people was started in the South.

This grass roots movement is full of ordinary people through whom God is doing amazing things.

A grass roots movement of sorts.

«It's very difficult to see how the current leadership could possibly unite the elements of the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party being a key part of the that,» he argues, before singling out the role of Momentum, the grass roots movement whose aim is «to build on the energy and enthusiasm from the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign», for its part in creating the current civil strife.

Media, PA About Blog Pathways to Family Wellness is a quarterly magazine and grass roots movement offering parents articles and resources to make conscious, informed choices for their families.

This could be the beginning of a grass roots movement in which more and more people are simply deciding that this is a good time to shop for a mortgage and buy a home.

A grass roots movement has been started to educate pet owners that their furry members of the family can also be afflicted.

We love spotlighting organizations that are doing their best to cut down on the abandoned animal populations in cities and towns through a grass roots movement involving everyone in the community.

When Repower / Senvion was spruiking the virtues of its planned 600Mw Ceres wind farm here in SA in 2012 its then head honcho «Pretty boy» in the face of an uproar from local citizens declared at a business lunch in Adelaide that «Opposition to wind farm development in South Australia is driven by political ideology dressed up as a grass roots movement.»

There is a burgeoning grass roots movement (described here, in part) to better document key temperature measurement stations both to better correct past measurements as well as to better understand the quality of the measurements we are getting.

Media, PA About Blog Pathways to Family Wellness is a quarterly magazine and grass roots movement offering parents articles and resources to make conscious, informed choices for their families.

The grass roots movement of our grass roots leaders, in my opinion, is precisely the opposite of what the CREA Directors have pursued.

This is a grass roots movement but its thanks to people like Brian, who is offering to help us, that we are starting to gain numbers and hopefully we can make an impact.

Not exact matches

For instance, just after Obama's November 2008 election, U.S. News & World Report proclaimed that, «The Web, a perfect medium for genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politics.

De Icaza, an intense Mexican American with a square jawline and spitfire delivery, and Friedman, a Charlottesville, Va., beanpole topped by a relaxed smile, were two of the golden boys of the open - source movement, a grass - roots campaign to let the source code of popular computer programs be free.

delivery, and Friedman, a Charlottesville, Va., beanpole topped by a relaxed smile, were two of the golden boys of the open - source movement, a grass - roots campaign to let the source code of popular computer programs be free.

With support of the CRLA Foundation, she co-founded Líderes Campesinas, in 1992, the first state - based farmworker women's unique grass roots organization that became a movement of campesina leaders advocating on behalf of campesinas.

How do you spark and build grass - roots movements?

Social reform movements that turn to lawsuits devote time and money that could be spent on grass - roots activity that might establish their goals more firmly among the people.

Pastors may be the only people in a position to open communications networks — by corresponding with other clergy all over the world to discuss how an international antiviolence movement can be created at the grass roots.

Gilbert often left the security of his study to join grass - roots movements.

A grass - roots movement to abolish secret government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold of the military - industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of elections may be at least theoretically conceivable.

Although many of the demonstrators share oppressive living conditions with Hindus and Muslims, the dramatic rise of militant Hindu movements (especially the Rama Sewak Sangh) and the Islamic counterpart (the ISS) makes interreligious dialogue difficult at the grass roots.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

But in some parts of the country a grass - roots movement of laid - off workers resisting the plant closures is exerting surprising pressure upon its own leadership, as the recent vote by the rank and file membership of United Auto Workers to defy its own leadership and decisively reject a wage agreement with Chrysler Corporation appears to indicate.

But many mainline Christians, including a number of those who, having been affected by the renewal movements that have swept through major denominations at the grass - roots level, seek a deeper spirituality are unhappy with the choice before them.

By the way, NO woman would have started a «grass roots» movement for the church.

However, for Crossan (and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures, defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.

At the meeting with the grass - roots movements will be intellectuals who hold their cause dear and work on analyses of the situation, since in order to provide focussed solutions and offer alternatives it is indispensable to arrive at a diagnostic which can globalize problems.

As a genuine grass - roots movement, Waldorf education always lives from the specific initiatives of specific people.

This app reaches out to its audience and asks it to participate directly in the Labour movement to carry out grass roots activity.

If anything, her higher profile because of the «Me Too» movement has translated into more campaign contributions from the grass roots.

He talked vaguely about reforming the system of party funding, showed great enthusiasm for the movement politics of grass - root associations such as Citizens UK and promised a people's power revolution.

«What's clear from today's joke deal is that the grass - roots movement demanding unity and courage has a lot of work to do to ensure that the whole Democratic Caucus is ready to fight when the time comes,» he said in an interview.

A grass - roots movement on social media has been urging women to #WearWhiteToVote in solidarity with the American suffragists, who adopted the color as one of their signatures and fought for what has now come (at least partly) to fruition: the first woman as a major party's candidate for president.

Its grass roots are based in the trade union movement, as its founder and former leader Joe Bossano was the District Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU).

In the aftermath of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, survivors pulled all - nighters, petitioned city councils and state lawmakers, and organized protests in a grass - roots movement.

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

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.

This is the first big step by Bloomberg — who has committed to spending $ 50 million of his personal fortune this year to build a national grass - roots movement that will pressure lawmakers to pass more restrictive gun laws — to devise a political strategy heading into the November elections.

«The network represents the power of a grass - roots movement,» said Pickett.

In 2010, when Gem County found itself ranked last in Idaho for healthy behaviors in the County Health Rankings report, members of the community started a grass - roots movement to improve public health.