Sentences with phrase «grass roots organizing»

Three days after his election, he transformed his campaign apparatus into a «grass roots organizing» agency — Organizing for America.

If we can't make inroads on the national level, we can and should advocate for policies on the state or local level through old - fashioned grass roots organizing, building a movement from within the field itself.

The group uses its web site, issue alerts, grass roots organizing and media outreach to increase its numbers and raise awareness about the orchestrated threat to Florida public education.

It's a firsthand lesson in the Constitution, political science, grass roots organizing, campaigning and old - fashioned civics.

Her political activity began in college and her involvement in grass roots organizing continues today.

Not exact matches

Westergren has lobbied Congress and organized a grass - roots campaign of millions of Internet radio listeners.

At a time when political developments in Washington are generally discouraging to advocates for economic justice, faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

Faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

See also Steven Rose, The Grass Roots Church: A Manifesto for Protestant Renewal (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966), which poses a more visionary structure of Christians organized not in congregations but in clusters for service and teaching.

«Our campaign is focused on building the tools and technology that helps us raise more grass - roots donations, organize more volunteers, reach more persuadable voters and optimize everything we do, whether or not it drives headlines,» Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson wrote in an email.

«What this showed is that Cynthia Nixon has been a supporter of grass - roots organizing for years and years and years,» he said.

«The two pledged immediate cooperation in combating the Republican tax plan and in supporting grass roots progressive organizing locally and nationally,» according to the statement from de Blasio's office.

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.

This new paradigm will force the politicians to get more involved in grass roots, community organizing efforts in order to get millions of people to support them instead of millions of dollars from a few insiders.

Senate Democrats have already put $ 10 million into turnout for contested races and began a detailed voter - identification effort months ago, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has brought on grass - roots organizing expert Michael Whouley to head up its turnout efforts.

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.

Seven Koch - backed groups spent roughly $ 77 million on television advertising, officials said, including 11 Senate races, and almost double that amount on grass - roots organizing.

The 185,000 - plus students who opted out of the state English Language Arts [ELA] test last week did so because of more than three years of organizing by a genuinely grass - roots movement of public school parents.

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

That, plus a whole lot of grass - roots organizing for the past few years, is the biggest reason the opt - out movement has gotten so big in New York.

Resolution SRC - 3 is the culmination of strong grass - roots organizing.

The report found that «widespread public awareness of the damage caused by the overuse and misuse of standardized testing, coupled with effective grass - roots organizing by parents, teachers, students and their allies, is increasingly producing positive changes in state and district testing practices.»

As a group, the District D teachers did not arrive at MELAF with the camaraderie of District A's participants, nor did they experience the grass - roots organizing of District B's teachers.

Oklahoma Humane Federation board member Misti Stewart of neighboring Pittsburg County organized a grass roots legislative training session in McAlester.

Kenny came to The HSUS with a background in social work, teaching and grass roots community organizing.

Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.

It challenges ideological rigidity with its picture of grass - roots self - organizing activity.

Most of them will engage in grass - roots organizing, but some will work on lawsuits or social networking.

What followed was months of letter - writing, petitions, and grass - roots organizing to persuade DWP to allow more affordable solar installations through leasing programs costing less than your monthly electric bill with no upfront costs.

Most of the staff will engage in grass - roots organizing, but some will work on lawsuits or social networking.

Monsanto has now hired a Colorado flack and an St. Louis advertising firm to set up a «grass - roots organization» with a website that says it was «organized by farmers frustrated by the loss of safe and valuable management tools with no scientific justification and no economic compensation,» such as Monsanto's bovine growth hormone Posilac.

However, the «general public at large» stands to benefit, first and foremost, as well as industry insiders, from a volcanic upheaval from within the organized real estate industry via its grass roots practitioners.