Sentences with phrase «grassroots groups in»

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.

Through its newsletter and quarterly journal as well as its annual conference, the FPEAA supports radical adult education in many forms from simplicity circles to participatory action research to other grassroots groups in cultural work, environmental work, economic work, and community leadership.

She has the support of grassroots groups in the district.

NEW YORK, NY (12/06/2011)(readMedia)-- The New Deal for New York — a coalition of grassroots groups in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers, and New York City — today joined with allied organizations to support a progressive taxation plan that would create new tax brackets on the highest income earners and generate about $ 5 billion for the state.

The committee has been airing targeted digital advertisements against Faso and organizing grassroots groups in the district, Lukaske said.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Since meeting for the first time in 2007, this grassroots group has grown to 107 members across the country.

The principal threat came from violent Islamist groups using the cartoons «to provoke grassroots jihadists to conduct violent attacks in the west», Stewart said.

«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.

The idea of social enterprise first came to China in 2004, and as elsewhere, often remains intertwined with the work of non-profit and grassroots groups.

As a grassroots community organizer, I spend a lot of time in coalition and task force meetings, working groups and speaking events.

In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

In 2012, a group of thought leaders, philanthropists, social media and grassroots organizations joined with the 92nd St Y and the United Nations Foundation to propose an alternative answer to these questions.

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

• 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

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg, Jim Webb's campaign manager.

MSI is interested in hearing from any group or grassroots organisation interested in becoming a «country page contributor» for any country currently not assigned one.

Hon Nii Lante Vanderpuye who is known as a grassroot man and the longest serving Assembly Member in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly used the occasion to engage opinion leaders from the various ethnic groups in the Old Fadama and Kokomba Yam Market community and members of the National Democratic Congress in his constituency to share ideas on how to mobilize people and make the Party more appealing to the constituents.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

We have to act together in any and all capacities that we can, whether as grassroots groups, community organizations, charities, unions, activists, universities and, most of all, as citizens, without asking for permission or waiting for public funding.

His large - scale Facebook outreach reached voters in groups large and small in critical areas of the country, and the bulk of the campaign's late funding came through grassroots donors identified and recruited via Facebook ads (even if they often gave the money in response to a subsequent email appeal).

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.

Traditional nonprofits and activist groups are happy to get in on the act, but the energy is coming straight from the grassroots.

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.

But the challengers have all remained defiant in the wake of the deal, and grassroots groups have also made it clear they will continue to organize against the IDC.

Rachel is also a grassroots progressive leader, active in groups including Uplift Syracuse, the CNY Solidarity Coalition, and the Campaign for New York Health, which advocates for a single - payer healthcare system across New York State.

Grassroots campaign group Momentum said its thousands of activists had helped to boost Labour's showing in a series of key areas, including Trafford, where the Conservatives lost control, and Wandsworth.

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg...

The majority of Ukip politicians, including Farage support the cross-party group «Grassroots Out» (GO) while Carswell, who defected from the Conservatives in 2014, backs the Vote Leave group.

Plus, we went into Ready For Hillary's own GOTV work as well as the implications of a «grassroots superPAC» like RFH to change the way independent expenditure groups do business in the future.

We held a meeting I think sometime in December where we invited all these different grassroots groups to come and explain what they thought the top three priorities that needed to be done in order to make «New Iceland».

But unlike many nonprofits and advocacy groups, OFA has a grassroots base in every state, and they have enough members to actually get a decent showing at events in a lot of districts.

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.

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.

The curious dance of Saturday's proceedings comes as the WFP, originally formed as a coalition between labor unions and grassroots activist groups, has been somewhat depleted after the exodus of Cuomo - allied unions and is fighting to remain a force in liberal New York.

In 2012, he founded Conservative pressure group Conservative Voice together with Liam Fox to extend the grassroots voice of members which he thought was getting lost in the partIn 2012, he founded Conservative pressure group Conservative Voice together with Liam Fox to extend the grassroots voice of members which he thought was getting lost in the partin the party.

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.

The grassroots activist group Momentum has been holding high - profile campaign days in the target councils of Barnet, Wandsworth, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, aiming to recapture some of the energy that led to Jeremy Corbyn's surge late in the general election campaign.

Democracy for America said it would mobilize its grassroots supporters for Kingson, whom the group chose over Democratic rivals Colleen Deacon, of Syracuse, and Steve Williams, of Baldwinsville, in the 24th Congressional District primary.

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 ``.

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.

«We started the Marching into ’18 Program last spring to organize grassroots groups and make sure they are prepared to help in the general election,» Lukaske said.

Anderson also cited the importance of «a powerful, dynamic voice in one of the houses of state legislature — like we have now with Markey — who has a strong partnership with grassroots groups.»

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, is a visiting assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University who has been active with the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group that formed in response to President Donald Trump's election last year.

The Zongo for NDC is a grassroots group, whose main aim is to mobilize support for the party in all Zongo communities across the country.

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.