Sentences with phrase «grassroots groups like»

The result was grassroots groups like Legal Hackers (now with thousands of members and chapters on nearly every continent), more sophisticated syndicates like Evolve Law, and Law Made, and, of course, companies like ROSS Intelligence.

More astroturf «parent» groups: Wal * Mart funds fake grassroots groups like Stand for Children (millions) and Parent Revolution ($ 6.3 million) to push the parent trigger and other corporate privatization schemes.

In his message, Arne mentioned Educators 4 Excellence as an example of how, «As a country, we're beginning to change those dynamics and teachers are leading the change — through their unions or with grassroots groups like Teach Plus and Educators 4 Excellence.»

Grassroots groups like the Healing and Protecting our Land Together voice their concerns through prayers and song in Mount Kisco Sunday.

Unions have been major contributors to grassroots groups like Citizen Action, Make the Road Action and New York Communities for Change, which all endorsed Nixon last week.

Not exact matches

Facebook has helped give greater legitimacy to controversial organizations like ACT for America, a self - described national security grassroots advocacy group that has been accused of promoting Islamophobia, according to Beirich.

There's groups like Equal Justice USA and the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty and these groups, almost every state has a grassroots death penalty group that's working to abolish the death penalty.

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.

But Hunter says upstate Democrats are benefiting from the energy and interest that's fueling activism and marches throughout the country, like the women's marches and Indivisible grassroots groups.

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.

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.»

But I would like to point out that the anti-SAFE Act groups such as the coalition you wrote about and NY2A Grassroots Coalition are non-partisan.

The grassroots volunteer group said that Nigeria needs a Billionaire like President Trump of United States of America to lead the country come 2019.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams called for increased funding for grassroots anti-violence groups like Save Our Streets who were doing «the real work» in the wake of Gabay's death.

Like the Web itself, the Semantic Web would grow in a grassroots fashion, only this time aided by working groups within the World Wide Web Consortium, which helps to advance the global medium.

Furthermore, when it comes to grassroots organizing, the tea - party groups (like FreedomWorks) are much more effective.

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Education).

However, anytime I see «grassroots» groups promoting the agenda of the corporate education reformers, like what happened here in Washington State with charter school reform in 2012, I'm always compelled to follow the money.

If you can not find one, you may want to create a network of like - minded cat caregivers or possibly a grassroots group for your town.

-- Maintain an open dialogue with community grassroots conservation groups like Wildsight and The Elk River Alliance and other local organizations to communicate initiatives, management decisions, restrictions and openings when it is possible.

-- Maintain an open dialogue with community grassroots conservation groups like Wildsight, as well as other local organizations like the Fernie Trails Alliance, Fernie Nordic Club and Snowmobile Associations to communicate management decisions, restrictions and openings when possible.

a familiar pattern AFP has used for their other front groups: create a new stand alone website, fill it with lines like «We are people just like you» to give the site a grassroots feel, and then use the new group to recruit supporters and run deceptive advertisements attacking reform.

Groups like Citizens Climate Lobby are working hard to build up grassroots support for this policy.

Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).

The billionaire Koch brothers have long claimed that they have no direct connection to the Tea Party, denying that their vast oil wealth is directly funding corporate front groups like Americans For Prosperity, the key organizers of the fake grassroots Tea Party movement.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

In reality, the activists, especially in Canada, look less like grassroots groups than like subsidiaries of large U.S. institutional donors, many with billions of dollars of assets — organizations that have funneled colossal amounts of money to anti-oil sands groups over the past decade.