Sentences with phrase «grassroots groups pushing»
For this reason, we decided to join the growing number of grassroots groups pushing Gov. Cuomo's conservative fiscal reform by contacting our Senator and Assemblyman.
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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.
Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school support.
Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.
The speaker is scheduled to arrive in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday for a meeting with the One ID Columbus Coalition — a grassroots group which includes labor unions and faith based groups that have pushed for the city to install a municipal identification program.
In California, local grassroots groups have been successful in pushing polluters to clean up their communities and compelling government agencies to protect residents from the consequences of a warming planet.
A grassroots group of advocates pushing to repeal the class size mandate is planning a rally Saturday in Raleigh.
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.
Active in several local and national parent groups focused on education, Julie Woestehoff reported grassroots support for resisting the federally funded push to tie teacher jobs and compensation to test scores.
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).
We learned from the PBS» «Climate of Doubt» that during the last four years, the momentum was lost by those who called for climate action and gained by a small group of skeptics who rallied the Tea Party grassroots movement to push the issue off the agenda.
Grassroots groups engaging in and training for direct action such as the Tar Sands Blockade, Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, the Unist» ot» en Camp, and Moccasins on the Ground have shown us how direct action can empower local communities and push establishment green groups to embrace bolder tactics.