Sentences with phrase «grassroots movement around»

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In major cities around the world, the YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) movement has risen up in a grassroots way to help address affordability for everyone.

I'm one of the co-founders of #FairTuesday, a grassroots movement that unites over 150 fair trade, ethical and eco-friendly organizations around the globe to give jobs to artisans and farmers whose lives depend on our purchases.

Smith admits it's an unlikely outcome, but believes if Richards is drafted by this grassroots movement he'll be compelled to stick around.

In short, it becomes very difficult to care about a grassroots movement when all we see are actors standing around listening to a particularly high - profile thespian delivering his soap box speeches.

As the wreckage was revealed, rescue requests turned into links for Principals Helping Principals, a grassroots movement that was matching Houston schools in need with schools around the country that were willing to help.

In 2005, Colleen Page began a grassroots movement to help find forever homes for cats in need and National Cat Day helps heighten the awareness of the plight of shelter cats around the country.

The Institute also shared its new initiative, Climate in the Parks, with leaders around the country, beginning a grassroots park movement to shift the conversation about climate across our nation.

Like any grassroots movement it takes time to garner the attention of the masses, but make enough noise and people will start paying attention, and if the noise is worth listening to and the product worth watching, they'll stick around.

Yesterday we looked at the big picture: how the grassroots environmental movements of the 60s were quickly co-opted by the New Left and the Democrat Party, while providing employment for the «environmental activism industry» that grew up around the environmentalists» efforts.

This work initiated in 2013, has sparked t the development of regional agroecology encounters and formation processes around the Nation that include grassroots farmworker organizations as well as international partners, overlapping work with critical national coalitions and organizations in the food, agriculture and climate movement.

Over the last three months, Hansen and dozens of the world's top scientists and leading conservationists have issued a series of public letters on the need for fair treatment of nuclear power, while a grassroots movement has swelled around the world.

Watching the mobilization of students around the country in a grassroots movement fostered by their peers in response to the February 14 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., McGuire felt that the entertainment community could unite to amplify the students» own message.

API has been a quiet grassroots parenting movement that has grown to 60 support groups around the country during the last 16 years, proving its worth and long - term impact.