Sentences with phrase «grassroots movement does»

No new grassroots movement doing anything beyond sit - ins and marches.

Not exact matches

Much of the media coverage has followed the Tea Party movement's own narrative, which describes it as a grassroots group of libertarian - leaning and independent - minded Americans who have grown disgusted with Washington - a group not beholden to either party, willing to buck conventional politics to get things done.

I saw and knew too much about the truth behind the textile industry, things we don't see and hear every day so after some years in the field meeting with amazing NGOs, grassroots organizations and a growing movement of organic farmers, it was time for positive change and I combined my love for the Earth, humanity and sustainable design to create Bhumi Organic Cotton.

We have the one thing the NFL doesn't have in Europe: a grassroots movement, which is necessary for any sport to succeed.»

Here's one thing Democrats and the progressive movement can do to help right now: launch a grassroots - focused campaign to leverage the millions of people who have solid health insurance thanks to Barack Obama and the Democrats.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

The 31,000 followers are patchily spread, although Yasmine Dar, Jon Lansman and Rachel Garnham comfortably topping the NEC poll did build on the grassroots movement's muscle flexing at last year's annual conference.

«The best comparison is [Howard] Dean, who didn't win the nomination but had a grassroots movement that wanted him to stay in the fight and wanted to built something new themselves,» says Rospars.

This emphasis on small donations is also an indication of the true grassroots nature of much of the Tea Party organizing, no matter how much establishment figures like Dick Armey and FreedomWorks might try to hijack the movement (note to Dick: REAL Tea Partiers don't compromise, not even in November).

It also comes as mainline Democrats show support for the Occupy movement, a more or less grassroots demonstration that captured public sentiment on income inequality and taxes after more traditional liberal groups failed to do so.

The first community labs opened three years ago and became embodiments of the nascent Do - It - Yourself Biology community, a grassroots movement of enthusiasts seeking to popularize biotechnology just as programmers working from their garages popularized computing in the 1970s.

The initiative is an attempted, kind of, grassroots intellectual movement to come up with a series of ideas that will move us towards a more stable economic arena, [in] which the middle - class gets more benefits than it is getting now from the wealth in this country, and also puts the country on a trajectory that supports the good things the country has traditionally done.

Don't make the mistake of thinking gamification is a grassroots movement for small businesses: Huge corporations are utilizing the motivating power of gaming to help improve the hiring process, check employee performance and even identify potential leaders within the organization.

«I don't trust these people and I have faith in the district, and this is not a grassroots movement like they've tried to paint it.»

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

And I think there has been a grassroots movement among people to be proactive in their own lives, by doing things like reducing their cholesterol [intake] rather than ending up having to take a pill every day.

Now, again, I and many others have said that the environmental movement has not done a good job of creating a grassroots movement on climate that might cause the kind of concern in people contemplating voting against needed to win those 60 votes.

That means that we need to have grassroots movements in 49 states (sorry Wisconsin, but you guys don't use the IRC).

Gore wanted these young, tech - savvy attendees to start a grassroots movement using social media like they did when «net neutrality was threatened or when the Stop Online Piracy Act threatened to blacklist websites that offered so - called illegal content,» said Macworld.

As David Axelrod told Jane Mayer of The New Yorker in her extraordinary investigative article exposing the Koch brothers, «What they don't say is that, in part, this is a grassroots citizens» movement brought to you by a bunch of oil billionaires.»

A grassroots movement emerged with local communities developing do - it - yourself networks that supplied the initiative, know - how and training for the construction and installation of solar water heaters.

And then some environmental leaders told me they don't believe Congress could pass national climate change legislation, given the conservative opposition, so they would rather grow their grassroots movements locally.

«Bitcoin Gold does have some grassroots support and I think there are people who do have this idealistic notion that mining should be more decentralized... a common cause that could rally people together in an organic sort of movement,» Lombrozo said.