Sentences with phrase «grassroots movement fighting»
350 DC is also pushing for a local carbon rebate that would make polluters pay and reinvest revenue in our communities, and supporting Sunrise DC, a youth - led grassroots movement fighting to make climate justice a central political issue.
https://350.org/
They are the grassroots movements fighting poverty, political oppression and environmental destruction across the world.
Not exact matches
These issues are highlighted by sustained, creative grassroots campaigning and community - union alliances like the Fight for 15 movement.
Although many liberationists, like Gutierrez, strictly separate Marxist analysis and Christian theology, nonetheless, many grassroots Christian movements in the 1960s and 1970s joined socialist parties fighting against oppressive governments.
In positive terms, we, unlike NO, have at least now built up a kind of grassroots movement - base that could be mobilised e.g. to fight for PR - based Lords reform (on which, see my guest post over at LiBDemVoice.
«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 is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for new and stronger solutions to lax gun laws and loopholes.
In the end, the book is a fascinating glimpse into a grassroots political party that has become the largest in New York State and for good reason: It's fusion politics that gives movements like the Independence Party a fighting chance in New York, and for this very reason it is often at odds with Democrats who seek one party control by eliminating fusion politics altogether.
«Her work in Albany as well as her grassroots efforts to uplift the Long Island community will make her a strong addition to the Senate Democratic Party and her dedication to fight for the public interest of New Yorkers make her a true supporter of the progressive movement.»
«VOICE / CSEA is a moving story of a hard - fought, long - term grassroots campaign that transformed from a small gathering of people determined to unite for change, to a statewide movement making a difference for the child care providers, children and working families of our state,» said CSEA Executive Vice President Mary Sullivan.
Hawkins said he will give voice to the next demand of the grassroots movement that fought for the ban on fracking, which is a ban on all new fossil fuel infrastructure in the state.
Though the campaign was defeated at the ballot box earlier this month, it has still created a strong grassroots movement that will continue to fight for fair school funding.
For the past eight years, the Texas conservative grassroots movement has led the fight against federal failures on everything from Obamacare to lax border security and non-enforcement of immigration laws.
She will discuss the various roles that art and activism play in her work with grassroots movements across the country — from the historic fight to reclaim Richmond, Virginia's African Burial Ground to the deeply embattled struggle over water privatization in Detroit and Flint, Michigan.
We need more strong members in Congress standing shoulder to shoulder with the growing grassroots movement across the country that is fighting for real changes — ones that rise to meet the greatest environmental challenges of our time.
While millions of us were touched by the effects of coal pollution — from contaminated waterways in Appalachia, to kids struggling with asthma near coal - fired power plants, to hurricanes and droughts and wildfires made worse by climate disruption — thanks to the huge strides made by the grassroots movement that is moving America beyond coal, we have a fighting chance of turning the corner on all of these problems.
The funding will provide a huge boost to the Sierra Club's grassroots anti-coal movement, and represents a huge victory for Judy Bond (2003) and Maria Gunnoe (2009)'s fight to protect Appalachia from mountaintop removal mining.
A strong grassroots movement in Bangladesh is fighting to protect the Sundarbans from coal development.
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The Idle No More movement continues to grow as a mobilization of grassroots indigenous people fighting against the ongoing erosion of indigenous rights across Canada and the world.