Sentences with phrase «grassroots movement pushing»

The «walk - ins» were held before classes and were organized by a grassroots movement pushing for a 20 percent raise and more than $ 1 billion in new education funding.

No movement in the history of our country has been able to achieve the scale and transformative change needed in public education without a powerful, informed grassroots movement pushing for it.

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From this angle, the regionalist parties that are emerging in the North of England have a great potential, especially if they succeed in joining forces with civil society organisation and movements, mobilising grassroots support and pushing for the creation of some form of «Northern Constitutional Convention» capable of influencing decision and policy - making at the centre.

To attain this vision, we will need grasstops and grassroots movements to push for state - level radical reform.

We need a grassroots - movement to push Congress past the tipping point so that they can keep their jobs whole working for us, rather than be bullied into submission by the fossil fuel industry.

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.

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.