Sentences with phrase «grassroots movements»

In the face of unrelenting corporate development and encroachment onto Indigenous territories, grassroots movements are persistently mobilizing against the various tentacles of the tar sands industry.

During a period of three years, the members of the Commission and other contributors for its five working groups conducted 22 national consultation processes with representatives from local governments, academia, civil society, and grassroots movements.

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.

The loud protest was organised by Friends of the Earth International and civil society organisations, trade unions, and grassroots movements.

Grueso has been widely perceived as one of the most inspiring leaders at the forefront of Latin America's «Black environmentalism» movement, one of the most exciting and important grassroots movements in recent times for championing human rights and the environment against the pressures of the global economy and military repression.

La Via Campensina, one of the world's largest grassroots movements, is holding their seventh International Conference this July to advocate agroecology as the path towards Food Sovereignty.

This award honored 350.org's co-founders for their groundbreaking «design» of one of the most widespread global grassroots movements in history, and their efforts to raise awareness about the most threatening issue of our time: climate change.

It is equally clear that many grassroots movements which are seemingly local use narratives that appeal to a global audience.

Grassroots movements offer up a multitude of creative and inspiring ways for ordinary folks to get involved in changemaking, both from the bottom up, and as a conversation space through which we can come to terms with our own power to make a difference.

Earth in Brackets led a workshop on linking grassroots movements for a global effort.

Grassroots movements are gaining traction the world over, building on what momentum there is.

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

The world is a system, and it will soon be a very different world, driven by millions of communities who believe that democracy and restoration are grassroots movements that connect us to values that we hold in common.»

His art and activist practices are influenced by the grassroots movements of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, as well as the formal and conceptual strategies of post-minimalist artists.

By bringing us in, however, they opened the door to grassroots movements connected to the following strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle, Free Palestine, Black Liberation, Global Wage Workers, De-Gentrification, and many more.

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.

There is also need to galvanize civil society and grassroots movements to catalyse change.

On the liberal side, grassroots movements are opposed to the standards as well as the how the Common Core provides funding in schools (in regards to what you have said).

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

«Dylan Wiliam's latest work seamlessly weaves research with practicality, big ideas with accessible classroom examples, and grassroots movements with global trends.

However, as this report documents, sweeping lobbying laws in 36 states threaten to strangle grassroots movements in red tape and bureaucratic regulation.

LG: The Liberian women peace movement demonstrated to the world that grassroots movements are essential to sustaining peace; that women in leadership positions are effective brokers for peace; and the importance of culturally relevant social justice movements.

Although awareness of dyslexia is steadily growing due to campaigns by grassroots movements like Decoding Dyslexia and national organizations like the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and the National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD), many educators are still unfamiliar with what dyslexia is and how to accommodate it in the classroom.

Digital Technologies have completely reshaped how we go about every aspect of our lives: • Financial: our jobs, online shopping and banking, automated trading • Social: email, mobiles, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Skype, blogs • Political: electronic voting, grassroots movements (Arab Spring) • Recreational: computer games, streaming video and music, augmented reality (Pokémon Go), fitness and activity monitoring (FitBit) • Educational: free access to information, web search (Google), collaborative resources (Wikipedia), online learning (Khan Academy) and MOOCs, learning analytics • Ethical: privacy and cyber security, data protection (Facebook, the census)

One of the most powerful tools available in a grassroots movements ~ and that has proven effective in the past ~ is boycotting a product or company that is using questionable or unethical practices.

* Create patient - driven grassroots movements and organizations to advocate effectively for the interests of patients with cancer to balance advocacy efforts of pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, pharmacy outlets and hospitals.

It is the nature of reform movements that, although grassroots movements can be instrumental, systemic change usually comes only when elite opinion moves to the side of change.

In the year 2000 I voted for Ralph Nader, not because I thought he would be President, but because his campaign gave tremendous encouragement, strength, and support to grassroots movements for change.

It is billed as «a candid conversation about what the shifting demographic landscape means for grassroots movements, political action, and civic engagement; how can we shape our democracy into one that is truly representative of the people being governed?»

Another major change from 2009 - at least thus far - is the absence of campaigns and grassroots movements to influence the policy.

New grassroots movements demanding affordable housing want more from politicians than empty words

Still, Gipson believes Cuomo is vulnerable in part because of the grassroots movements that have risen within the base of the Democratic Party in New York following President Trump's election.

So we started to create bylaws for a group that was called «Solidarity — a coalition of the grassroots movements.»

The recent grassroots movements popping up are showing that people are tired of deception.

Even though French mentions Lady Gaga and her little monsters disparagingly, I believe it's actually grassroots movements for equality and justice like hers that could possibly change the world and make it a better place.

They are the grassroots movements fighting poverty, political oppression and environmental destruction across the world.

Grassroots movements have led to the formation of new political parties as witness the «Greens» in the German Federal Republic and the Ecology Party in Britain.

In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

The subtitle tells the story: «The Grassroots Movements That Are Feeding the Hungry, Housing the Homeless, and Putting Americans Back to Work.»

She is joined by a growing list of musicians who have dabbled with Christian labels only to find true liberty in underground grassroots movements.

For the record: the movement for Black lives (inclusive of all the various national & local orgs & grassroots movements) was accused of not having clear policy initiatives.

While I'm often skeptical of the power of grassroots movements, this is one I love.

In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

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

Today, she's proud that this formerly grassroots movement has -LSB-...]

On June 29, a gathering was held at the Cochrane Legion by grassroots movement Alberta Can't Wait.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

Together, they're the first step in what she sees a real grassroots movement for concrete changes to gun laws.

Peacemaking is a grassroots movement that begins to sow seeds of hope that ripple positively into our global village.

I think we need to shy away from the bright and flashy showman's gospel and get back to the grassroots movement modeled so perfectly in the New Testament.