Sentences with phrase «grassroots movements in»

B. 05-20-1872, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, U.S. social activist who began by organizing and taking part in grassroots movements in her native Kentucky battling for educational and health facilities.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I was intrigued to learn there is a grassroots movement in China to get people to finish all of their meals.

Members of the groups ghostwrote op - eds and prepared testimony in order to create the appearance of a grassroots movement in favor of development projects they were backing, the attorney general said.

We now know that the fiction that the Common Core State Standards are nationally agreed - upon standards that grew from some grassroots movement in the states is manufactured hype.

The Legislative Action Kit includes a comprehensive action plan for retailers to start a grassroots movement in their area and provides retailers with concrete ideas on building a coalition with customers, business associates and the media.

Our mission is to build and mobilize a powerful grassroots movement in this unique region that surrounds our nation's capital to call for state, national and international policies that will put us on a path to climate stability.

A strong grassroots movement in Bangladesh is fighting to protect the Sundarbans from coal development.

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«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

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

Trucking Moves America Forward aims to establish a long - term industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.

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 everyonIn 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 everyonIn My Back Yard) movement has risen up in a grassroots way to help address affordability for everyonin a grassroots way to help address affordability for everyone.

The Wildrose movement took root more than a decade ago, composed in part by disaffected Tories who felt the PCs had abandoned their commitment to fiscal conservatism and grassroots consultation.

Kevin Burch is co-chair of Trucking Moves America Forward which describes itself as an «industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.»

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.

The mission of Trucking Moves America Forward is to establish a long - term industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.

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

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

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.

Lay movements arose, among them the Union of Orthodox Fellowships, which brought together grassroots Christian initiatives from all over Russia in the fields of mission, charity, and youth work.

He is also the founder and director of Alongsiders International, a grassroots movement for vulnerable children in Asia and Africa.

During the 1970s and 80s, many thought that the theology of liberation would strengthen the Catholic Church through the grassroot movement of the CEBs, and that the CEBs, in turn, would raise the consciousness of the popular classes, bringing about serious social change.

Fithian is a grassroots activist in the global peace - oriented movement for social justice.

When the Church first got started, it was a grassroots movement of working class citizens in an occupied nation in a small corner of the Roman Empire.

They speak to the fact that there is a grassroots movement afoot that transcends old labels and that may very well give us a glimpse of the future of Christianity in America.

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.

Why the former head of the Christian Coalition is drawing attention as a leader in the grassroots conservative movement.

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 1989In 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 1989in 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 1989in 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 1989in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

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.

Ziegler writes: «[F] or the better part of a decade after the Court's decision, the vast majority of lawyers, law professors, and grassroots activists in the antiabortion movement opposed efforts to strip the Court of its authority or to return the abortion question to democratic politics....

The Fair Food Challenge is inspired by the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a grassroots movement that begun in 2007 in the United States.

The Regional Learning and Exchange Platfrom for Facilitating Change Processes towards Food Sovereignty (RLEP) is a three - year series of workshops that «deals with acquiring or deepening concepts... of participatory methods for facilitation, analysis and dialogue, values and skills to support grassroots initiatives and movement building in the frame of food sovereignty.»

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.»

Local organizations, local corporations, local people who create their own «revolutions» (think about a Tea Party - type grassroots movement, but aimed at improving food service in the schools) and then take the actions needed to effect the change they seek!

Sometimes we get impatient with how slowly Attachment Parenting seems to catch on in our society when in reality, the grassroots movement is on fire!

It's possible that the election of Barack Obama last year, and in particular the way he harnessed social media to create a grassroots movement, has been over interpreted.

Even in the brief compass of the two decades in which there was formally a Chartist movement, the professionalization of politics can be observed, raising walls between «grassroots» supporters and leaders, just it has in modern times between the electorate and the elected.

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.

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.

As a US Senate freshman, the 45 - year - old Texan — an intellectual proponent of a grassroots movement that has simmered for years under the Republican mainstream — has barely three years under his belt in national politics.

As a grassroots web - based movement led primarily by young women of colour, Afropolitanism is a fitting example of the changing landscape and nature of global citizenship and social relations in the 21st Century.

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.

«One has to wonder why, now that there is enormous grassroots pressure to eliminate the IDC, the Democratic establishment wants to welcome them back rather than joining the movement to vote them out in primary elections,» says Andrew Jacobs of Lead Blue.