Sentences with phrase «grassroots movements which»

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

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism illustrates the extent to which the conservative revolution percolated up from the bottom: «without grassroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful oGrassroots Conservatism illustrates the extent to which the conservative revolution percolated up from the bottom: «without grassroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful ograssroots activists to give political substance and energy to conservative ideas, conservatism as a political movement would have remained largely the province of a handful of writers.

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 went to a site called Faith Freedom International, a grassroots movement of ex-muslims, which would say otherwise.

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

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.

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 early as the second month of the Obama presidency, an anti-Obama conservative grassroots movement was established called the Tea Party (firstly an allusion to the Boston Tea Party, which has long been used by anti-tax libertarians and conservatives to celebrate the virtues of non-interference and small government; and secondly an acronym for «Taxed Enough Already» Party).

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.

Taking the podium, Nixon thanked the committee members for their «courage» and called the WFP, which has come under assault this week from inside and out — with two major unions leaving the fold in protest after it became clear Nixon was all but locked into the endorsement — the «political home for progressives in New York State, and a source of grassroots muscle for the movement.»

Reforms to party democracy are a key ambition of the grassroots pro-Corbyn movement Momentum, which wants the membership to have more powers.

The move is a clear attempt to clamp down on the growing power of the grassroots boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement which aims to end government and corporate complicity with Israel's violations of Palestinian rights.

The Green Party is a grassroots movement, which means we really come to life at the local level.

The coup, which is picked up by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, we are told, is foiled by a member of grassroots movement «Impetuous».

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

Part of the reason it hasn't happened is that many CLPs are wedded to the «leader leads» model which is, for them, a reason to prevent a grassroots movement emerging (i.e. it's not that new members are simply «consumer members» who only want to vote in the leadership election).

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.

That theme has been picked up by Lord Glasman, the driving force behind the Blue Labour movement - which aims to revitalise the party's traditional grassroots support - and an influential adviser to the Labour leader Ed Miliband.

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.

If this comes to pass, we can imagine a charter school sector characterized by both scale and a diversity of entrepreneurial schools, a future in which grassroots charter schools remain the heart of the movement, but in a sustainable fashion.

But wait a sec — since we're a grassroots group of classroom teachers, how are we going to bake enough gluten - free, nut - free cupcakes, the sale of which will fund our grassroots movement?

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Art and Social Activism investigates art's relationship to activism, creating a live forum in which to discuss the visual arts in our current climate of grassroots action, demonstrations, and international protest movements — with the goal of promoting awareness, increased involvement, and change.

There are literally thousands of volunteers who represent the passion and commitment behind the scenes which enable The Freecycle Network ™ to function as a grassroots and nonprofit gifting movement.

Scenic Hudson, which holds a key place in the history of the grassroots environmental movement, has become a national leader in designing innovative strategies to acquire and protect productive agricultural land necessary for maintaining supplies of fresh, healthy food.

Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire's Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance / anonymity between donations made by well - known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all — the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.

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.

There was a group there that was particularly interested in mountaintop removal coal mining and getting the college to stop investing in coal companies, and the activist organization 350.org, which is probably the biggest grassroots climate - action organization, noticed this movement and were interested to see if they could scale it up.