Sentences with phrase «grassroots support base»

«What we are doing is creating a popular volunteer grassroots support base for Atiku.

As part of efforts to reinvigorate the grassroots support base of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Greater Accra region, the NDC Parliamentary caucus in the region has started a programme to whip up support for the party, and ensure peace and harmony in the region.

Not exact matches

«It's outrageous, and a blatant attempt to confuse the public, that they are claiming they are joining a grassroots online protest that's explicitly intended to defend the Title II based net neutrality protections that people from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support,» Greer said.

He supports his argument with numerous persuasive anecdotes about individuals who have walked out of the underclass with the help of faith - based, grassroots groups that practice «hard - headed, soft - hearted» compassion.

It's particularly tough for candidates with a progressive ethos like Democrat Cynthia Nixon who has vowed to take no corporate money while relying on smaller donations to at least project the image of a campaign based entirely on grassroots support.

Despite the deep opposition to Corbyn in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), the leader's base of support among the grassroots remains solid.

Committed to ecology, social justice grassroots democracy and non-violence, Greens are renewing democracy in the United States through community - based organizing without the support of corporate donors.

The senator has long said, both publicly and privately, that his best chance to secure the Republican nomination is to unite the conservative base behind him — and that the best way of doing so is to earn the backing of high - profile activist leaders in hopes that their endorsements trigger a cascade of support down to the grassroots level.

At the official launch of the GISD at the party's headquarters in Accra on Thursday, Mr Portuphy said the establishment of the school would also help grow the party's support base, particularly at the grassroot level.

Opponents of the project say they have the support of over 30 grassroots community and environmental organizations (attached list) and a petition with over 1300 signatures which they will deliver to Governor Cuomo, who banned fracking last month based on public health concerns.

«Building on her local grassroots support and energy, it's clear that Juanita will run a competitive campaign based on creating jobs, investing in infrastructure and providing access to affordable healthcare...»

The small donor matching system, which provides $ 6 for every $ 1 raised by a candidate up to $ 175, allowed Ulrich to effectively compete against an incumbent by building a broad base of grassroots support, he said.

An email from Rhodes» campaign said he raised the money in just seven weeks, receiving nearly 700 contributions that show a broad base of grassroots support.

Candidates in the program receive «financial, communications, grassroots, and strategic support,» and their inclusion in the program helps expose them to supporters who can «help expand the fundraising base for these campaigns,» according to the the DCCC.

Its officers therefore recommended support for Angela Eagle as first preference because of her unique record amongst women candidates in support of democracy in the party, of a policy - making process which was accessible to the party grassroots rather than one which was entirely based, in reality, in the leader's office, of the impartiality of party staff in internal democracy and of the party - union link.

Instead, grassroots supporters are an atomized base of supporting voters indirectly represented by insiders on party committees and campaign organizations.

Umunna said the group was primarily a grassroots organisation that would start preparing for a ground campaign, but its support base involves MPs from across the political spectrum, including Labour, Conservative, SNP, Lib Dem, Green and Plaid Cymru.

What: Howie Hawkins, Allen Roskoff, Judd Krasher, and Doug Bullock will speak on grassroots, progressive support and endorsements for the Hawkins for Governor Campaign coming from the traditional Democratic base of Democratic clubs and teachers unions.

«It's very based in community building, grassroots building and supporting people who will support the values I believe in.»

To sum up, teachers need to support sustainable alternatives to neoliberal capitalism with its emphasis on economic growth; protect nature's resources for future generations; protect ecosystems and help support biodiversity; support a community based economics, and a grassroots democracy that includes participatory and direct forms, embody anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic pedagogies that respect diversity and work from a post-patriarchal perspective.

It seems that the support of nonconservative charter advocates depends, in part, on the fact that up to now the movement has been composed mostly of grassroots, community - based schools — not franchises of profit - seeking companies.

A Jackson, Miss. - based citizens» organization has launched a five - year campaign to recruit a grassroots army of parents to support education reform across the nation.

About Momma Bears Momma Bears is a Tennessee - based grassroots organization of public schools advocates who defend and support children and public schools and recognize quality public education as a right for every child.

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

We are proud to support this relatively young grassroots rescue organization based in California.

Sometimes these organizations still have a volunteer base which they encourage to engage in grassroots action, but without local staff support.289

To be sustainable this «revolution» should be based at the grassroots, especially since changes of this magnitude will need to have not just support but participation of a majority of the politically active population.

The Bolsa Floresta's connection to state - government» sustainable development» reserves is encouraging as a stimulus to expanding the area under some form of protected status, and as a means of increasing grassroots support for the reserves [but] a firmer financial basis is needed.»

Rural Vermont, a Vermont statewide grassroots organization, works to support an economic policy for Vermont that serves agriculture, natural resource based industries, and small rural business, and provides good jobs, fair wages, decent health care, and housing and transportation for all rural citizens.

In the longer term, Obama will need to work on building a broad base of public support and on grassroots political pressure to change our political systems (especially in Congress) so that we can pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation on climate change.

Smaller, community - based projects are big winners from the new pricing structure, said Deborah Doncaster, executive director of the Community Power Fund, which was set up to support local grassroots projects that emerge out of local and aboriginal cooperatives.

It describes its goal as to «raise awareness of the costs and implications of policies based on global warming alarmism by conducting a multi-faceted campaign to peel away grassroots political support for carbon restrictions, while simultaneously promoting market - based policies that preserve individual liberty, economic opportunity, and environmental quality.»

Once you have that base support, it is much easier to bring others on board with a more grassroots approach.

The coalition works with state, faith - based, community, and grassroots organizations, as well as with parents and leaders to develop and implement a comprehensive approach to supporting father involvement.