Sentences with phrase «grassroots uprising»

The API memo requested API's member companies to recruit employees, retirees, vendors and contractors to attend the «Energy Citizen» rallies in key Congressional districts nationwide during the August recess last year, no doubt hoping to be confused with a genuine grassroots uprising, much like the tea parties.

Whether it was the crusade for the rights of crime victims in the 1970s, the grassroots uprising to lower property taxes in the 1980s, or the citizens» rebellion that sought to curb illegal immigration in the 1990s, California is often the vanguard of popular movements.

In what amounted to a sort of grassroots uprising, however, educators at all grade levels in many types of communities have embraced MI theory with a genuine passion.

Boston University education professor Scott Seider describes the reaction as a «grassroots uprising» of educators at all levels who embraced multiple intelligences (MI) theory «with a genuine passion.»

There has been a recent grassroots uprising in Rye over the revelation of a 95,000 - square - foot fieldhouse proposed for Playland's main parking lot.

How to fake a grassroots uprising.

«If there is a grassroots uprising about the issue of who owns user data, we can get it passed,» Wyden said, citing other pieces of bipartisan legislation that once seemed like a long - shot.