Sentences with phrase «many grassroots groups»

Since meeting for the first time in 2007, this grassroots group has grown to 107 members across the country.

«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.

One grassroots group of tech workers that has labeled itself Tech Stands Up to Trump and has opposed Trump's travel ban declined to talk about DACA.

NELP combines deep policy chops with tangible action — via partnerships with grassroots groups and leadership on advocacy campaigns around the nation — to fight for real reforms that change lives.

A grassroots group, the New Citizens Movement, uses the Internet and small demonstrations to press for greater transparency.

The idea of social enterprise first came to China in 2004, and as elsewhere, often remains intertwined with the work of non-profit and grassroots groups.

Alberta Can't Wait, the grassroots group calling for unification of the Alberta conservative parties, will be speaking at the Monday September 17 membership meeting hosted by the Peace...

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.

This proposal would allow even non-itemizers this deduction and could significantly multiply the resources of grassroots groups.

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.

PEAR started as a grassroots group of adoptive and prospective adoptive parents who came together to discuss the lack of a unified, respected voice for adoptive families.

Save Buffalo Grove is a grassroots group of citizens concerned about the proposed development of a Downtown Buffalo Grove (pictured) on 65 acres of the Buffalo Grove Golf Course.

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg, Jim Webb's campaign manager.

Grassroots groups have been ignored.

We have to act together in any and all capacities that we can, whether as grassroots groups, community organizations, charities, unions, activists, universities and, most of all, as citizens, without asking for permission or waiting for public funding.

Small progressive grassroots groups can collect far more useful information about their constituencies that massive commercial databases.

But the challengers have all remained defiant in the wake of the deal, and grassroots groups have also made it clear they will continue to organize against the IDC.

Unions have been major contributors to grassroots groups like Citizen Action, Make the Road Action and New York Communities for Change, which all endorsed Nixon last week.

Balter has been endorsed by the party committees and is supported by several grassroots groups.

On December 1st, the New Organizing Institute and the Center for American Progress hosted a discussion among four participants in campaign 2006: Benjamin Rahn from ActBlue, Megan Matson from Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust (a grassroots group), Tom Matzzie from MoveOn and Jessica Vanden Berg...

We held a meeting I think sometime in December where we invited all these different grassroots groups to come and explain what they thought the top three priorities that needed to be done in order to make «New Iceland».

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.

But Mourdock, who was supported by local and national conservative grassroots groups early in his bid, reiterated his vow to stand by his convictions, which he said include rolling back the size of government and lowering taxes.

She has been endorsed by grassroots groups in central New York, including local Indivisible chapters.

For this reason, we decided to join the growing number of grassroots groups pushing Gov. Cuomo's conservative fiscal reform by contacting our Senator and Assemblyman.

But Hunter says upstate Democrats are benefiting from the energy and interest that's fueling activism and marches throughout the country, like the women's marches and Indivisible grassroots groups.

The committee has been airing targeted digital advertisements against Faso and organizing grassroots groups in the district, Lukaske said.

Garvin and Gooran launched a new version last November, and just signed two big clients: Howard Dean's grassroots group, Democracy for America, and the labor - backed Working Families Party.

Momentum's national coordinating group is likely to back Lewisham councillor Sakina Sheikh, a former student campaigner who has close links with the grassroots group.

That's exactly what Ralph Garvin hopes to bring to the table with Organizer, a new political software suite that just landed two big, early clients, the labor - backed Working Families Party and Howard Dean's grassroots group, Democracy for America.

«We started the Marching into ’18 Program last spring to organize grassroots groups and make sure they are prepared to help in the general election,» Lukaske said.

Anderson also cited the importance of «a powerful, dynamic voice in one of the houses of state legislature — like we have now with Markey — who has a strong partnership with grassroots groups.»

It's a grassroots group that wants to send Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu packing.

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, is a visiting assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University who has been active with the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group that formed in response to President Donald Trump's election last year.

The Zongo for NDC is a grassroots group, whose main aim is to mobilize support for the party in all Zongo communities across the country.

Jane Golding is chair of British in Europe, a coalition of grassroots groups representing around 35,000 UK nationals living on the continent, as well as a practicing lawyer who lives in Germany and works across the EU.

We also fully back plans to reconstruct the Labour Party so that it can reach its full participative and democratic potential but, if we are to achieve this, the leadership needs to be receptive to comradely criticism from grassroots groups and respectful of the experiences this criticism expresses.

Martz, who resigned as deputy director of the Adirondack North Country Association on Tuesday, has been involved in progressive activism since last fall's election, and formed a grassroots group called Now What?

It is also expected to connect grassroots groups with the Labour Party more generally.

A new grassroots group, Liberal Reform, has sprung up within the Lib Dem Party to accommodate those people.

Balter, 41, of Syracuse, has jumped into the public spotlight this year as an organizer for the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a local coalition of grassroots groups that formed after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Grassroots groups like the Healing and Protecting our Land Together voice their concerns through prayers and song in Mount Kisco Sunday.

The Central New York Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group opposed to the agenda of President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress, gave Katko some credit for his vote Thursday, but said it wasn't enough.

The speaker is scheduled to arrive in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday for a meeting with the One ID Columbus Coalition — a grassroots group which includes labor unions and faith based groups that have pushed for the city to install a municipal identification program.

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.»

Let NY Vote, formally known as Easy Elections NY, is a statewide coalition of grassroots groups & established organizations fighting to modernize New York's elections.

Bronx, NY — A coalition of grassroots groups joined forces Friday evening outside of Senator Klein's Morris Park office to denounce both his alleged sexual misconduct as well as his personal attacks maligning Erica Valimir.

In the summer of 2015, McKenzie helped organize «Ulster for Bernie,» a grassroots group that made calls and knocked on doors on behalf of Sanders primary campaign.

This is the first time Balter has run for a political office, although she has become a recognizable face in Central New York as an organizer of CNY Solidarity Coalition, a grassroots group of activists that formed to oppose the policies of President Donald Trump after he was elected.

NEW YORK, NY (12/06/2011)(readMedia)-- The New Deal for New York — a coalition of grassroots groups in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers, and New York City — today joined with allied organizations to support a progressive taxation plan that would create new tax brackets on the highest income earners and generate about $ 5 billion for the state.