Sentences with phrase «of grassroots activists»

Ontario, Canada About Blog The Media Action Research Group (MARG) is a collective of grassroots activists, media makers, writers and academics who are studying the role of autonomous, transformative, alternative media locally and internationally.

Party of Growth is a minority political party with a strong base of grassroots activists.

The Pope recognized the importance of grassroots activists like Father Edu, who are working at the local level to stem the impacts of climate change.

Most of us grassroots activists don't have the millions of dollars to lobby legislators like the Corporate Driven Education Reformers do.

Brown v. Board was a landmark decision made possible by the courage and moral leadership of grassroots activists, parents and students on the ground as well as the Supreme Court justices who wrote the unanimous decision.

It takes place in the early 1990s, following a group of grassroots activists in Paris trying to combat public and bureaucratic indifference with regard to the AIDS epidemic, for which potential pharmaceutical remedies are being sidetracked by sociopolitical obstacles.

The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) and Organizing for Action (OFA) are launching an exciting new partnership that will channel the energy of grassroots activists into efforts to restore fair representation to Congress and state legislatures.

Addressing some 400 delegates at the Guardian's conference fringe debate, Mr Campbell also risked the wrath of grassroots activists when he attacked the reluctance of Lib Dems in local government to devolve power.

Young Labour joins scores of grassroots activists and party units in expressing concern -LSB-...]

The Labour party is acknowledging that it will be outspent by the Conservatives by a margin of three to one in next year's general election but believes it will be able to «out - body» the Tories on the ground with a new generation of grassroots activists, shadow cabinet minister Gloria De Piero has said.

One poll of grassroots activists by the website LibDemVoice found 39 % of respondents want Clegg to resign, compared to 54 % who want him to remain in place.

10th February 2016, The Telegraph: Conservative MPs should listen to the EU concerns of grassroots activists, says Nick Herbert

And with the help of grassroots activists diligently coming out in droves to rallies and protests at the Capitol and around the state, we echoed the resistance far and wide.

The fight to reclaim our state starts at the local level with the help of grassroots activists fighting on the frontlines,» Nixon said.

But when you combine tools like these with the passion of grassroots activists and the guidance of experienced organizers, boom.

Campaigns against the practices of fast - food chains and the campaign to ban battery cages, which have been heavily supported by the hard work of tens of thousands of grassroots activists, have improved the living and dying conditions of millions of animals.

He received little support from Republicans in Congress or the party organization, but he overcame their opposition by arousing the passion of grassroots activists.

NFIB's powerful network of grassroots activists sends their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through our unique member - only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America's free enterprise system.

Our success depends on your help — financially and as part of our grassroots activist campaign.

The problem is not shady Russian researchers; it's Facebook's core business model of collect, store, analyze, exploit,» Maciej Ceglowski, a prominent San Francisco web developer and leader of grassroots activist group Tech Solidarity, wrote in a tweet Saturday.

Not exact matches

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.

Meanwhile, projects like earthquake - stricken Haiti — which earned the foundation the scorn of grassroots Haitian activists that accused the foundation of mismanaging millions that did little to alleviate the poverty - stricken country's recovery — blemished the organization's reputation.

RICHMOND, Virginia — President Donald Trump is the ice - breaker ship that broke through 30 years of thick permafrost, according to former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who called on 200 grassroots activists to be the flotilla that keeps the ice from reforming behind him.

A graduate of the University of Florida, Gleason is a seasoned business leader, investor, political strategist, and grassroots activist.

Much of the mainstream media coverage of Roe v. Wade» srecent forty - year anniversary indicated that grassroots abortion rights activists are pessimistic about the future.

Much of the mainstream media coverage of Roe v. Wade's recent forty - year anniversary indicated that grassroots abortion rights activists are pessimistic about the future.

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.

He recently wrote Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics: Styles of Engagement among Grassroots Activists (University of Chicago Press).

The coalition is drawing attention because it has the potential of providing the infrastructure for a grassroots conservative movement that now includes tea party activists and social conservatives.

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....

A grassroots activist program managed by the Brewers Association to advance the interests of small and independent craft brewers.

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected — the kids themselves.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

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.

We know clicktivism can represent the kind of deep engagement we need from grassroots activists, which is an important development.

The belief that without Corbynite activists the Labour party would be bereft of grassroots support is breathtakingly arrogant.

Now, he is the most popular candidate among trade unions and grassroots Labour activists, having been endorsed by 162 Labour constituency parties — ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall — and by six unions, including Labour's two biggest affiliates, Unite and Unison.

Cuomo received the party's nomination in 2010 and 2014, but this year, many grassroots activists in the party said they were inclined to back Nixon, saying that Cuomo had done too much to enable Republicans to remain in control of the State Senate and block votes on a range of progressive issues.

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.

From the perspective of many grassroots Labour activists neither the leader's stance or the GMB's response look great since it will make the party's job of defeating the government that bit harder.

Grassroots campaign group Momentum said its thousands of activists had helped to boost Labour's showing in a series of key areas, including Trafford, where the Conservatives lost control, and Wandsworth.

AAN may have carried out «grassroots organizing,» but a crucial section of the network's tax return shows the money for that organizing didn't come from grassroots sources such as local activists or small dollar donors.

Other NDC activists are also talking ill of immediate - past President Mahama and some of his appointees for complacency and neglect of the grassroots which lead to the party's embarrassing defeat in the 2016 elections.

Perhaps more significantly, «New Labour» created a culture where activist - driven grassroots politics looked increasingly out of place.

The group was joined by more than 100 grassroots community activists as they blocked off the State Street entrance of the Capitol Building in Albany.

Several members of Ready for Hillary will be at the conference, holding a session on how grassroots activists have changed the political landscape, and hosting a party for Netroots Nation attendees.

While the net has certainly enabled lots of local grassroots organizing, and the Tea Party activists are definitely using the available technology to create a very decentralized and interesting network, the available data suggests that there may be only around 75,000 to 250,000 Tea Party online activists, a far cry from the seven - figure numbers we often hear floated.

But the story within the story is of great interest to anyone who wants to understand how money and influence flow through consulting firms to politicians and supposedly grassroots activist organizations.

The curious dance of Saturday's proceedings comes as the WFP, originally formed as a coalition between labor unions and grassroots activist groups, has been somewhat depleted after the exodus of Cuomo - allied unions and is fighting to remain a force in liberal New York.

4th January 2018, Independent: More than half of Tory activists support death penalty, finds landmark survey of grassroots members