Sentences with phrase «of grassroots campaigning»

He operates partly at a strategic level but has a good insight into a lot of that grassroots campaigning as well...... When I first met him and worked for him in 2005 the thing that I really admired about him was his ability to motivate the people underneath him.»

Jon Lansman is founder of the grassroots campaign group Momentum and a long - standing pal of Corbyn who helped out on his successful leadership campaign.

Of the grassroots campaign, de Blasio said, «This is gathering together as many people as possible, getting them to reach out to their state Assembly members and state senators, building the kind of momentum that typically is what wins in situations like this.»

Both are from the Corbynite left: Jennie Formby of the Unite union and Jon Lansman, a former adviser to Tony Benn and founder of grassroots campaign group Momentum.

Although Hust and Rodgers talked to adolescents before the start of the #MeToo campaign, the researchers noted that the young women they spoke with shared stories similar to those shared on social media as part of the grassroots campaign.

The UK, the EU and beyond About Blog Say Yes 2 Europe is an alliance of grassroots campaigns working to ensure that there is a decisive majority in favour of the UK remaining in the EU in the forthcoming referendum.

A key aspect of the grassroots campaign involved organizing the parents of the 40,000 children in charter schools as well as the 40,000 on charter school waiting lists.

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In the US, Bloomberg found there's a pattern: a few pioneers will get out ahead of the issue, and then years or decades later a key event (such as a landmark court case or the maturation of a grassroots campaign) will take place that ushers in a cascade of new supporters, and finally a federal law on the issue.

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The communications team focuses its efforts on media relations and public outreach; sharing testimonials and the local benefits of wind energy; the production and distribution of factual resources; and the development of a grassroots campaign to support wind energy development.

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«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

A growing number of grassroots organizations and social media campaigns are raising awareness about the roughly one in five Americans who will be affected by a mental health condition in their lifetime.

She previously served as vice president of global partnerships for the group and launched grassroots efforts such as Nothing But Nets, a campaign to fight malaria, and the Shot@Life global vaccines campaign.

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

To that end, the YEC has led various public campaigns to improve access to and policy around entrepreneurship, from the FixYoungAmerica grassroots campaign to the Youth Entrepreneurship Act and, more recently, the launch of BusinessCollective, a virtual mentorship program (in partnership with Citi) that helps millions of aspiring and current entrepreneurs launch and grow new businesses.

«If people begin to be turned off by Trump, the Cruz campaign will probably have a better strategic understanding of the implications and how to capitalize upon them,» said Bud Jackson, a Democratic specialist in digital grassroots campaigning, when asked to review the relationships.

The way I got into marketing in the first place was out of a desire to make the world better — my original training was in doing marketing for various grassroots social change and environmental campaigns.

A grassroots #DeleteUber campaign over the perception that Uber was trying to take advantage of immigration ban protests at JFK led to about a half million people requesting to delete their Uber accounts over the course of a week, according to the New York Times.

We plan to attract new members through a combination of awareness campaigns, including advertising, public relations, search engine marketing, member referrals, and grassroots community events.

The StarPhoenix - Burton says Liberals need to reach the grassroots Federal Liberal leadership candidate Alex Burton says a grassroots campaign is the key to rebuilding the party and forms a large part of his bid for the post.

CNN: Personal e-mail urging Mormons to fast and pray for Romney goes national A Utah woman unwittingly started a grassroots campaign when an e-mail she sent to her five children and a handful of friends urging a day of prayer and fasting for Mitt Romney started making the Mormon rounds.

It is a grassroots campaign of education, action, and community building observed each year between 30 January and 4 April in a growing number of cities worldwide.

In Obergefell, Kennedy's claim was that although historically the interpretation of a fundamental right to marry has not included same - sex couples, the «referenda, legislative debates, and grassroots campaigns; studies and other writings; and extensive litigation in state and federal courts» has led to an «enhanced understanding» of how the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th amendment contain a right for same - sex couples to marry that was really there all along, though until now unseen.

A grassroots campaign saved the decrepit complex from becoming an office park, and instead infused the renovation with the spirit of the time and place, a heady idealism that set out to strengthen the relationship between farmer and consumer; emphasize a transparent, democratic process; encourage and protect new and niche businesses; preserve the market's history; and provide a safe haven for the lower - income residents.

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.

In her capacity as Legislative Chair for the Wisconsin Guild of Midwives, she co-led a statewide, bi-partisan grassroots campaign to successfully pass a CPM licensure bill into law in 2006.

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

Also in support of Farm to School, Slow Food USA launched a Time for Lunch campaign yesterday, to organize a national day of action on September 7 with grassroots Eat - Ins around the country, reminiscent of their monumentally successful event in San Francisco last year.

Michelle Dominguez, Executive Director & Event Coordinator Implements the projects and campaigns as directed by the Board of Directors, reaching out to the grassroots where the important work is done.

2 July 2014: Have a read of this... Baby Milk Action and its IBFAN partners work at grassroots level (monitoring companies, organising campaigns, responding to emergencies), national level (working for laws to hold corporations to account) and international level.

For the primary campaigns of Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, they're relying on a combination of grassroots support and labor groups that have endorsed them.

Look for him to ignore targeting and grassroots outreach in favor of ginning up coverage on cable news, and despite the RNC's pledge to spend heavily on digital advertising between now and November, his campaign won't take advantage most of the online options that internet political professionals now take for granted.

«But in the meantime, I remain certain that Matt will win with a grassroots field campaign focused on voters of the 99 %, and I will continue on in my support of Matt's efforts to reform the system and win.»

Miffed by the constant abuse of the naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) have joined forces to launch grassroots campaign against naira abuse across the 774 local government areas of the country.

In both the book and the call, Plouffe described online technology as one of the core non-candidate reasons they were able to win, and as inseparable from the grassroots army they relied on from the beginning of the campaign all the way through election day.

Every penny of spending will have to be tallied and reported — this would severely limit campaigns such as those run by Hope not Hate against BNP candidates or local grassroots campaigns such as those against hospital closures or roadbuilding.

We've already looked at the campaign's grassroots - organizing model, which required a tremendous investment in time from — and an immense amount of trust in — volunteer team members and their recruits, but the Obamans ventured out onto plenty of other ground on which political campaigns normally fear to tread.

«It has been pretty fantastic thus far,» said Krogh, who thrives on the sort of grassroots, door - to - door campaigning the caucuses traditionally require.

It's speculation that was reignited this week after a group of Richards supporters started a grassroots campaign to re-elect him on their own.

In October of 2016, most campaign analysts agreed with the Clinton campaign that those two states were already in her bag, despite warning signs from the Democratic primary and pleas for help from grassroots organizers before Election Day.

His large - scale Facebook outreach reached voters in groups large and small in critical areas of the country, and the bulk of the campaign's late funding came through grassroots donors identified and recruited via Facebook ads (even if they often gave the money in response to a subsequent email appeal).

Here's one thing Democrats and the progressive movement can do to help right now: launch a grassroots - focused campaign to leverage the millions of people who have solid health insurance thanks to Barack Obama and the Democrats.

More from members of the Obama campaign staff on the structure of the new media team, the importance of good content (particularly video) and the use of grassroots data in allocating resources in real - time.

We've been talking about the potential of Obama's rebuilt grassroots field operation here for a year, and now we're seeing some of its first fruits: just as in 2008, the data his field teams collect gives his campaign a much clearer picture of what's happening on the ground than his opponents, helping his team make strategic choices about how to allocate resources (of course, always assuming that the data is accurate!).

Contrary to the latter, Gaudot sees the EU as a «laboratory for the democracy of tomorrow», as evidenced by the Occupy movement, and other grassroots campaigns across Europe.

Here's one angle of the Brown campaign that hasn't gotten much attention: Brown's folks used free Google online tools to help organize grassroots voter outreach and to collect field data.

A grassroots campaign like this would be online - focused, of course, since email and the social web are where we now live much of our lives, but it could also have a strong on - the - ground component as well, enabled by the local social - welfare organizations that have helped sign people up all over the country.

So the Wisconsin recall election was expensive, it involved campaigns heavily dependent on outside allies and grassroots help as they mixed and matched old and new forms of political communication, and it saw various internet tools used both to promote each candidate's message online, but also as integral to more back - end operations rarely visible from the outside.

Check out Ari Melber's new analysis of Organizing For America, the successor to the Obama campaign's grassroots list, published over at tPrez and produced in association with Personal Democracy Forum.