Sentences with phrase «organized citizen action»

The three strategies discussed above — political action, economic sanctions, and the creation of new possibilities — all depend on organized citizen action.

Not exact matches

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

Lawyers from the Becket Fund and the Alliance Defense Fund plan to speak at some of today's rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

Yet another example of citizens using the new tools of online communications and social media to organize for political action and to push a story out in front of a mass audience.

Participants in the boycotts complain Facebook's actions have created an uneven playing field in which ad hoc citizens» groups face hurdles to online organizing — obstacles that corporations using social media have little trouble surmounting.

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

What Article 28 (3) with its omission of public policy grounds seems to suggest in my view is that — to a certain extent — the mere fact of a 10 years residence has created a link between the EU citizen and the host Member State that is similar to the link between a national and its state; as a consequence expulsion can only be a valid means if this link is deliberately destroyed by the EU citizen; this would be the case of a serious security threat, i.e. an individual determined to engage in actions that jeopardize the security of the host Member State's society at large, which could indeed be the case of organized crime.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund in North Dakota works to inspire and engage citizens to take up the cause of reproductive health and rights through education, electoral activity, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy.