Sentences with phrase «organized citizen movements»

It lacks the checks and balances of parliaments and organized citizen movements, and it pivots on patronage systems built on kinship and ethnic hierarchies.

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CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

They are doing this by engaging as public citizens who are leading student organizing, participating in community - led school transformation and other active protest movements.

This past staging of WBN saw a grassroots movement spring up after one of the previous years» titles, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, was banned in one US school system; a student and a few concerned citizens organized the funds and donations to distribute the book to all of the students who signed a petition to reinstate the title.

It is clear from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an organized effort of corporations and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the power of citizen movements to protect human health and the environment when these movements threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.