Sentences with phrase «up grassroots movement»

Cambridge, MA About Blog The Family Dinner Project is a start - up grassroots movement of food, fun and conversation about things that matter.

He stood to put the left's policies on the agenda, serve as a brake on the other candidates marching off to the right and to build up a grassroots movement.

Its mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

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In major cities around the world, the YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) movement has risen up in a grassroots way to help address affordability for everyone.

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.

The 15 people who make up the Emergent Coordinating Group may constitute the organizational heart of the movement, but the Emergent conversation itself happens primarily at the grassroots level through Web sites, Web logs (or «blogs»), regional cohorts and conferences.

The recent grassroots movements popping up are showing that people are tired of deception.

In positive terms, we, unlike NO, have at least now built up a kind of grassroots movement - base that could be mobilised e.g. to fight for PR - based Lords reform (on which, see my guest post over at LiBDemVoice.

The Wall is a place where literally thousands and thousands of people committed to a revolutionary new energy future for our nation and the world are coming together — to express our hopes, share our resolve, and step up to a leadership role in building a grassroots movement for change like nothing America has ever seen.

The coup, which is picked up by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, we are told, is foiled by a member of grassroots movement «Impetuous».

The grassroots movement Momentum also began mobilising to protect Corbyn, with phone banks being set up to contact up to 100,000 supporters ready for another leadership battle.

The local labor movement will pick up on the New York State AFL - CIO's endorsement and kick - off labor's grassroots support of Eric Massa at the Western New York Area Labor Federation's annual conference.

That theme has been picked up by Lord Glasman, the driving force behind the Blue Labour movement - which aims to revitalise the party's traditional grassroots support - and an influential adviser to the Labour leader Ed Miliband.

PES member parties across Europe joined forces to campaign for the European elections, and a mass grassroots movement sprang up in support of Martin Schulz, aiming to «knock the vote» in support of his candidacy.

The initiative is an attempted, kind of, grassroots intellectual movement to come up with a series of ideas that will move us towards a more stable economic arena, [in] which the middle - class gets more benefits than it is getting now from the wealth in this country, and also puts the country on a trajectory that supports the good things the country has traditionally done.

However, grassroots action is beginning to build up into a larger movement.

It seems that the support of nonconservative charter advocates depends, in part, on the fact that up to now the movement has been composed mostly of grassroots, community - based schools — not franchises of profit - seeking companies.

Now it is time for that grassroots «movement» to grow up and become all it was meant to be.

Here's a set of videos and articles that can help get other teachers up to speed on flipped instruction, offer responses to common criticisms, and offer perspective on why many educators are on board with this growing grassroots movement.

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.

And I think there has been a grassroots movement among people to be proactive in their own lives, by doing things like reducing their cholesterol [intake] rather than ending up having to take a pill every day.

While there are still a few sleazy bars here and there, the Poblacion area is currently going through a grassroots movement where good restaurants, bars, and cafes are opening up left and right.

Yesterday we looked at the big picture: how the grassroots environmental movements of the 60s were quickly co-opted by the New Left and the Democrat Party, while providing employment for the «environmental activism industry» that grew up around the environmentalists» efforts.

Earth Day Network's End Plastic Pollution campaign includes four major components: • Leading a grassroots movement to support the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution; • Educating, mobilizing and activating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic pollution; • Educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics, and • Promoting local government regulatory and other efforts to tackle plastic pollution.

Lovely ideas go through the grassroots movement, eventually get picked up by mainstream society / businesses, have regulations put in place as they become more mainstream, and eventually become a normal part of our everyday.

Grassroots movements offer up a multitude of creative and inspiring ways for ordinary folks to get involved in changemaking, both from the bottom up, and as a conversation space through which we can come to terms with our own power to make a difference.

There was a group there that was particularly interested in mountaintop removal coal mining and getting the college to stop investing in coal companies, and the activist organization 350.org, which is probably the biggest grassroots climate - action organization, noticed this movement and were interested to see if they could scale it up.

McKibben takes some solace from the grassroots movement that has grown up during the Obama years in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Tension has been high with developers already hotly debating the merits of the hard fork (a grassroots movement has sprung up in opposition as well), even though the change is not slated for more than two months from now.

«We must use the full force of Congress and the grassroots strength of the national pro-life movement to defeat this absurd rule and prevent the Obama Administration from acting unilaterally to carry out political favors and prop up a scandal - ridden abortion provider,» she said in a statement.