That's where the pining for a grassroots movement comes from.
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The seeds of a grassroots movement seem to be in place.
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"Organize, build a grassroots movement, fight for working people," she said.
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But celebrity is a double-edged sword for any grassroots movement.
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But we have the people, and our grassroots movement will prevail.
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That point of view has helped him build a grassroots movement.
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Fed up with corruption, a grassroots movement demanding transparency emerged in 2014.
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And, unlike today, there was no significant grassroots movement behind the reform.
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Today, in almost every country you will find an LGBT grassroots movement.
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The rally felt like the Platonic ideal of an organic grassroots movement.
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Many immigrants' rights groups are closely aligned with the progressive grassroots movement.
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Such a scenario would be "disconnected from the modern-day grassroots movement."
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The PTM denies foreign links and says it is a grassroots movement.
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However, this grassroots movement on behalf of "We the People" will continue.
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A fledgling grassroots movement is now positioning itself to break the taboo.
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Representatives say it is a loosely organized grassroots movement with no leader.
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Populism is a grassroots movement of people who perceive themselves as disenfranchised.
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A true grassroots movement can restore fairness and prosperity for working Americans.
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Trump's campaign has always been powered by a grassroots movement, not Washington.
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"We're just rolling with the whole grassroots movement that's already happening," Irwin said.
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After all, DeConnick started the grassroots movement to drum up support for Danvers.
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There is a grassroots movement happening to build these ecosystems of entrepreneurial innovation.
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I think there is a strong push and grassroots movement for 'Shop Small.
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Mr. Trump's campaign has always been powered by a grassroots movement, not Washington.
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At that time, there was a huge grassroots movement against SOPA and PIPA.
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" These individual efforts are supported by the grassroots movement "I Am the Cavalry.
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Warren now regularly incorporates language about her grassroots movement that sounds very Sandersesque.
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Today, women everywhere are finding a powerful, grassroots movement rising to their defense.
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Grassroots movement-building wasn't the organization's traditional strength, but it became a new focus.
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But the grassroots movement that's propelling the March for Science is a bit different.
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The recent science findings are also inspiring a new grassroots movement on this issue.
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Please donate today and help us build up our grassroots movement in every county!
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He talked, as he often does, about building a biracial, multi-generational grassroots movement.
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Earth Strike is a grassroots movement that demands immediate climate action from politicians worldwide.
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My Block My City My Hood, a Chicago-based grassroots movement, is an example.
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Building a grassroots movement that was going to always heavily, heavily rely on volunteer power.
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"We have the grassroots movement that wins, we have the agenda that wins," he said.
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Bevin was backed by the tea party, a grassroots movement usually identified with conservative causes.
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Back then, he promised a grassroots movement that would revolutionize France's highly centralized political structure.
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But there was just something about Beto—first off, it was obviously a grassroots movement.
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Le Balai Citoyen (The Citizen's Broom) is a political grassroots movement committed to peaceful protest.
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"We need an ongoing grassroots movement of millions of people to pressure Congress," Sanders said.
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She's wielded her online following as a battle ax and inspired a nationwide grassroots movement.
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The "sickouts" began as a grassroots movement, independent of the Detroit Federation of Teachers union.
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The past few years have seen the birth of a grassroots movement calling itself "last address".
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"It's up to startups like us to address the grassroots movement," for content creators, Esola says.
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"She's been so supportive of us as this grassroots movement, and us as women," Shaewitz said.
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ALIV is a grassroots movement on a mission to shake things up in the Pelican State.
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" "This partial victory shows the strength of the grassroots movement and the power of young people.
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That's because grassroots donors are building a grassroots movement to change the way campaigns are funded.
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That has been the aim of the Fight for $15, a grassroots movement to empower service workers.
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But inevitably, another grassroots movement rises, one that learns from previous campaigns' shortcomings and grows more agile.
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Indeed, it's hard to imagine a major party-induced change coming without a grassroots movement behind it.
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"The thing about the fighting game community is that it's always been a grassroots movement," she says.
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In addition, the connections we made with each other will help us strengthen our national grassroots movement.
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One of them, Swing Left, generated a large-scale grassroots movement to help candidates retake the U.S. House.
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Right now there's a grassroots movement called Groove Safe to call people out for their actions against women.
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Also, no one has any idea how to conjure up a grassroots movement around an abstract policy idea.
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It is a time for being smart and going forward in building a strong and victorious grassroots movement.
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Well, a manifesto is a call for social action because we really need a broad-based grassroots movement.
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This endorsement is about more than just advancing one leader; it's about advancing a grassroots movement for change.
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Mortgage interest tax break has 'no effect' on homeownership, says studyCan a grassroots movement fix urban housing shortages?
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Both candidates are calling for a political agenda that they say will need a grassroots movement to enact.
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There's this disconnect between talking about how we need a grassroots movement and just focusing on the presidency.
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How much of this is political intimidating and silencing of grassroots movement from our right to a reliable vote?
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Together, they're the first step in what she sees a real grassroots movement for concrete changes to gun laws.
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Then came the grassroots movement with the hoodie march, but all of that was made possible through social media.
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Employees who drove electric vehicles reported their satisfaction with their EVs and with being part of a grassroots movement.
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Thanks to these students and the grassroots movement they've ignited, I believe the calculation there is beginning to change.
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The party's job is to help knit the grassroots movement represented by the different campaigns into a coherent coalition.
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About what's broken and how to fix it and how we're building a grassroots movement to get it done.
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To energize this still-infant grassroots movement — "we're a scrappy bunch" — Bozmoski also talks about the science of climate change.
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I'm building a grassroots movement and I think as Democrats we should ask that of every single one of them.
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The independence referendum began as a grassroots movement, with the idea voted at county districts, eventually reaching the Texas convention.
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The PAH is a grassroots movement organised to protect the rights of citizens who are facing eviction from their homes.
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Democratic leadership aides describe Merkley as a smart, under-the-radar senator who has his pulse on the grassroots movement.
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Obama's senior adviser and former law professor; came up with idea for a grassroots movement to build on the campaign.
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"We must build an unprecedented grassroots movement that is powerful enough to take them on, and win," Sanders' plan states.
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What's needed is a global grassroots movement to force greedy and short-sighted politicians to try again and do better.
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"We view Kickstarter as a grassroots platform, and L'appel is a grassroots movement; it was a natural marriage," Kwon said.
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"Like the grassroots movement that we're building, our campaign store is large and diverse," a Warren spokesperson told The Goods.
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"He has ignited a new powerful and enduring grassroots movement inside the Democratic Party," said veteran Democratic strategist Robert Shrum.
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One thing we know for certain: When our grassroots movement is strong, people can win in the most unlikely circumstances.
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They prepared documents and distributed these to the press to show that this was not simply a spontaneous grassroots movement.
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Pearson said the march is part of a broader grassroots movement that she hopes will allow more action at state levels.
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In 2009, many commentators focused on whether the Tea Party was a truly authentic grassroots movement or a manufactured Astroturf one.
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The call for a tax on business began last year as a grassroots movement with town hall meetings, rallies and marches.
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Two months after its inception, Pantsuit Nation is experiencing the growing pains to which many grassroots movement, digital or otherwise, succumb.
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"One month ago today, we launched this exploratory committee to build a grassroots movement to level the playing field," Warren tweeted.
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We are celebrating this company milestone and others and have organized a local grassroots movement to help bring Uber to Miami.
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"This type of attack isn't about disagreeing on issues — it's about dismissing the potency of our grassroots movement," Lau's email read.
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The Vermont independent, who can count on a formidable grassroots movement, appears to be drawing ahead of Massachusetts' Warren in Iowa.
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The grassroots movement Finally, the best way for a currency to create that all-important foundation of true users is through bootstrapping.
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Yeah, well, the movement was very ... technology helped fuel this grassroots movement in terms of the fundraising, in terms of the organizing.
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He notched a $25 million haul in the third fundraising quarter of the year, suggesting fervent support for his grassroots movement persists.
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It's always been to continue talking about Elizabeth's plans for big, structural change, and the grassroots movement that will make them happen.
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A grassroots movement by the numbers: Nearly 2 million donors More than 5.7 million contributions Average contribution: $27 View the discussion thread.
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And they're preparing to mobilize a grassroots movement to resist any effort by Pai or Republican lawmakers to dismantle net neutrality protections.
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At that time, the grassroots movement was asking each Democratic presidential candidate whether they would stand up, address, and debate climate change.
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Sanders herself was active in the grassroots movement and she previously served as the national youth chair of the Coalition on Juvenile Justice.
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"Tiffany Cabán took on virtually the entire political establishment and built a grassroots movement to win," Sanders said in a statement Tuesday night.
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He advised Yasunidos, a grassroots movement which in 2014 collected 750,000 signatures to hold a referendum to stop oil development in a rainforest.
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As leaders in the grassroots movement for single payer, registered nurses are looking forward to Medicare for All's role in the coming election.
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Building upon a grassroots movement may not be diplomatic orthodoxy, but orthodox diplomacy does not have an impressive record of success in Afghanistan.
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Is a grassroots movement going to spontaneously spring up to give a managing director of Bain Capital the 200,85033 donations he would need?
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Sanders said this approach should be through a grassroots movement where the most important members of the party are younger and middle class.
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"One month ago today, we launched this exploratory committee to build a grassroots movement to level the playing field," Warren tweeted last month.
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Her campaign gave rise to a grassroots movement called Fridays for Future that has gone global, inspiring millions of people to take action.
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A strong grassroots movement for paid leave has been gaining momentum over the past several years, and doesn't show signs of stopping under Trump.
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A Trump campaign spokesman said in a tweet that "nothing's changed" after the call, saying "a grassroots movement, not Washington" has powered Trump's campaign.
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We need a grassroots movement with the same magnitude and passion as those that have formed around issues like the environment or civil rights.
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Thousands of teachers in Colorado had joined the grassroots movement, holding rallies at the state capitol to demand a pay raise and more funding.
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"[It's] a narrative music video focused on a delirious grassroots movement, guarding and worshipping a radioactive entity," Sørheim and Langdalen tell The Creators Project.
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" If we are to defeat this power, he said, we need "a truly enormous grassroots movement, and that only exists for Medicare for All.
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But the coalition — announced yesterday — is also part of a burgeoning Republican grassroots movement that's trying to sway the GOP to act on climate.
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Everytown calls itself a grassroots movement, but in the handful of years it's existed, the group has become its own PAC and lobbying force.
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At that point he would never have imagined that he would become a driving force in a grassroots movement to expose Wall Street malfeasance.
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The big picture: This is the fifth Friday that has seen protests, as part of the grassroots movement around the Great March of Return.
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Nucera is part of a growing cohort of Detroiters who have started a grassroots movement to close that gap, by building the internet themselves.
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TV images and the victim's Facebook page showed that Jerome Rodrigues, a prominent figure in the grassroots movement, had been wounded in the eye.
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The mothers and others, students, and survivors of gun violence who make up our grassroots movement are doing what many said couldn't be done.
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That's why for decades, NNU nurses have been leading the grassroots movement to win health care as a human right, with Medicare for All.
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Warren has not built out a grassroots movement behind her that rivals the one behind Sanders, but it appears she's trying to change that.
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The grassroots movement first gained traction on social media in early April as a proposed way to resolve conflicts with paint instead of bullets.
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Just the fact that it got this far is pretty surprising for the Lone Star State, and shows this once grassroots movement is becoming mainstream.
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Not only was she the first woman of color to headline the festival, she may have inadvertently started a grassroots movement for a Beyoncé University.
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But in Argentina, there is #NiUnaMenos, a grassroots movement launched by women that brought hundreds of thousands out to protest in cities across the country.
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" For his 2020 campaign, Sanders said he hopes to enlist one million people in a "grassroots movement of people prepared to stand up and fight.
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Fortunately, a grassroots movement is sweeping the country that can do just that — transform how Americans grow our local economies through building robust entrepreneurial ecosystems.
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Google declined to comment on the walkout, saying "it's a grassroots movement," and at time of writing, Refinery29 had not yet received comment from organizers.
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Further, Schwartz said, the Law Center will share the donation with four other civil rights organizations, including Muslim grassroots movement MPower Change, reported the Post.
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Full disclosure: Before I started working at Mashable, I was very active in the grassroots movement to keep Wendy's spicy chicken nuggets on the menu.
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Right-wing extremists who openly incite hatred and violence, like the head of (anti-Islam grassroots movement) PEGIDA boss Lutz Bachmann, thus receive intolerable support.
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"I think what we ought to do is, we ought to be building a grassroots movement to make real change in this country," she said.
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Organizers even noted that more widespread support for the grassroots movement and greater diversity in government would be necessary to overcome remaining barriers to ratification.
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We're proud to have fueled a grassroots movement of independent dental professionals who are just as passionate as we are about modernizing a tired industry.
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The walkouts were part of a burgeoning, grassroots movement prompted by the Parkland attack and came 10 days before major protests planned in Washington and elsewhere.
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"Like all the great movements in human history, our clean future starts with a grassroots movement in our communities, our cities and our states," he said.
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Krastev is hoping that it will develop into a grassroots movement, where people geolocate themselves moving around the city and follow the lead of other eyebombers.
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With one big difference: techno tourism has become big business in the intervening years, growing from a grassroots movement into a polished and corporatized global industry.
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One massive criticism from liberals about the Green Party was their focus on the presidency instead of creating a larger grassroots movement from the local level.
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu-nationalist grassroots movement that backs Modi and the BJP, chronicled hundreds of cases of triple talaq in a recent report.
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Sanders is expected to run again in 2020, and to run with the support of a grassroots movement that thrills to his break with capitalist convention.
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Most early social-media support of Popeyes' chicken sandwich appears to have been a grassroots movement, a rarity in the sea of influencers and sponsored content.
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Sanders framed his coalition as a multiracial, multi-generational grassroots movement, acknowledging Biden's advantage in the delegate count but pointing to the energy of his supporters.
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Building an intersectional justice movement in the United States: How does a grassroots movement led by people of color confront oppression and patriarchy day by day?
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Far-right leader Matteo Salvini's seemingly unstoppable political rise in Italy has been hit by an unlikely challenge from a grassroots movement known as "the sardines".
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Dresden was the cradle of the anti-Islam PEGIDA grassroots movement, whose weekly rallies attracted around 20,000 supporters at their height at the start of 2015.
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" In 2014, Bozmoski and Inglis founded republicEn, a group of about 3,000 people all over the US trying to create a grassroots movement of "conservative climate realists.
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Many in the grassroots movement, which lacks a leadership structure, have said Macron's proposals did not go far enough and most of what he announced lacked details.
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You may find that you're finally mad enough to turn off your notifications in the evenings or that you aren't quite ready to join a grassroots movement.
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She's a vocal participant in a grassroots movement backing the 2020 candidate that takes its name from a moniker embraced by some of Beyoncé's most fervent supporters.
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Following another officer-involved shooting, San Francisco activists have made major headway in what they are calling a "grassroots movement" to shake up the city's police department.
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Basically, the National Women's Health Network is a part of the grassroots movement that makes the work of Planned Parenthood and the Reproductive Health Access Project possible.
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This issue came to the spotlight because of the national headlines, but we need a ground up grassroots movement in every community and workplace and state legislature.
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Thousands of teachers in Colorado have joined the grassroots movement, holding rallies at the state capitol in recent weeks to demand a pay raise and more funding.
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Instead, he represents Wikipolítica, a grassroots movement of liberal activists with branches in Jalisco, Mexico City, and the coastal city of La Paz in Baja California Sur.
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And a series of colourful street protests by the Extinction Rebellion grassroots movement in London and beyond has also put climate change firmly on the political map.
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Then they saw a Tea Party wave that they willfully chose to interpret as a grassroots movement calling for a more rigorous dedication to free market ideology.
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"It has always been very much a grassroots movement of people getting together locally saying we want to do something about food waste," says Food Cycle's Clare Skelton.
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Though undeniably a grassroots movement, the Tea Party also depended on support from established libertarian moneybags, such as FreedomWorks, an enterprise of the industrialists Charles and David Koch.
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It should be noted that, much like Vote Leave, the Wenger Out campaign is a disparate grassroots movement made up of people with a variety of different grievances.
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In France, the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets), a populist grassroots movement, have blocked roads and staged some of the most violent demonstrations the country has seen since 268.
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Note: Wording in this story has been updated to more accurately reflect the relationship between the Cooperative Community of New West Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
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He knows who I am, where I come from, what I have worked on and fought for and the coalition and grassroots movement we are trying to build.
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ROME (Reuters) - Far-right leader Matteo Salvini's seemingly unstoppable political rise in Italy has been hit by an unlikely challenge from a grassroots movement known as "the sardines".
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Since then, the housing crisis has prompted four scathing congressional hearings and a growing grassroots movement of military families active on social media and in the halls of Congress.
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Debbie Mukamal, executive director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Centre at Stanford Law School, said the push for the amendment started as a grassroots movement of formerly incarcerated people.
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Dresden was the cradle of the anti-Islam PEGIDA grassroots movement whose weekly rallies attracted around 20,000 supporters at the height of its popularity at the start of 2015.
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The documentary also gives voice to other residents who are involved in the locally led grassroots movement, taking care to show how active, concerned, and resourceful these citizens are.
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What we learn from Parkland is that a grassroots movement successful in generating national attention also leads to such a spike, even in the absence of significant policy actions.
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You build a grassroots movement to beat Donald Trump and create a political revolution one $6900 donation at a time, and that's exactly why Bernie is going to win.
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The company's Switch Network is designed to have the look and feel of a grassroots movement where citizens are emboldened by a shared cause to lobby lawmakers for change.
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Similarly, Trump couldn't have spurred a grassroots movement to fill those rallies without an enormous amount of free publicity he received from the news media through much of 2015.
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The book is centered on his first campaign and the grassroots movement he worked to create while running against, and ultimately losing to, Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
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He made a name for himself pushing an ambitious agenda of market reform and economic modernization, and also for leading a large grassroots movement against the First Chechen War.
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Independent of the academy and the publicly-funded cultural sector, they are in a unique position to host, sustain, and amplify the voices and creative energies of grassroots movement groups.
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Pro-ISIS kill lists, just like pro-ISIS videos, infographics, and other materials, come from the same grassroots movement that has made ISIS such a successful organization around the globe.
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From the Suffragettes, to 1963's historic Civil Rights March on Washington, to the grassroots movement Occupy Wall Street, public protests are how everyday people have orchestrated change in America.
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The protests were his first encounter with big politics, and he and fellow leaders have had to fend off mainstream opposition politicians who wanted to co-opt their grassroots movement.
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The Brooklyn native announced his candidacy in an email to supporters, pledging to build a vast grassroots movement to confront the special interests that he said dominate government and politics.
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VICE Impact met up with the 33-year-old in the country's capital of Kampala, to speak about sex-ed, shorts, and turning a blog into a local grassroots movement.
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In Anchorage in the final run up to Election Day, the members of a grassroots movement were determined to tell that world that this measure is not what Anchorage supports.
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However, start-up companies argue ICO funding is a legitimate method of raising money and it is representative of a broad grassroots movement to unsettle big banks and venture funds.
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The label, which will be rolled out in the next few weeks, has been developed with Slow Food, an international grassroots movement that seeks to improve the lives of farmers.
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The book is about his bid for the presidency and the grassroots movement he worked to create while running against, and ultimately losing to, Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
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Then they dug in deeper, channeling their rage into action and organizing a grassroots movement that produced candidates—new faces, with new messages—who began to seize control of elected offices.
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A group that describes itself as a "grassroots movement" to support Donald Trump is raising money in Trump's name — and spending it to boost Republican candidates the president has not endorsed.
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To our knowledge, this marks the first time rideshare drivers and members of Fight For $15—a grassroots movement agitating for fair wages among food service workers—have taken joint action.
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Oil prices have risen 45 percent since Macron took office in mid 2017 and his government is facing pressure on high prices from a grassroots movement protesting recent petrol tax hikes.
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Yet nearly any socialist you talk to these days agrees that the revival was given rocket boosters by Bernie Sanders, or more precisely, by the grassroots movement that organized behind him.
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"This is a true grassroots movement where people are aligning under the notion that there's no equality and pride for some of us without reparations for all of us," she said.
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Looking ahead, no matter how large the grassroots movement grows in support of divorce, Professor Go noted, the draft bill ultimately needs the president's approval before Congress will even consider it.
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Single-payer activists, mostly from the progressive grassroots movement that fueled Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, are delighting in a sense of momentum after years stuck on the margins of the debate.
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"Elizabeth's decision to forgo high-dollar fundraisers and call time means that she can build a grassroots movement by meeting with voters one at a time, face to face," Hayden said.
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If Bannon's populism is anti-DACA, it's a very unpopular form of populism—the views of a xenophobic fringe given a megaphone by an idiosyncratic billionaire, not an actual grassroots movement.
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He set in motion the local and national security protocol of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the organization to which he, Lumumba, and many of the others in the administration belonged.
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The release of the Nike hijab—the first sports hijab sold by a global brand—could be viewed as the culmination of an ad-hoc, grassroots movement inspired by Muslim women.
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His movement harks back to the progressive era a century ago, when a similar grassroots movement successfully took on the power of the industrial robber barons of the late 19th century.
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Philanthropy tends to center on a small number of affluent donors, but a grassroots movement known as "giving circles" — in which more modest donors pool their resources — has been gaining popularity.
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The Women's March, a liberal organization that originated as a grassroots movement in opposition of President Donald Trump, was one of multiple groups tweeting from the protest at the Capitol building.
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The Women's March, a liberal organization that originated as a grassroots movement in opposition to President Donald Trump, was one of multiple groups tweeting from the protest at the Capitol building.
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The Global Climate Strike grew out of a grassroots movement called #FridaysforFuture, which started with Greta Thunberg sitting outside of Swedish parliament all by herself every school day for three weeks.
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After collecting over 100,000 signatures online, a grassroots movement pushed the White House to reevaluate its position on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), essentially changing the course of legislative history.
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It was not the government that proposed the referendum, but a grassroots movement called the Team Taiwan Campaign led by a famous Taiwanese track-and-field athlete and Olympic medallist, Chi Cheng.
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Considered an outsider during the 2006 governor's primary, Patrick ignored the naysayers and hit the pavement to build and ultimately lay claim to a grassroots movement people said was doomed to fail.
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Sanders, 77, announced his candidacy in a lengthy early morning email to supporters, pledging to build a vast grassroots movement to confront the special interests that he said dominate government and politics.
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"For years, the plus-size community has been leading a powerful grassroots movement for inclusivity in the fashion space," Dia&Co's CEO and co-founder Nadia Boujarwah said in a press release.
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Struck with sympathy for her friend's sister, Booth only wanted to do a good deed, but ended up unwittingly launching a grassroots movement for abortion access with a legacy that persists today.
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Watching the mobilization of students around the country in a grassroots movement fostered by their peers in response to the February 14 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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Trump is committed to breaking up the rigged system in Washington and ensuring that the people — this grassroots movement fueling Mr. Trump's campaign — have a voice in how we govern going forward.
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Since his primary campaign in 22.5, he's led the left's resurgence, with a furious demand for progressive action on almost every issue of the day, and a grassroots movement to enact it.
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"It is critically important that we keep building a larger grassroots movement against war, militarism, racism, anti-immigrant scapegoating and neoliberal capitalism's assault against workers' living standards and the environment," it states.
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Leaders of the group deny receiving any foreign funding and say the PTM is a non-violent grassroots movement dedicated only to defending the civil rights of ethnic minority Pashtuns in Pakistan.
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Too often, at least according to some critics, they went back to the courts in an effort to score victories there, instead of building a grassroots movement to win on Election Day.
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But it captures the spirit of Sanders all the same, and serves as a demonstration of the ingenuity of his support in the grassroots movement that's risen out of his presidential bids.
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Warren's announcement on Monday also highlights her campaign's emphasis on building a grassroots movement as a longer-term investment, as the senator hopes to eventually take on President Donald Trump next November.
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It was a vast grassroots movement of thousands of people that prevented a third runway being built the first time around, and it will take the same again to stop it this time.
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More recently, online calls for reparations have been driven by a grassroots movement of black activists specifically advocating on the behalf of American descendants of slavery (or ADOS, as the movement is called).
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Nevertheless, Japanese survivors' groups have campaigned for decades to bring leaders from the U.S. and other nuclear weapon states to see Hiroshima's scars as part of a grassroots movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
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The group was founded in 2012 by conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk and has since ballooned into a national grassroots movement with more than 1,000 chapters at high schools and colleges across the country.
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Or are we going to be the party that says we get what's wrong, we have a plan to fix it, and we're going to build a grassroots movement to make that happen?
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"We created this grassroots movement that was very people-focused, and we took a race that most national folks thought was unwinnable, and we moved the needle 24 points," Scholten told CNN Sunday.
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With Yang inspiring a grassroots movement that not only lights up the Internet on his behalf but has now given him the money and with it the credibility to really and truly compete.
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In the crowd were members of Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America, the grassroots movement that's part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun control advocacy group in the country.
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"The power that local communities hold in their hands to stop projects like this… the sheer sort of power and effectiveness of a grassroots movement that became so huge, was inspiring," he said.
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Echoing the platforms of other young, progressive Democrats who swept their races across the US, he galvanized an energetic grassroots movement focused on making health care and education affordable and accessible for all Americans.
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"Our grassroots movement shocked the country last year with AOC's upset victory, and we are prepared to do it again in New York's 16th District," Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of Justice Democrats, said.
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What if Barack Obama could become not only the first black man elected president, but the first president in history to organize an enduring grassroots movement that could last beyond his years in office?
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By creating what appears to be a grassroots movement, these organizations avoid the reputation of the traditional labor union and use this model to attempt to skirt the regulatory framework that the LMRDA requires.
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In this sense, the Basij – a subsidiary of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime's praetorians – differs from other security agencies through its extensive reliance on volunteers, thereby legitimizing it as a grassroots movement.
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"Good," said Tamika Spellman, an advocate who has been part of the grassroots movement to decriminalize sex work in DC, when BuzzFeed News contacted her about Decriminalize Sex Work's decision to withdraw the proposal.
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But Iranian protesters have neither, he said, dismissing recent demonstrations as a "spontaneous and grassroots" movement that draws across a broad mix of interests and loyalties, including students, professionals, trade unionists, and ethnic minorities.
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But to take that risk, he'd need a grassroots movement and a media strategy strong enough that every prosecution or lawsuit the group's rescues triggered would only amplify its message and recruit more followers.
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RAN ran full page ads in publications ranging from hyper-local hippie weeklies (for their grassroots movement) to BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal (to let executives at Burger King know they'd been targeted).
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Wagenknecht is not -- as some have said -- seeking to build a movement like Momentum in Britain (the left-wing grassroots movement that brought Corbyn to power) or Jean-Luc Mélenchon's equivalent La France Insoumise.
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" It's doubtful the grassroots movement to boycott Prime Day will make a dent in the success of the shopping event, but King says "anything that hurts Amazon's bottom line is a form of resistance.
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It's kind of a grassroots movement around what the new capitalism and new economy can be, and I'm super excited about that because you need an alternative to the quarterly madness, and I like it.
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The effort, which started small within the last month but has grown rapidly in popularity, is aimed at building a grassroots movement around industry unionization and finding a viable path toward making it a reality.
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This was a grassroots movement that was co-opted by the political parties, but who maintained its nonviolent framework because they have much more to lose than they have to gain if this becomes violent.
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"If we need to accelerate tax cuts, whether for companies or households, I am in favour," Le Maire told an economics conference, as the government struggles to quell a grassroots movement against fuel tax hikes.
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It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.
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"If we need to accelerate tax cuts, whether for companies or households, I am in favor," Le Maire told an economics conference, as the government struggles to quell a grassroots movement against fuel tax hikes.
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Timothy Head is executive director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a national grassroots movement of over two million conservatives and people of faith in support of time-honored values, stronger families, and individual freedom.
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But his work and itinerary this fall, as he travels to boost Democrats around the country while continuing to grow and sustain the grassroots movement he elevated with his 22015 campaign, has guaranteed its asking.
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But a move by Corbyn ally Jon Lansman, founder of the left-wing grassroots movement Momentum, to propose a motion to abolish the deputy's post because of disloyalty over Brexit threatened to derail those plans.
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More than 123 educators are on ballots, more than double the 2014 and 2016 numbers, in a grassroots movement following strikes that shuttered schools in such states as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona and Colorado.
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"Jan is a relentless fighter for working families who understands the importance of building a grassroots movement so that we can make Washington work for everybody, not just the wealthy and well connected," Schakowsky said.
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"The first day a candidate accepts the help of a single-candidate super PAC in the Democratic primary is the last day their campaign is truly a grassroots movement," said Tiffany Muller, End Citizens United's president.
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David Axelrod, Mr Obama's chief political strategist, singled out the Kochs in an op-ed in the Washington Post as billionaire oilmen secretly funding the Tea Party while pretending it was a grassroots movement for change.
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I do this as just one of the many volunteers phone canvassing for Everytown and Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement working to implement common-sense gun laws and elect candidates who will enact these laws.
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In a new interview with The New York Times, Shannon Coulter describes starting her grassroots movement and how a simple tweet turned into a retail revolt against the sitting president and his family's bevy of brands.
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Macron was initially slow to respond to the grassroots movement but as protests became more widespread and serious he cancelled proposed fuel tax rises and announced a series of budget-busting measures to appease the public.
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The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation named Bezwada Wilson one of six winners this year, citing his "moral energy and prodigious skill in leading a grassroots movement to eradicate the degrading servitude of manual scavenging in India".
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Boyce and Howard both call for a grassroots movement (the underpants gnome of all dividend arguments), but there is, to my knowledge, no evidence that dividend schemes would elicit much public support, much less a movement.
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Over the past few days, a new grassroots movement has emerged to try to help fill that gap, bypassing traditional procurement protocols to get critical materials directly in the hands of those who need them most.
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In Nablus - where crowds surged to several thousand on Friday, from around 2,000 the week before - worshippers insisted there was no single group behind the drive, describing it as a grassroots movement still finding its feet.
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Labour seized on such moments, with Momentum — a Corbyn-backing grassroots movement — mobilizing an army of activists to create slick attack videos slamming Johnson and the wider Conservative Party, many of which gained millions of views.
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"I look at politics a little bit differently than some of my colleagues in the sense that I believe that we need to build a national grassroots movement," Sanders told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
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True is part of a growing grassroots movement of former drug users who see kratom as the cheap, safe, "all-natural" way to curb the opioid epidemic killing more than 40,000 people in the US every year.
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Macron issued a series of proposals last week in response to the protests, but many in the grassroots movement, which does not have a leadership structure, have said they do not go far enough and lack detail.
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Bloomberg has a track record of action and results, is not beholden to any party, can fund his own campaign and grassroots movement and is pragmatic on most issues, uniquely positioning him in a polarizing election year.
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But, he said, labor-law reform is likely to go the way of marijuana legalization: The grassroots movement will first push for policy change in local communities, which then make their way to state and federal legislatures.
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Pree Walia, co-founder of the Nailbot and CEO of Preemadonna, talks about the circuitous path she took toward the creation of the Nailbot, and how her company's using a grassroots movement to get the word out.
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" Bernie Sanders: "If you reject the candidate who has the most votes from the people and you win it through superdelegates ... do you think you're going to have the energy ... and the grassroots movement to defeat (Trump)?
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Search for the name to see if news reports have linked it to an astroturfing campaign — a process where a company, government propaganda operation, or other group artificially builds a campaign that looks like a grassroots movement.
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ROME (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people joined a demonstration in central Rome on Saturday organized by a grassroots movement known as "the sardines", launched only a month ago to protest against far-right leader Matteo Salvini.
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In the last decade AddioPizzoTravel, the social enterprise offshoot of an anti-mafia grassroots movement, has been working with locals determined to shake up the status quo by declining to pay the "pizzo" - Sicilian slang for protection money.
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Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a grassroots movement to prevent gun violence, and a board member for Emerge America, an organization that trains progressive women to run for office.
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The Washington Redskins found that out recently when it became clear that the grassroots movement in support of retaining the controversial team name was actually run by a public relations firm and paid for by the team owners.
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Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the author of Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World.
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The grassroots movement known as the Sardines, which sprang up during the campaign in Emilia, packed the country's piazzas with anti-Salvini rallies and having helped the left to victory, they could now go from strength to strength.
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A grassroots movement known as "the sardines", launched only a month ago in opposition to Salvini, has quickly gathered momentum with a spate of well-attended rallies, and on Saturday tens of thousands joined a demonstration in Rome.
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President Trump's top telecom regulator, Republican Ajit Pai, on Wednesday announced his intention to dismantle US rules protecting net neutrality, prompting howls of protest from open internet advocates who vowed to mobilize a grassroots movement to fight Pai's plan.
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A grassroots movement has recently emerged in which a number of scientists, philosophers, ethicists …Read more ReadIn light of SeaWorld's recent decision to phase out its orca whale population, perhaps zoos should take notice and do likewise with apes.
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Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said Indians felt "proud" about the canonization, the head of a Hindu grassroots movement that supports his government provoked controversy last year by accusing Mother Teresa of seeking to convert people to Christianity.
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"The craft beer community is at its most critical moment since its inception as larger brewing corporations have bought into our grassroots movement, irrevocably changing the marketplace," Bill Covaleski, founder and brewmaster of Victory Brewing, said in a statement.
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Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.
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The campaign hopes this group will help build "a grassroots movement to reach out to and organize women voters to help Joe Biden become the Democratic nominee and defeat Donald Trump," per Adonna Biel, the campaign's deputy press secretary.
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While Sanders' attempt to boost other progressive primary candidates has had mixed results, former surrogates like Konst and Josh Foxx, the director of the documentary film "Gasland," are trying to keep the grassroots movement Sanders rallied from becoming complacent.
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Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman are the women behind the Pussyhat Project, a grassroots movement to flood the National Mall with a million handmade, cat-eared knit hats, dubbed "pussyhats," in a show of solidarity and support for women's rights.
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After building a grassroots movement and experiencing a meteoric rise on the national scene, Yang suffered a humbling defeat in the Iowa caucuses, earning just 1% support in the second caucus alignment and receiving zero pledged delegates from the state.
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Andrew Yang built his long-shot candidacy into a grassroots movement by advocating for a humane capitalism that leaves no worker behind, but some of his employees now say that behind the scenes that's exactly what his campaign just did.
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"Our proposal would have required that members of the political team who had just won the nomination be willing to cede control of the grassroots movement and turn it more in the direction of policy advocacy and progressive advocacy," he says.
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The Chaco battle is offering a political roadmap for how a grassroots movement led by Native American communities can successfully work with their local and federal political representatives toward protecting, and one day reclaiming, the land that was stolen from them.
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Almost immediately, Armenians from all walks of life—though, it must be said, as with many protest movements, students played a large role—took to the streets in an ad-hoc, grassroots movement calling for Sargsyan to vacate his post.
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If people looked closely, they might see that the "Great March of Return" has long been a grassroots movement that Hamas (and other political factions) have come to support with the intent of keeping the protests as nonviolent as possible.
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Harun and Khandakar, who describe themselves as "complete and total political novices," said that the group is focused on increasing Muslim involvement in politics and that it was inspired by Indivisible, a nationwide grassroots movement of locally led progressive organizations.
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"During the next days and weeks we will reach out to a large grassroots movement of working people, environmentalists, human rights advocates and religious groups to support an amendment to the platform in strong opposition to the TPP," Sanders said.
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That same group, which is loosely associated with former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, is also looking to make a statement about the strength of the grassroots movement by stripping power away from RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and the national party.
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Schumer's comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision.
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BOLOGNA, Italy (Reuters) - The "Sardines" grassroots movement protesting against the populism of far-right Italian leader Matteo Salvini staged a mass rally in the northern city of Bologna on Sunday ahead of a regional vote that could shake up national politics.
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"If you think about it in the sense of a grassroots movement, it's very similar to what it's like in the field in terms of politics," said a Democratic social media strategist who has experience creating DM groups on the left.
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Such criticism, combined with his ongoing financing from Wall Street banks and other companies notorious for disenfranchising people of color, have certainly impacted his ability to break through to voters who prefer the grassroots movement-building of Sanders and Warren.
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While there were several outspoken advocates on the issue before the Kolko case broke—perhaps most notably a woman named Vicki Polin who started a now-defunct organization called The Awareness Center—in its wake something of a grassroots movement emerged.
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It was the first time black people and white people and Native Americans and people from all walks of life worked together in an organized way (which was very disorganized), and had a grassroots movement to bring down a system in our nation.
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As GOP lawmakers prepare for a week of raucous town halls during a late-February congressional recess, some are dismissing the massive crowds, casting them as the efforts of well-funded liberal groups paying protesters to pose as members of a grassroots movement.
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He said Facebook's intention in working with a Washington opposition research firm was not to target Soros, whose foundation has given to the Open Markets Institute but not the Facebook campaign, but to show that the group was not a grassroots movement.
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"This health care fight was the most perfect embodiment of what's possible when a grassroots movement really does come together and relentlessly speak out and go to town halls and make phone calls into district offices," said Jesse Lehrich, OFA's communications director.
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Coupled with the influx of support from outside, these feelings gave the campaign an unstoppable momentum (a term later taken as its name by a grassroots movement that grew out of Mr Corbyn's leadership campaign and now has local chapters in many constituencies).
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On the political front, join a grassroots movement, support a candidate, or run for office on a platform that links to your core values, be it the environment, education, drugs, inequality or wherever you see a need that is not being met.
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In Louisiana, I believe the solution is the Alliance of Louisiana Independent Voters, a grassroots movement poised to shift the balance of power back to the people of the Pelican State — a prescription to the bipolar political system that is plaguing us now.
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Right to repair advocates are looking at this movement as a perhaps decade-long process that will require a grassroots movement of consumers to push back against the long-entrenched repair monopolies of companies like Apple, John Deere, and video game console manufacturers.
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"We are gonna also launch what I think is unprecedented in modern American history, and that is a grassroots movement to lay the groundwork for transforming the economic and political life of this country," he said in an interview with CBS This Morning.
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From the Malcolm X grassroots movement to running Nkiru with Mos Def—a bookstore in Brooklyn that housed only black authors—and regularly participating in protests, Kweli continues to commit himself to supporting social change within his own and other oppressed communities.
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There were serious questions about the extent to which the Tea Party was an authentic grassroots movement or a corporate-sponsored "astroturf" campaign, but it is undeniable that it was, at the time, the most effective American protest movement in this young century.
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"The only way we will win this election and create a government and economy that work for all is with a grassroots movement -- the likes of which has never been seen in American history," Sanders said in his message announcing his campaign.
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However, while I am frightened by the ideologies vocalized by this grassroots movement and see the insurrection within the Republican party as an inevitability given several decades of rhetorical fear and ignorance mongering, it is critical that we avoid devaluing the people themselves.
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EU, which claims on its website to be Britain's fastest growing grassroots movement, is due to confirm on Thursday whether it will launch a legal challenge against the Commission's decision — a move that could potentially delay the referendum by up to four months.
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One day later, bright pink hats could be seen all over the city as people flocked for the Women's March as part of a grassroots movement to wear handmade, cat-eared knit hats, dubbed "pussyhats," in a show of solidarity and support for women's rights.
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Background: A leaderless grassroots movement born on social media, unaffiliated to any party or union, the Yellow Vests are a disparate gathering of discontent citizens, largely from the rural working class, who have risen up against Macron's presidency and more generally against the French establishment.
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When leftists organized an annual concert called Rock Against Racism to build a grassroots movement against the National Front and fascist skinheads, Donaldson created a counter-event called Rock Against Communism and a distribution network called Blood & Honour, both of which continue to this day.
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The group calls itself "a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians," but its activities should raise some questions about whether they may have any affiliation with the Palestinian-Marxist organization, which has been on the U.S. government's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 28500.
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Let's not forget that Brexit wasn't pioneered by a grassroots movement of disaffected Britons, but a 25-year-long ideological crusade by tory Europhobes like Daniel Hannan and Nigel Farage, who devoted their entire lives and careers to a cause many dismissed as futile.
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But the worst case would be if Clinton raised money only to spend it propping up loyalists, hindering more progressive candidates and causes, and giving a distinctly Clintonian shape to an organic grassroots movement that has so far operated outside the Democratic Party's control.
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The one ray of hope to move the country forward lies in the bipartisan grassroots movement in the House of Representatives to circumvent the gridlock and bring the question to the House floor so that Congress can begin to find legislative solutions for immigration reform.
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" Schumer's office later said his comments "were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision.
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Since she leaked classified documents about Iraq and Afghanistan in 2000, the former Army intelligence analyst has become the face of a grassroots movement challenging the unchecked might of the U.S. military, and its disregard for the people in the countries it routinely invades.
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Mia Arievitch, a 24-year-old socialist who attends the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies, believes Sanders and Warren are running completely different presidential campaigns, with Sanders focusing on grassroots movement-building while Warren homes in on federal policy.
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Ashraf Jabari, a Palestinian businessman from Hebron, and Avi Zimmerman, a former international spokesman for an Israeli settlement, believe their grassroots movement can promote prosperity from the ground up, countering what they see as a dearth of leadership from the top down (The Hill).
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After starting work with that company, IrishCentral, in 2015, she joined Irish Stand, a grassroots movement that fights for civil rights protection for all immigrants and calls on Irish and US politicians to reconcile their heritage and national experience with their anti-immigration policies.
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"We are taking on [President] Trump, the Republican establishment, Carville and the Democratic establishment, but at the end of the day, the grassroots movement that we are putting together of young people, of working people, of people of color, want real change," he continued.
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"Founding DFA was one of the greatest honors of my life and, while I'm stepping back from my role with Democracy for America today, I could not be more proud of the grassroots movement we've created together and what they will do going forward," Dean said.
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"It's politically expedient for the Republicans to point the finger at a Democratic president, but the reality is that a massive grassroots movement combined with market forces have been the real drivers of change," said Mary Anne Hitt who heads the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is working with local organizations to restore voter rights to ex-offenders through its Let People Vote campaign and People Power initiative, which is a grassroots movement to end voter suppression based on felony convictions in Florida and nine other states.
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The freshman congresswoman also released a video message through NowThis News, in which she calls the newly-founded PAC "a grassroots movement committed to supporting candidates and initiatives around the country that are ready to stand with the majority of Americans" and pass single-payer healthcare.
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I feel happy with my job and am looking forward to space vacations While it initially seemed to be a grassroots movement, a reporter for Yahoo found that while FC ambassadors volunteer to tweet, they are also being rewarded with Amazon gift cards and an extra day off.
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See the full results of the New Hampshire Democratic primaryAfter building a grassroots movement and experiencing a meteoric rise on the national scene, Yang suffered a humbling defeat in the Iowa caucuses, earning just 1% support in the second caucus alignment and receiving zero pledged delegates out of state.
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Having watched how ineffective organizations like the World Anti-Doping Association and governing bodies like the International Association of Athletics Federations were in policing PED use, a number of MUT athletes have undertaken a grassroots movement to keep their sport clean, with a decidedly different—and optimistic—approach.
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"There's clearly a grassroots movement dedicated to recruiting Corey Lewandowski for the Senate, and we believe that it's time to draft Corey into this race and show that the voters of New Hampshire are behind him," Biundo told WMUR, which first reported details of the super PACs organizers.
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Our goal, as we built this grassroots movement together with courts and child welfare agencies in every state, was to raise public awareness of the thousands of children waiting to be adopted from foster care in the United States and to celebrate all of the loving families that adopt.
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A grassroots movement has recently emerged in which a number of scientists, philosophers, ethicists …Read more ReadMore conceptually, a growing number of scientists, bioethicists, and legal scholars have been making the case that highly sapient and cognitively complex animals should be awarded personhood status, which would afford them special protections.
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And with last year's COP 22 taking place in Morocco, the responsibility has shifted to the governments of Muslim majority countries and their religious leaders to step up and play their role in the growing grassroots movement accross Muslim communities around the globe, to reverse the effects of climate change.
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Check out more videos from VICE: Quentin Dubrulle, the founder of Unéole - a company that builds residential wind turbines made of local linen - was driven by Rev3 since its inception: " Rev3 has created a grassroots movement to spur a low-carbon society based on innovative and local initiatives," he said.
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" Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman said in a statement that the senator's comments were "a reference to the political price Senate Republican will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision.
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" Jeff Weaver, a senior Sanders strategist who served as campaign manager in 2016, said that while the Democratic Party has seen "a great transformation" in Sanders's own image, "a small sliver of the party that adheres to failed neo-liberal policies will fight very hard to stop Bernie Sanders and this grassroots movement.
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Though a minor character, the most memorably described figure in the book comes early: Clinton true-believer Adam Parkhomenko, whose desire to see her elected president was so passionate that it led him to found the scrappy grassroots movement Ready for Hillary and spend a full decade tirelessly fighting to make her POTUS.
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The protests disrupted pride events earlier this month in Columbus, Ohio and Washington, DC. Their causes varied -- police shootings, violence against transgender women of color, mass deportations, corporate sponsorship of Pride -- but organizer Angela Peoples said members of the grassroots movement were united by concerns of the "whitewashing" of the LGBTQ community.
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The ERA, which would have amended the Constitution to prohibit sex discrimination, seemed like a bipartisan inevitability — until Schlafly started a ruthlessly effective grassroots movement to convince housewives that the ERA would erase all legal differences between men and women, leading to horrors like "homosexual marriage," unisex bathrooms, or women in combat.
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"This all-female group of endorsers will play key roles in the campaign's Women for Biden grassroots movement—a national network of supporters working to connect and organize other women to help get Joe elected because of his unmatched record fighting for women's health care, paychecks, safety, and families," the campaign said.
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"Since leaving his job at Venture for America to run for president almost two years ago, he has devoted his time and energy to travel across our country to talk with voters and build a grassroots movement that has him now among one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination," Lee added.
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"There are a number of different ways that Bernie Sanders could continue to have an influence in 2016, whether he's the president, or a leader in the US Senate with an incredibly large grassroots movement behind him," said Neil Sroka, communications director for Democracy for America, a progressive group allied with the Sanders campaign.
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The Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars joined organizations Moms Demand Action – a grassroots movement of Americans who demand reasonable solutions to address the nation's culture of gun violence – and Everytown for Gun Safety – a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities – to discuss gun violence and safety.
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Now, with a faux-populist installed in the White House—and with the rest of the government under the control of a Republican Party whose platform bears little if any resemblance to the actual wishes and needs of the public—the left has a rare opportunity to organize a new and genuine grassroots movement.
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"This vote was the result of an incredible grassroots movement across Maryland, and especially in Western Maryland, that demanded the legislature protect their families, livelihoods, and clean water and air from the irreversible damage caused by fracking," said Betsy Nicholas, executive director of the Waterkeepers Chesapeake group, a member of an anti-fracking coalition in the state.
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"Message to all the 'Republican' elites throwing in for Hillary, boasting they'll stay home instead of vote because their particular weakened good ol' boy is not the GOP nominee (the R.A.T.s suffering chappedass because their power and purse are threatened by the grassroots movement to destroy their failed politics-as-usual), Hillary thanks you," Palin wrote.
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The march will target a broad set of problems facing LGBTQ Americans, according to organizers: The "Equality March for Unity & Pride" is a grassroots movement which will mobilize the diverse LGBTQ+ communities to peacefully and clearly address concerns about the current political landscapes and how it is contributing to the persecution and discrimination of LGBTQ+ individuals.
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"At the start of this campaign, we laid out how Elizabeth is going to win the primary and the general election — by identifying the deep problems the country faces, creating plans to solve them, and building a grassroots movement to win in 2020 and make big, structural change in 2021 and beyond," campaign manager Roger Lau wrote to supporters, according to CNN.
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As such, an event like BerniePalooza is the perfect metaphor for the "Not Me, Us" ethos at the heart of the Senator's campaign—the idea that change will only happen if a grassroots movement brings new voters into the process and gets loud and organized enough to convince the recalcitrant politicians who have the power to enact policies like a $15 dollar minimum wage Medicare For All.
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But the Charlottesville rally called attention to an important fault line between the ACLU's traditional vision of justice and the way the progressive grassroots movement sees justice in 2017: a fight over whether the best way to protect the powerless is to stand against the principles that could be used to crush them, or simply to stand on the side of people seeking social equality by whatever means are necessary.
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Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown had all recently been killed by the police, and members of a huge, mostly white grassroots movement called Open Carry Texas were hoisting long guns at Walmarts and Chipotles across the state; Gun Club members wanted to appropriate the rather depoliticized Open Carry Texas strategy to the more militant ends of taking a stand against police brutality by conducting armed patrols.
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But he risks a slow fade from the pack as some Democrats look for a fresh face who might defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and recapture a 2020 version of the magic that propelled Sanders to claim a grassroots "movement" and "revolution" in 200063.
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So far, Rev3 has mobilized youth, startups, associations, businesses, nonprofits and private initiatives, giving impetus to a grassroots movement that is rewriting the region's future because of the following five objectives: Check out more videos from VICE Impact: To find out what it all means for the rust belt's newfound economic boom, VICE Impact spoke with Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts de France region and Philippe Rapeneau, vice-president and head of the region's Third Industrial Revolution implementation.
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Internally, there is still a question of which Democratic faction can cash in on this momentum, and whether voters will follow the liberal grassroots movement personified in Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE and his acolytes, or if they will stick with those favored by the establishment and machine bosses.
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Today marks the one year anniversary of the historic Women's March on Washington — the beginning of a grassroots movement for change, a strong rebuke of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and his oppressive philosophy, and a message to people across the world: we will not succumb to fear.
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Lau noted that the campaign's biggest expense at the moment is staff but said he expects that to soon become media spending, with a bigger bulk of the expenditure going towards digital ads than TV. "At the start of this campaign, we laid out how Elizabeth is going to win the primary and the general election -- by identifying the deep problems the country faces, creating plans to solve them, and building a grassroots movement to win in 2020 and make big, structural change in 2021 and beyond," Lau wrote.
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