grassroots

The term grassroots, among activists and community organizers, refers to an independent nationally unaffiliated organization, governed by and serving the needs of the people. A grassroots movement is an upstart movement usually devoid of corporate investors and sponsors. 

Grassroots organization and movements utilize volunteers to distribute the main goals and objectives of the movement and often have offices dispersed throughout surrounding neighborhoods.

To be grassroots is to have an ideology or political stance, which has newly developed in response to the environmental needs of a local population. For this reason, grassroots organizations generate money from local business leaders and community organizers.  

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “grassroots”

 

• New York City’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Racial Profiling Case at Final Arguments

  
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  Kimani Gray, 16, New York ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Shooting VictimChocolate City is following the final arguments of the class action lawsuit taking place in Manhattan, NY. The two months racial profiling trial is set to conclude today. The federal class action trial involves the City of New York’s stop-and-frisk ...
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• The Evolution of Influence

  
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  Courtesy of Helping Psychology Influence. Thats a neat word. According to Dictionary.com , influence is "the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others" . In other words, its how effective you are in transforming ...
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• Single Review: ‘Lend a Hand’ by William Freeman!

  
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  ACRE Records is an independent Scottish music label, where Black and White Boy (an artist featured in Friday’s Five #11) works. Well I was introduced to another one of their acts, William Freeman, whose first single, ‘Lend a Hand, is released today. This song starts off with a misty atmosphere and spring riffs. ...
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• Freedom Out Of Bounds

  
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  For all the discussion in the United States today about the proper function and role of our federal government, there are a few arguments that seem to always surface when discussing state power. These arguments are not exclusive to our mainstream political parties either. Our politicians always boast what is best for ...
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• IRS Admits It Targeted the Tea Party

  
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  The admission by an official of the IRS that the tax agency was targeting conservative tea party groups comes as no surprise to those who work with tea party organizations and their leaders in the conservative grassroots arena. The Washington Post reports that Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS division that ...
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• “Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalour,” a lecture by Professor Simon Thurley [56:09]

  
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  I like architecture and urban planning, so you can see why I am intrigued by this lecture delivered from Gresham College (who has been all about talks open to the public since 1597 [!]) by Proffesor Thurley . This is totally one of those things you can put on and then walk away from, since there are only a few ...
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• In Data We Trust

  
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  With his effort to reassert control of the Republican Partys campaign strategy and tactics, Karl Rove is making the right as angry as he ever made the left.
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• You Don’t Think We Are Doomed?

  
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  A Reader’s Digest Poll provided proof that we are, indeed, doomed. It conducted a poll of 1000 people (how that few people can actually be construed to represent the entire country is perplexing) to find who the most trusted people in the country are. The results are just plain stupid – and frightening. Number ...
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• Community Activists Say Bank Of America Is A Destabilizing Force In Chicago (VIDEO)

  
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  Bank of America (BOA) serves as a destabilizing force in Chicago’s blighted communities, according to approximately 50 protesters who took their message to a downtown branch on Tuesday. Organized by the Grassroots Collaborative on the eve of Bank of America’s shareholder meeting in North Carolina, demonstrators ...
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• Honda’s endorsers & Khanna’s ‘digital advocates’

  
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  The battle for the 17th Congressional District continues as Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, rolls out a new batch of endorsements and Democratic challenger Ro Khanna fires up his digital grassroots. Honda on Tuesday announced the endorsements of state Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, Assembly Speaker John ...
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• Real Leadership Comes from Tea Party Senators

  
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  Forget what you think you know about the Republican leadership in the United States Senate. Sure, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is the Minority Leader of the Senate Republican Conference, but the real leadership lies with at least three members. Writing at the Washington Examiner, Tim Carney notes that Sens. Rand ...
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• The betrayal of marriage has cost the Tories votes. It could cost them the election too

  
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  Last week’s local election disaster, when Tories lost 335 council seats, is down to David Cameron’s “redefinition” of marriage. The Conservative Grassroots group has warned the Government that its failure to give married couples a tax break, despite the measure being on the Tory Party manifesto, and its ...
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• Talk Radio Alert: Missouri Grassroots Radio Wednesday

  
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  On Wednesday night at 7, I’ll be a guest on Missouri Grassroots Radio with host Lisa Payne-Naeger.  We’ll talk about my just-released second nonfiction book, THE CLAPPER MEMO . While visiting the program’s BlogTalk Radio website , I noticed one of the goals listed was “thoroughly vetting ...
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• Listen to Missouri Grassroots Radio Wednesday Night

  
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  On Wednesday night at 7, I’ll be a guest on Missouri Grassroots Radio with host Lisa Payne-Naeger. We’ll talk about my just-released second nonfiction book, THE CLAPPER MEMO. While visiting the program’s BlogTalk Radio website, I noticed one of the … Continue reading →
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• I’m in deep

  
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  GAS! ( Garcetti Action Squad, what my sister and I call ourselves) were fired up to meet Jan Perry and the other primary candidates who are all supporting Eric Garcetti for Mayor of LA.  None of them have the worldwide … Continue reading → The post I’m in deep appeared first on Cool Mom - Funny videos ...
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• Despicable Optimists

  
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  For German intellectuals, optimism is a sort of American mental illness. Read more in this post at NoTricksZone , the blog of an admirable American living in Germany .
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• WELCOME HOME HUNTERS: DRIFTBASHING IN SWEDEN

  
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  I’ve met a few people in my time who really don’t like travel at all. They find the removal of their familiar day-to-day touchstones to be the cause of great distress. When faced with foreign food, alien languages and unknown rules, they clam up and panic. Thankfully I’m not like this at all. I really [...] The ...
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• What it means to be a grassroots environmental organization

  
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  By Dadit Hidayat, The Natural Step Monona Board Member When I joined The Natural Step Monona (TNS Monona) as a volunteer back in the fall of 2008, I was just starting my graduate study: working to understand and document the connections between scientific information, sustainability, and grassroots movements. I ...
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• HIV Organizations Team Up to “Know It, Prove It, Change It”

  
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  While many organizations focus on education and safe-sex awareness,   HIV Advocates knows that advocacy is crucial for the cause. This is why HIV Advocates features the accomplishments of grassroots organizations around the world and highlights advocates’ stories. A group of three organizations in Asia have come ...
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• Conservation without supervision: Peruvian community group creates and patrols its own protected area

  
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  When we think of conservation areas, many of us think of iconic National Parks overseen by uniformed government employees or wilderness areas purchased and run from afar by big-donor organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, or Conservation International. But what happens to ...
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