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”

 

• Grassroots Cinema – Trap [Short Film] [@GRMDaily]

  
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  UK broadcaster GRM Daily recently teamed up with OTS Presents to release a brand new short film as part of their grass roots cinema series. This time the short film featured is called Trap which features a short story about the aggressive parenting tactics that go on behind closed doors. If you like the video, [...] ...
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• Green Party urges mass protest against “adversarial government”, end to National Surveillance State initiated under Bush, expanded under Obama

  
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  From the Green Party of the United States: WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party today called for a mass movement to demand the dismantling of the National Surveillance State created by the National Security Agency, CIA, and Justice Department with President Obama’s approval. Greens also called for a halt to the ...
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• Joe Biden Knocks Ted Cruz, Rand Paul During Fundraiser for Democratic Candidate

  
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  During a fundraiser for Ed Markey, a Democratic running for the vacant Senate in Massachusetts, Vice President Joe Biden attacked Senate Republicans for the sway over legislation that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) hold in their caucus : At a high-dollar fundraiser [Tuesday] night in Washington, D.C., ...
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• The Return of US Drift by Brian Casse [VIDEO]

  
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  The return of US Drift happened in New Jersey this year putting a top level Pro Am series back into the northeast. The US Drift series was one of the original Pro Am series in America and Brian Casse has shown they have returned with a first event sold out with the help of Mike Collins, Brian Eggert, and Mike ...
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• AFRICA: Kenyan women become champions for stop climate change policy

  
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  Isaiah Esipisu for Thomson Reuters Foundation – WNN EarthWATCH (WNN/Thomson Reuters Foundation) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Women are due to get a bigger say in Kenya’s climate change policies after female parliamentarians representing its 47 counties joined a group that has been pushing for gender balance ...
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• AAA-Fund Endorses Aneesh Chopra for VA Lt. Gov.

  
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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gautam Dutta  (202) 236-2048   AAA-Fund Endorses Aneesh Chopra for Lieutenant Governor Asian Pacific American PAC Touts Unprecedented Opportunity to Elect First Asian American to Statewide Office in Virginia History   WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Asian American Action Fund ...
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• Groupon Grassroots Launches International Environmental Campaign With WWF

  
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  Today Groupon Grassroots (grassroots.groupon.com),  Groupon ’s (NASDAQ: GRPN) leading social innovation program, is partnering with  WWF  to globally address a common cause – the environment – by launching more than 20 campaigns around the world. The expansion of  Groupon Grassroots will enable people ...
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• Streetwise Drift Lightem Up Pro Am Round 2 [LIVE STREAM]

  
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  Streetwise Drift kicks off Round 2 of the Pro Am series at Central Florida Racing Complex is going to be on Livestream tomorrow at 5:30pm EST/2:30pm PST for the main event of competition. In case you are looking for a nice drifting fix before Wall Stadium. If you are in the Central Florida area gates open at 10:00am ...
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• Walmart Workers Call For A Living Wage, Better Work Conditions (VIDEO)

  
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  When Larry Born’s privately-owned retail business closed its doors during the recession in 2009, he sought employment at Walmart. He said he didn’t know it at the time, but he walked into a “predatory employer” that pays “slave wages.” “They use workers, then spit them out,” said Born, 54, a full-time ...
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• Bonterre sets up lax camp for Owen Sound

  
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  Retired NLL defenseman Troy Bonterre is running a summer lacrosse camp in Owen Sound in July. (Photo: Larry Palumbo)Troy Bonterre is known for a lot of things in the world of box lacrosse, the most notable among them was his role as a physical defender. That’s a euphemism for enforcer. But now that he’s retired ...
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• VOICES: From Mississippi Goddam to Jackson Hell Yes

  
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  Human rights advocate Chokwe Lumumbas election this week as mayor of Jackson, Miss. is the result of work by a new Black-led progressive coalition that intends to fight for power in a state too often written off as redneck Tea Party territory. read more
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• UA Association sets inaugural All-Star Weekend Grindsession

  
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  The nation’s top 15U, 16U, and 17U players from the Under Armour Association circuit will gather this weekend for the inaugural All Star Weekend Grindsession in Las Vegas, Nevada. Players will begin the weekend with a presentation by former NBA player and current ESPN analyst Jay Williams. On Saturday, UAA All-Stars ...
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• Michele Simon: How #Grassroots #Advocates #Beat the Biotech and Food Lobbies

  
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  This week, Connecticut won the honor of becoming the first state to pass a law requiring genetica...
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• What’s Not to Hate?

  
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  Recently I was asked to submit 4-700 words to The Progressive on Adam Levine’s “I hate this country” remark.  To see the edited version of those comments you can check their website.  For the unedited original simply see below. —————————— What’s Not to Hate? Jared A. Ball “When a man is ...
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• How to use nonviolent persuasion to neutralize opponents’ power advantages and win decisive campaign victories

  
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  The key is to contradict the stereotypical images the powerful use to keep the less powerful in their place No 766 Posted by fw, June 5, 2013 “What the white, middle-class suffragists and the black students had in common was a knack for focusing their opponents’ attention on something the opponents could not have ...
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• Nestle’s Wet Dream: They Mark Up Water 53 MILLION Percent

  
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  While the worlds attention has been on Monsantos corruption of the food supply, Nestle has been quietly draining water sources around the globe and marking it up a mind-blowing 53,908,255%, while the rest of us must deal with droughts, regulations on wells and rainwater, and rising prices. … Read More
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• USA Basketball U16 roster breakdown and scouting report

  
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  Following an extensive training camp, USA Basketball has selected the twelve members of the U16 team that will compete in the 2013 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Maldonado, Uruguay. The tournament runs from June 11 to 15, and features eight U16 national teams from North and South America. After watching a training ...
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• Critics of Health Care Law Outspending Its Supporters on Ads

  
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  Most of the commercials opposing the Affordable Care Act have come from Republican outside groups, which have spent about $400 million on the ads.        
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• WSF Elects New Board At Annual Meeting

  
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  TTR and WSR present season reports and discuss topics of interest.
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• Robust meeting of SNP Group sees growing resistance to ‘Edinburgh’ influence

  
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  A meeting of the SNP Group of Councillors in Inveraray last night is being described as ‘robust’. The key issue is that the SNP’s NEC has flatly ordered the group not to collaborate in any way with Liberal Democrats or Conservatives – failing to understand that it is the SNP itself that has made itself ...
  2 weeks ago

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