Dr. John M. Ackerman described the grassroots movement that has emerged since the students disappeared as

This holistic approach will help us achieve the goal of a sustainable grassroots movement to create dialogue for change.

At the heart of the revolt is a nonviolent grassroots movement called Girifna, which means We are fed up.

The first revolutionary statement of Egypt s new grassroots Tamarod (rebel) movement demanded that Morsi leave within two days or face a march on the presidential palace.

In Algeria, Bouteflika s brother, Said, has been linked to a grassroots movement that it is rumored could eventually serve as a basis for his succession bid.

Ken Saro Wiwa, a writer and founder of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), a grassroots movement in Ogoniland, had called for this as well, before he was hanged by General Sani Abacha s junta in 1995.

Tamarod, the grassroots movement that led the recent protests by collecting millions of signatures on a petition demanding an early presidential election, has forced the fragmented liberal parties to become more disciplined.

The grassroots revolt will, of course, continue.

Elsewhere, a seemingly commendable grassroots petition movement to re establish Constitutional values at the state level turns out to be if you read the fine print a drive to enshrine Christian values in state law.

Also part of this civil grassroots movement is a group of women known as Darayya's Free Women, who engaged in numerous protests and initiatives since the beginning of the uprising, in the spring of 2011.

Grassroots media Grassroots media is focused more specifically on media making by and for the local community that it serves making the discussion more narrow and precise.

But, while grassroots pressure has not worked, money still talks.

It is tempting to dismiss other countries experiences, particularly after Egypt s youth led grassroots movement delivered something that no one thought possible (toppling in just 18 days a president that had ruled with an iron fist for 30 years).

Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country s ruling coalition.

The event sparked a campaign against local authorities and police over authorities' alleged corruption and abuses of power, but grew steadily into a grassroots movement that encompassed grievances including the economic and social marginalization of the country's mountainous Rif region.

The ability of grassroots movements to influence policy is set to increase.

The voices of both grassroots and establishment advocates have been equally decisive.

Finally, the grassroots group Havaar shared this post on their Facebook page

For once, a grassroots movement has arisen that is composed of people some with Ivy League degrees, but many without who are taking seriously the Internet age promise that you don t have to yield leadership to an established class of politicians and pundits.

But grassroots groups are needed at the table during the decision making process.

Solidarity gained the opportunity to create independent media and a grassroots political organization.

The grassroots goons are acting outside the law. I suggest to prosecute them.

However, further efforts at dissemination are needed in order to reach the grassroots level.

What it showed me is that there's a grassroots movement going on of socially responsible designers who really believe that this world has got a lot smaller, and that we have the opportunity not the responsibility, but the opportunity to really get involved in making change.

It's a grassroots campaign with 80 percent membership being women, most of whom are HIV positive.

But it is more likely that the grassroots of American populism are motivated by something else.

The Government has also taken a number of initiatives to combat poverty at the grassroots level.

Airstrikes now would merely make matters worse by undercutting the FSA s grassroots legitimacy and aiding Islamist forces.

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Lead by the grassroots movement Ayna Naqef (Where Do We Stand? a No Honor In Crime campaign), the collaboration included My Mother is Jordanian and Her Nationality is My Right, and Mush Shatara (It's Not Cool), and Against article 308 of the Jordanian Penal Code, as well as concerned independent individuals.

Even more remarkable, however, are the social (and antisocial) grassroots demonstrations that are mushrooming in affluent Western societies.

Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) is a grassroots program coordinated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Resources for the operation of national as and grassroots committees for the advancement of women have been improved.

In 2002, the LWV updated its UN position with a concurrence from the grassroots members around the country.

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Campamento Contra la Junta (Camp Against the Board), a grassroots movement of students and activists, has utilized social media to promote their permanent camp outside the US Federal Courthouse in San Juan. A group of people have established a camp outside the federal courthouse as an act of defiance and civil disobedience.

At the same time, limits on workers' ability to organize independent unions have inhibited grassroots forms of safety monitoring.

For a start, Bush could learn to get out of the way and encourage more popular and grassroots contacts.

It has to be taken down into the grassroots of nations, especially into the media of their young people.

But perhaps the most unrecognized problem in Africa, especially at the grassroots level, is the disempowerment of ordinary people.

Instead the reforms were decreed from high above, without having any grassroots support and thus with no lasting durability.

As stated in Article 12, women in rural areas enjoy better healthcare thanks to policies to improve grassroots healthcare.

We are the only international organization with a grassroots presence in virtually every country and community in the world.

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Third, thanks to Navalny s participation, the Moscow election has fostered for the first time ever genuine grassroots politics in Russia.