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GRASSROOTS
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The
Better World Movement does not belong to any one group
or organization. All you have to do is decide to make
'a better world' your goal.Then reach out to and find
others to start a BetterWorld Club. BetterWorld
Clubs is a free grassroots network. When you start
a club locally, you connect to a global community.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
The
environmental movement is one of the most successful
social change movements. Popularizing Earth Day celebrations
can be credited with bringing the movement to the
mainstream. Through grassroots efforts, festivals,
fairs, assemblies and concerts have helped popularize
concern for our environment in the public's mind.
Since so many people participate in Earth Day activities,
Earth Day is the perfect opportunity to get people
to tap-into the better world movement, so that they
can find the inspiration and encouragement to continue
activities for a more peaceful, just and sustainable
world all year long. -- Robert Alan Silverstein
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Even
though mother's issues are not front page news, they
touch us all personally, some more than others, and
I believe passionately in the power of grassroots
engagement.
-- Joan
Blades
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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual"
environmentalism that is generally practiced by the
more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented
groups. The focus of activists of color and their
constituents reflects their life experiences of social,
economic, and political disenfranchisement.
-- Robert
Bullard
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There's
enormous progressive activism and, more often than
not, success at the grassroots level - everything
from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our
elections are having terrific success.
-- Jim
Hightower
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The
Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations,
both grassroots activists for justice, and national
and international social change agents.
-- Helen
LaKelly Hunt
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It
was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ...
The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration
of concern for the environment so large that it would
shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.
~ Gaylord
Nelson
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“There
are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal
and progressive change in America: good public policy,
grassroots organizing and electoral politics.”
-- Paul
Wellstone
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We
are intent on building a movement. The next step is
grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue
around the covenants.
-- Cornel
West
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