Sentence examples for citizen organizing from inspiring English sources

In each of these shifts in public policy, public interest lawyers played an important role in tandem with citizen organizing and political action.

More recently he served as the associate director of United Power for Action and Justice, an ambitious metropolitan wide citizen organizing effort that was part of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) network.

Marc also is a former Director of Northeast Action, a regional support center for citizen organizing and advocacy in New England and New York, and a key leader of progressive organizing and electoral efforts in Connecticut.

A center-left coalition won a narrow plurality in the lower house of parliament with about 29.6 per cent of the vote, barely edging Berlusconi's center-right coalition, with Grillo's Five Star Movement, a loose collection of citizens organizing over the Internet, gaining an astonishing 25.6 per cent, more than any single party.

Average citizens organizing to resist the decrees of those in power — when you think about it, that doesn't sound so dissimilar from the situation Alexander Hamilton and co.

A handful of neo-Nazis staged a march in May, but local citizens organized a much larger counterdemonstration. Local Christian leaders have rallied around Rabbi Goldberg.

"The lack of a gathering place makes it hard to provide services for senior citizens, organize children's cultural activities or promote business networking".

The intifadas began with throwing stones, but degenerated into suicide attacks on Israeli citizens, organized by Palestinians with support from parts of the Arab world.

If The Times supports the right of American citizens organized as a corporation to exercise their First Amendment rights on behalf of terrorist organizations, why doesn't it support the right of citizens organized as business corporations, advocacy groups and unions to support or oppose candidates?

In 1905, under the auspices of leading private citizens organized as the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco, Burnham devised for San Francisco a far more comprehensive plan.

When the transcontinental railway was built through Wyoming, Denver's citizens organized their own railway, completed in 1870, to connect with the Union Pacific at Cheyenne; the Kansas Pacific Railroad reached Denver shortly thereafter.