Drawing on grassroots support, the Gülenists continued to stack the judiciary and police forces with followers loyal to the movement.
Such a global institution would promote peacemaking efforts that draw upon grassroots initiatives that make all people participatory shareholders in peace.
An ensuing war between a well-armed Salvadoran military government and well-coordinated grassroots socialist rebels drew Washington's immediate attention.
After winning a come-from-behind victory in the Democratic primary, de Blasio built a powerful grassroots campaign that drew on unions, community organizations, and other progressives.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sanders hit the 1 million goal faster than President Barack Obama, who, like Sanders, drew much of his support from grassroots donors and a robust online and social media presence.
While Fletcher had the endorsement of the establishment-linked group EMILY's List, Moser drew support from less well-heeled progressive grassroots groups like Democracy for America and Our Revolution, the successor group to Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt).
(They also helped us livestream our Web Grassroots panel, which at one point drew an online audience of 2,600 people).
Unfortunately, Vermont Leads doesn't draw on the formidable grassroots network created since 2008 by the Vermont Workers Centerr (VWC --and seems designed to bypass the state's most influential single payer adVWC --and
Fittingly, the mercurial Shadow Chancellor has pulled off the trick of pleasing the Labour grassroots and drawing praise from the likes of Jim O'Neill, the former Chairman of Goldman Sachs asset management, who wrote in the Financial Times that Labour's "readiness to explore new ways of shaking up the status quo is admirable".
He developed a grassroots calculus of white offense against blackness and produced a patchwork framework of demonology that drew from the Nation and the black power struggles that he both inspired and absorbed.
He also drew attention on Twitter to the fact that, in the past, Zimmerman agreed to participate in events attended by activists with the BDS movement — a grassroots campaign to boycott, divest, and sanction Israeli institutions.
