In northern Syria, in territories which have long been abandoned by the ultra-violent Assad regime, the Kurds have been busy establishing grassroots democratic assemblies which extend right down to neighbourhood level.
Its spirit of direct democracy has clicked with the Quebec student union's history of grassroots organizing through decentralized general assemblies.
David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists, was still considering whether to appeal to his party grassroots over his MPs and assembly members.
If there's a dramatic reduction in the number of councillors in Wales, particularly in the south Wales valleys, then many of them will be Labour members who act as grassroots campaigners at the general and assembly elections.
Grassroots neighborhood meetings, community trainings, and church assemblies have gone hand-in-hand with legislative teach-ins, governmental hearings, statewide rallies, and national conferences.
First, the existing structures at the grassroots level (such as village council meetings, village general assemblies and health facility governing committees) that could be used to steer stakeholder engagement were not functioning well due to lack of incentives and low level of awareness of their roles and responsibilities.
The candidate forum served as the finale to a three-day assembly of the so-called netroots — Internet meets grassroots — that carried the feel of a mini-national political convention.
He often reports on complaints across the country of grassroots troops passing out Bibles on school grounds or hosting Christian rock bands at school assemblies.
Back then the people from 15-M [the grassroots community activist group that rose to international prominence during the 2011 Indignados protests] were holding public assemblies in a square every day.
The debut public performance of Tory grassroots darling Stephen Greenhalgh as Boris Johnson's new policing deputy was so petulant and inept that even Conservative assembly member Victoria Borwick told him to his face that, "You have not made a good start to your tenure".
