That doesn't mean that environmentalists should simply hand the movement over to the grassroots, demonstration-staging left.
This time around, as the grassroots demonstrations have gained steam, citizens have demanded that both the president and the country's supreme cleric step down.
The growing trend towards commercializing marches into parades with events receiving corporate sponsorship has caused concern about taking away the autonomy of the original grassroots demonstrations that put inexpensive activism in the hands of individuals.
Republican lawmakers say the legislation is intended to limit the influence of paid protesters, a popular conservative conspiracy-theory scapegoat for grassroots demonstrations that have been intensifying since the election of President Donald Trump.
This is yet another sign of the dangers of corporate education reform and the lengths its proponents are willing to go to stifle dissent and subvert democracy, including resorting to the use of astroturfing, or "fake grassroots" demonstrations and groups.
On Saturday, around 150,000 people participated in Ireland's first mass, grassroots anti-austerity demonstration.
While trying to give the appearance of a "grassroots" uprising, the demonstrations are cover for a corporate-lobbyist engineered harassment strategy that encourages participants to "yell," "stand up and shout," and "rattle" elected officials in favor of reforming health care.
Labour's leadership election has been an extraordinary demonstration of grassroots democracy and public participation, which has turned the conventional wisdom about politics on its head.
More recently, as violence worsened in the Eighties, the meira paibis ("torch bearers"), groups of grassroots women protesters, led demonstrations for peace.
