Rand Paul told me that one of the lessons of the 1976 Convention is that the current divisions in the Republican Party have been there all along: "There have always been more of a business class and more of a conservative class, more of a grassroots class and more of a moneyed class".
The election of Mustafa Akinci as Turkish Cypriot leader last weekend has caused some to hope for change, but the contrast between political division and grassroots unity can be exasperating to many activists.
Consistent with traditional divisions between grassroots and professionalized SMOs, we expected that informants would report differences, and perhaps even hostility, in how the two SMOs were positioned in relation to government.
According to researcher Maha Azzam, this symbolized the disintegration of Fatah and the division between the grassroots organization and the current leadership.
Social work was the first profession to capture the grassroots spirit of the latter part of the 20th century and to challenge inequalities and social divisions in relation to gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, disability, culture, class and belief.
Lord Kinnock, the former Labour leader and still a good judge of party mood, claims this division may not be matched at grassroots level.
Sharp divisions have emerged within Momentum, the grassroots organisation that supports Jeremy Corbyn, following reports of an attempted takeover by Trotskyist and factional groups, an executive committee member has claimed.
Labour's divisions have trickled right down to grassroots level and one of the repercussions of this is that party activists no longer want to campaign together.
The debate will illuminate the division between the leadership and the Lib Dem grassroots.
From its inception in 2003, Scion, a division of Toyota, has made rampant use of grassroots marketing to recruit owners like Mr. Wong — young, enthusiastic, industrious — to be the hot-rodders of tomorrow.
