Most of these films highlight grassroots issues; many now command powerful platforms.
Feminism is still seen as elitist in a country where the majority of the population is rural and has "grassroots" issues to deal with.
Grassfire's president Steve Elliott has a solid right wing resume, according to his bio, which says that Elliott "has rallied citizens on a host of grassroots issues, including border security, tax reform, abortion, traditional marriage, supporting our troops, exposing media bias and defending the Pledge of Allegiance".
Rep. Ro Khanna, a progressive Democrat who represents Silicon Valley, called Feinstein "out of touch" with the grassroots on issues like the economy and foreign policy.
A day before ALEC convened its Washington, D.C., conference, more than 100 national, state and grassroots organizations issued a joint letter urging ALEC state lawmakers to reject the group's anti-environmental agenda, cancel their memberships, and encourage their colleagues to do so as well.
Leftists were relegated to the Democratic Party and to liberalism, and have pursued meaningful grassroots activism on issues such as gay marriage, the war on drugs, and political corruption.
Meanwhile, Focus on the Family maintained a network of state-level organisations that worked on grassroots conservative political issues and kept local Republicans in check.
Representing a large number of NGOs under the national social watch coalition, Behar has told the commission that the NGOs in the coalition will collect feedback from the grassroots on various issues that the approach paper shortlists.
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