Seen in that context, the Robinson strategy could be seen as a Dad's Army-style "don't panic" message to his own grassroots, making it clear to Protestants that, even if the demographic gap is closing, there's no reason to assume Northern Ireland's status within the UK is under threat.
According to their Facebook event page, "Here in Minneapolis, six actors and writers have formed The Hacktor's Collective to perform 'The Agony And The Ecstasy...'. for one night only at The Hack Factory, the home of Twin Cities Maker, a community group whose mission is to encourage the grassroots making, sharing and learning of media and technologies".
In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organisation made up mostly of poor women from rural areas.
Comprehensive immigration reform had failed, after conservative anger at the grassroots level made Republicans reluctant to cut any deal.
Claiming that "The Great Augean Stable at Washington wants cleansing," grassroots insurgents made Andrew Jackson the first serious candidate for president who had plebeian origins.
"These demonstrations represent a new grassroots force made possible by social media tools such as Weibo (China's Twitter), the messenger service QQ and online forums," said Monica Tan, a Web editor with Greenpeace East Asia, writing on The Diplomat blog.
The protesters were part of La PAH (Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, or "Mortgage Victims Platform"), a grassroots movement made famous when its former spokeswoman, Ada Colau, was elected Barcelona mayor.
This became clear in the early hours of Friday morning when Evan Harris, the former Liberal Democrat MP who is guardian of the party's grassroots interests, made clear there is goodwill towards Clegg.
In February 2001, outside the Manila theatre where the play was being staged, there were national rallies organised by Gabriela, a militant national alliance of 200 Philippine women's grassroots groups, made up of peasant women, farmworkers, teachers, the urban poor, and migrant women.
That almost manufactured grassroots approach made Giant a big, publicly traded company.
