Walker launched a controversial effort to roll back the power of Wisconsin's public employee unions, and the unions pushed back, aided by strong, grassroots solidarity from many sectors.
He insists he sees signs of the perfectibility of humanity everywhere, claiming that globally violence rates are falling, and that signs of grassroots solidarity are everywhere.
In Poland, the firing in 1980 of Anna Walentynowicz, a shipyard worker, led to strikes and the formation of the grassroots Solidarity movement that set in motion the unraveling of the Soviet empire.
Platanos, a grassroots solidarity group of Greek and international volunteers operating in Skala Sykamnias, a major arrival point in Lesbos' north, is one of them.
Shortly after the Premier League announced the deal for domestic rights, it revealed that 20% of that would be invested in facilities for grassroots football, solidarity payments to lower-league clubs, encouraging participation, as well as education and support for disadvantaged groups.
He talks about the power of music to provide solidarity, grassroots creativity, and more.
Red Tails, with its success at the box office, majority African-American cast and white main funder, invites a powerful conversation about race, access, allies, solidarity, grassroots movements, cooption, and history that all Americans should be engaged in.
I look at the solidarity grassroots movements, which have sprung up to provide medical care for people who can no longer afford it or shelter for the thousands of Syrian refugees coming through our borders.
However, let us consider this: when Mohamed Bouzizi set himself a blaze that Friday morning he did not have the external validation of a grassroots nation wide solidarity, or media coverage.
Beijing's on-going crackdown in Tibet has brought about something that China's leaders didn't expect but should have predicted--a grassroots movement of solidarity among Tibetans, and with it, a seemingly limitless number of men and women willing to risk imprisonment and even death for a single gesture of freedom.
Rather, the movement to #BringBackOurGirls, which actually originated in Nigeria, has thus far demonstrated the virtues of solidarity and grassroots international cooperation, within and beyond the African diaspora.
