Faced with the usual options for senior housing and elder care, some older adults are inventing their own grassroots versions — do-it-yourself senior living that's friendlier, more autonomous and less expensive.
The "netroots"—the online version of "grassroots" political activists—spent hours in panels on policy and technology, and kept up running analyses via blogs and Twitter.
And in corporate America's version of grassroots mobilization, Allstate e-mailed 45,000 employees and agency owners urging them to call their local members of Congress and demand a deal.
She called for a progressive version of the grassroots Tea Party to emerge from the passion and resolve ignited by Democrats' stunning election losses.
But more concerning is the ever-rising level of abuse, trolling and "astroturfing" (propaganda posting – an artificial version of a grassroots campaign) currently polluting what are often illuminating and stimulating discussions.
Case examples were identified through a grassroots internet search and a modified version of snowball sampling (Atkinson & Flint, 2001).
7. The Clinic el Bazar A retail spinoff of the magazine The Clinic, Santiago's version of The Onion, this grassroots salon is stocked with an eclectic hodgepodge of vintage dresses from Vietnam, crocheted ponchos for toddlers, Lomo cameras and zines.
Version 2.0 represents an opportunity for grassroots anti-capitalists to replace their heavily worn plimsolls with a new boot shape featuring the same red dot, a clean supply chain, recycled tyre soles and organic hemp uppers.
Scholastic may be hoping to recapture some of the Harry Potter demographic, by force if necessary: the press kit announces a first printing of a million copies worldwide, a multimillion-dollar marketing blitz and a "grassroots blogging campaign"; Steven Spielberg is poised to bring out a film version.
Buzkashī has two main forms: the traditional, grassroots game, known as tūdabarāy (Persian [Dari]: "coming out of the crowd"), and the modern government-sponsored version, qarajāy ("black place").
