Environmental justice literature indicates that women and people of color have historically fueled the grassroots activism of the environmental justice movement (Brown and Mikkleson 1997; Bullard 1990 , 1993 Cable 1992; Edelstein 1988; Faber 1998; Levine 1982).
They also channeled frustration with a historically unpopular president into grassroots energy that propelled them back to power in a number of districts that Democrats haven't represented in years, in some cases decades, like the Virginia district where Democrat Abigail Spanberger defeated Republican Dave Brat in a district that a Democrat hasn't represented since 1970.
Anonymous has historically operated as an amorphous, grassroots-style organization with no visible leadership or membership structure.
In other words, open-source software permeates itself through the true experts, and makes the selection process much more grassroots than it has ever been historically.
In other words, the music industry is slowly morphing into what black female emcees historically have had to be: self-sufficient and grassroots.
Gallego also thinks a Castro nomination would galvanise a grassroots effort in Texas to turn the historically Republican-dominated state into a place where Democrats can compete.
The government, through largely focusing historically on "representative" groups has failed to build capacity in grassroots organisations.
There's no doubt, historically speaking, that art making today is experiencing an explosion of grassroots energy and original expression.
Jim Lusted, senior lecturer in sociology of sport at the University of Northampton, who began researching racism at grassroots level as part of his PhD, says: "County FAs have historically been run by volunteers, almost all white men, with little appreciation of, or sensitivity to, racism.
Her efforts as leader to balance political expediency and adherence to her party's grassroots origins were seen by some as raising the profile of a historically marginalized political sector, while others saw them as a betrayal of the party's bedrock countercultural values.
