Sitting on this committee was a large retailer, Merseyway Shopping Centre and members of the Chamber of Commerce, hardly the type of grassroots, community leadership that was needed to deliver fresh, new and exciting ideas.
They democratize science and initiate a type of grassroots "science diplomacy", supporting research in developing countries.
This type of grassroots movement may seem unlikely to many readers but citizens' movements of many kinds already exist throughout Bangladesh.
The reform programme he supports, known as "Common Core", has been adopted by 46 states but is being fiercely resisted by the type of grassroots conservative activists who turn out for Republican presidential primaries in droves.
Rather than engage in an argument here about the feasibility of this type of grassroots action under present circumstances, we simply wish to point out that meaningful change towards ecocentric and democratic governance will not occur in the absence of effective grassroots movements.
This is the type of grassroots activism that I expected to see in the months leading up to what will be the tightest mayoral race in decades.
The overexposure will make it that much easier for him to raise funds and build the type of grassroots organization he'll need to be any kind of real threat.
(Though, I doubt those saying that actually know anything about The Resistance, which is all about non-violence. It's about all the little things we can do, and the type of grassroots programs we can implement to prevent any one person from becoming a dictator of our beloved country).
Not, perhaps, a striking example of grassroots democracy.
