Grassroots

received his Ph.D. from Boston University in Anthropology. Dr. Igoe has taught at major universities: the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Virginia. He also established an NGO called Bridge (Bridge for Indigenous Development and Grassroots Empowerment). This NGO, amongst other things, promotes indigenous conservation efforts. Founded in 1989, Thomson Wadsworth is a provider of books, multimedia and online solutions for the social sciences. In this chapter, Igoe supports…

everyone knew each other. When Polly was taken from her upstairs bedroom it caused an outrage, bad things didn’t happen in small towns like this! Jennifer Warren, an L.A. times writer said, “Polly's abduction galvanized her hometown, sparking a massive grassroots search that dramatically altered the standard approach to missing child cases.” But with every negative, comes a positive; two men by the names of Gary French and Bill Rhodes made it known to officers that Polly’s poster could be…

NAMI stands for National Alliance on Mental Illnesses. NAMI is the biggest national grassroots organization that is dedicated to building better lives for those with mental illnesses. The In Our Own Voice presentation that we had watched in class is part of NAMI. What the presentation is meant to do is to eliminate the stigma that most people have about mental illnesses, and to educate about the different kinds of mental illnesses. I have never had a stigma about mental illnesses, because the…

volunteering at a nursing home for the enlightenment and helping me to become attentive to the needs of others. It is easy to sympathize at a distance, albeit I value compassion that evokes act of service. Within this program there is attention to grassroots services and encouraging research within low socioeconomic areas, the same visions I will bring to fruition as a…

Burt’s Bees is another very environmental company just as the webpage for Burt’s Bees mentions Bees thought them how to run a company that is one of their signatures as a company meaning that they are committed to make the world greener, cleaner and working with natural products making sure that nothing goes to the dump. They have monthly volunteering activities in which they contribute to recycling and making sure that everything gets done the correct way. This company really takes the…

In the summer of 2013, I was overlooking the Panama Canal from its bank, watching some of the largest cargo ships in the world glide through with ease. At first glance, this was all I and the other students I was with saw. Then our tour guide asked us to think about the intrinsic value of the Canal. He illustrated to us the billions of dollars in revenue the Panama Canal brings in every year, the tens of thousands of jobs the Canal provides for Panamanians, and described how the Panama Canal has…

political parties however are reluctant as to whether or not they should form an alliance and are therefore skeptical about becoming one party. The public believes that if they were ever to unite it would eventually destroy the Republican Party’s grassroots…

Perhaps that 2008 election was considered the ultimate solution of the minorities and thus the grassroots campaigns as noted by Gibson (2015) were inspired by the need to influence change in the country. Although the CIC framework by Gibson (2015) proves to offer a solution for such minorities towards propagating their agendas, Bimber et al (2015) are…

In July 2014 Bill Robinson a writer for the Huffington Post, posts an interview titled, TechView: Linus Torvalds, Inventor of Linux. This interview was three months after Linus Torvald received the 2014 IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award for an outstanding individual who, at least 15years earlier had made contributions to the creation and the continued vitality of the computer industry. In this interview Linus Torvals discusses things such as where he sees technology going in the…

The desire for universal healthcare has been a social movement that America has been striving for since even before the 20th century. Universal healthcare and insurance coverage is something America is still striving for. After reading Healthcare Reform and Social Movements in the United States by Beatrix Hoffman, the struggle for national healthcare was clearly displayed. The first instance of social movement towards universal healthcare was expressed in this article in the year 1904. “The…