Grassroots

Local governments can do a better job of protecting human health and the environment than can the federal government. In classic conservative political theory, the “most significant form of government is what is closest to the people” (Veith 2012). In other words, local governments, in which the citizens select their neighbors to govern the community, are the most important forms of government. As the levels of government become more distant from the people who elected them, political…

as Palestinian women was not seen as a possibility. The intersectional identities of Palestinian women are ignored in favor of singular identification. The method through which PFWAC operates is one “structured by field conditions, the extensive grassroots organizing…

In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court Citizens United ruling struck down the ban on limiting corporate and union contributions and financing of elections. This ruling unleashed a wave of unlimited spending on political ads and other strategic to support candidates and/or damage the image of opposition candidates. The court decision was divided in a 5-4 vote. Essentially, this decision made it permissible for corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums of money on efforts to sway…

Alexsandra Hall Professor Marchesano FY 1000 17 December 12th, 2016 Social Justice Social Justice has always been an issue in society, especially now more than ever. The term social justice means to promote a sustainable society which challenges injustices. However, everyone has a different interpretation of the term. People like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, all fought for social justice; each having a different approach. Martin Luther King Jr. similar to Gandhi,…

Introduction The National Rifle Association has diversity amongst the members from different backgrounds, ethnic cultures, and lifestyles. With nearly five million members nationwide, the NRA is able to rally their members together by one common idea, the freedom to bear arms under the second amendment. With our nation going through changes, the members of the NRA have also prepared for what lies ahead. Membership The types of people that join the NRA all have their purposes, many being life…

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer stands out in the social­-psychological literature because of it’s author’s notorious lack of formal education and for the conclusions he drew about social movements and their participants. Hoffer, seeking to better understand the prognosis of large social movements and how they gain and lose members, applies numerous theoretical examples to illustrate his arguments including Nazism, Christianity, Islam, and Communism.…

An interest group is a collection of people who try to influence politics or the policies of government, business, etc., in a way that helps their own interests. The power of an interest group varies depending on the time and specific group, but generally speaking, their power and presence remains a constant on the political scene today. Today, countless interest groups are trying to address the issue of the rising cost of education in the U.S. If I or individuals like myself, who just finished…

advocated for free market economics, weakening of union control, cutting public expenditure for social services, especially welfare and extensive deregulation. It is important to note that prevalence of neoliberalism was substantially driven by grassroots campaigns from citizen groups (Lecture 15). These include the tax revolt campaign which argued that property taxes were rising faster in comparison to income. In 1978, the people of California passed Proposition 13 which reduced the states…

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court delivered the decision in one of the most controversial, pivotal educational and societal cases in American history, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483. This landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This ruling appeared to apply to all minority groups of children as well as the common practiced racial segregation of the…

This will empower the ASEAN Secretariat and result to a more effective compliance mechanism within the region. The group must also take steps in bringing the AEC to the grassroots level. This can be done by intensifying its awareness campaign through information dissemination programs and engaging the local and private sectors. ASEAN member nations should prepare the groundwork in their respective countries to “build more…