Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the CCA and other political groups have been active in trying to reach new segments of the population, the Rainbow's organizers say that the efforts have not penetrated far enough. What is needed, they say, is a grass-roots movement which will reach the housing projects. The Rainbow Committee, they say, is an attempt to fill...
...Certain people in the CCA have noticed that that other part has been missing, and they've been reaching out," says spokesperson Janet Murray. "A group that's more specifically grass roots-oriented will do a better job of reaching that goal...
Council hopeful Rena Leib says that she believes the Rainbow's grass-roots approach may be better able to push for affordable housing and other benefits for the city's disenfranchised, issues which have in the past caused dissension among the CCA ranks...
...shirt and heavy work pants, plodding up and down a freeway embankment in the piney woods near his home. Foreman isn't just climbing the steep hill. He is maneuvering up it backward -- up and back, up and back -- a modern-day Sisyphus, sweating and straining in the heavy grass. As he moves, the old fighter hurls jabs and uppercuts at the blazing sun with his prodigious arms...
...weeks to come, pro-life groups will go on the offensive in such states as Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, South Carolina, Michigan and, of course, Missouri, where strong grass-roots organizations already exist and the legislatures are larded with sympathetic officials. Pro- lifers will attempt to go well beyond the provisions in the Missouri statute. In some states bills may be introduced that would make a woman seeking an abortion listen to the fetal heartbeat and look at pictures of a fetus at the same level of development as hers...