Word: grassrooters
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...just about them, but by them and for them. "Riot Grrrl" got lots of misguided (and sometimes hostile) publicity as a mass movement, but if the term means anything specific (besides Bikini Kill's fanzine) it's the relatively small community of women who've entered underground music and grassroot politics as a result of Bikini Kill and company's examples...
...base and philosophy are self-help and a grassroot challenge to the patriarcal system," the statement says. "Self-help is a tool which works on many levels; demystifying the medical establishment, demystifying our bodies, providing the means and methods whereby we are able to take responsibility over our health care, our lives and our environment...
...contributions from a small number of conseravtive adults (rather than membership dues), is far and away the most impresive of any student political organization; and, YAF policy appears, not coincidentally, to be tightly managed in its national headquarters. From its founding in 1960, YAF grew to a peak in grassroot support during the Goldwater-Johnson campaign of 1964. Since then, YAF has probably been best known for its efforts in behalf of the administration's Vietnam policy -- demonstrations of support for various escalations toward a "military victory," blood donations, Christmas packages for the troops, and so forth...
United Artists deserves credit for this attempt to combine semi-documentary crime data with a plea for grassroot citizen reform. Thanks to imaginative direction and a fastmoving scenario, Captive City ranks well above average as a crime saga. Its moral message is somewhat less impressive...
Edwin May Teale did a lot more, however, than sprawl on his belly meditating, more than setting down his meditations on paper. He went about making his imaginings real for other men and last week published a book, Grassroot Jungles* the fruit of six years' study and expert photography of what...