Talk:Grassroots

What is a "grassroot refinery?" Is that the same thing as a "greenfield refinery?"

I don't know where you saw the reference, but "grassroots refinery" is used as an example in the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Main Entry: grass·roots Pronunciation: 'gras-"rüts, -"ruts
Variant(s): also grass·root /-"rüt, -"rut/
Function: adjective
1 : BASIC, FUNDAMENTAL <the grassroots factor in deciding to buy a house>
2 : being, originating, or operating in or at the grass roots <a grassroots organization> <grassroots political support>
3 : not adapted from or added to an existing facility or operation : totally new <a grassroots refinery>
Tafinucane 19:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Grassroots?

Surely this should be grassroots, not grassroot? Sounds very odd to me as it stands. Lupin 14:37, 13 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. --Quuxplusone 22:11, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support —Michael Z. 2005-05-23 06:19 Z

Churches

Religious organizations often try to astroturf their political movements as grassroots. They are more closely aligned with the covert cell community organization principle. See Cell church

I removed the above text from the article. This is going to need a lot of documentation if it is going to be read as anything other than some kind of attack or defamation. Also, it belongs in the astroturfing article, not here. -- Beland 23:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite

Grassroots activists want change in the political institutions by non-violent action. Grassroots activists reject hierarchical and ideological organization structures

Not exclusively. You can certainly organize a violent revolution in a grassroots fashion. You can also have grassroots support for a hierarchical structure, like a government agency or institution. You can also have a grassroots campaign in support of the status quo, or in support of capitalism. (And we certainly do have those things in the United States, among conservative voters.) I've corrected the article to take this into account. -- Beland 23:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First and last sentences contradict each other.

Either the term comes from the German, or the English American politican coined it, but not both. --MattShepherd 20:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd guess the English use of the term developed independently from the German. Tafinucane 19:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The intro...

...was practically incoherent. It made it sound like there's one specific policitical movement named Grassroots. It seemed to meander in the very first sentence; while the "individual constituents" of a community might "voice their ideas and opinions" via a grassroots movement, that strikes me as an odd way to lead in describing the term itself. The second sentence, about the word's roots, is not only trivia but contested uncited trivia with no clear relevence to the subject. --Aquillion 22:15, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The list.

I went ahead and moved the list of grassroots organizations that was rapidly forming here to its own article; they were overwhelming the article text. --Aquillion 23:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]