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What Trinity Toll Road Backers Didn't Tell Us
In 2007, Dallas voters rendered a judgement on the largest public works project in city history, casting ballots in a referendum that had become a surprisingly close, all-in-battle between grassroots activists and the Dallas business and cultural establishment. The question- should the city's multi-billion plan to transform Dallas' long-neglected riverfront into a massive series of parks, forests, white-water rapids, and other natural wonders be built, as planned, with a $2 billion high-speed toll road running right through it?
Tags: Dallas; 2007; Toll Road; Grassroots Activist
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"Republican Gomorrah"
In this book, Max Blumenthal takes an in-depth look at the Christian Right, and how it took control of the "Republican Party's grassroots base." Blumenthal explains how the Christian Right party is comprised of people "who have experienced profound trauma" and therefore tend toward "rigid religiosity and political authoritarianism."
Tags: Republican Party; Christian Right; authoritarianism; religiosity; right-wing; Council for National Policy; Ralph Reed; Jack Abramoff; Media Matters for America
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Beyond Tolerance: Search for Interfaith
"This book explains that there is a de-centralized, grassroots movement growing among Americans that emphasizes dialogue and cooperative efforts among people of different faith groups. The general shared purpose of these groups is building understanding and respect among people of different faiths at a time in which religious violence is salient in the world."
Tags: religion; faith; tolerance; Niebuhr, Gustav; interfaith
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"The Middle Kingdom's Dilemma" and "China's Pollution Revolution"
In this series, the author investigates "the emergence of a grassroots environmental movement in Communist China." In "The Middle Kingdom's Dilemma," the author reveals a plan by the State Council to divert an amount of water that is greater than the total volume of water from the Yangtze River. In "China's Pollution Revolution," Larson writes about a poluuting factory and its negative impact on nearby residents.
Tags: Communist China; grassroots environmental movement; water shortages; pollution; environmental laws; international
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CR Investigates - Housewrecked
"Increasingly, buyers are discovering that their new dream home has serious defects and that they have more consumer protections for a $20 toaster than for a flawed investment-of-a-lifetime....The story also reported on the largely successful campaign by the National Association of Home Builders to lobby state legislatures for laws that limit the ability of aggrieved homeowners to sue builders over defective houses. It told of the efforts of grassroots organizations of homeowners such as Homeowners Against Defective Dwellings fighting to preserve the right to sue and fighting for laws protecting consumers from shoddy construction."
Tags: real estate; housing; homeowners; residence; housing inspectors
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Grass-roots justice
A profile of Roxbury District Court Judge Gregory L. Philips frames this story about the turn-around of a judicial court. When Philips was appointed, Roxbury District Court was operating with a tarnished image. Philips moved to fix that image, and make one of the most smooth-running courts in the state.
Tags: Justice; Judges; Municipal courts; Gregory Philips
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Dirty tricks in the land of generic drugs
Barron's reports on phony "grassroots" lobbying schemes and other tricks used by the generic drugs industry to push for favorable regulation. The story focuses particularly on manufacturing and approval problems at Andrx Pharmaceuticals.
Tags: prescription drugs; medicine; business; investors; FDA; SEC
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The Puppeteer
Intelligence Report investigates the U.S. anti-immigration movement and related racist groups. The surprise finding: what looks like a grassroots, popular undertaking is actually controlled by one person, a Montana ophthalmologist named John Tanton. The movement is mostly funded by his creation, the nonprofit organization U.S., Inc. The reporters have discovered most of the links within the hate movement by analyzing 990 tax forms.
Tags: nonprofits; business; immigrants; immigration; racism; lobbying; Congress; violence; human rights
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Environment, Inc.
The Bee examines the increasingly corporate nature of environmental groups. It documents six-figure salaries for environmental group executives, million dollar fund-raisers, costly junk-mailings that can be misleading, controversial accounting procedures and the costs behind litigation. It also talks about changes to the environmental movement occurring at the grass-roots level.
Tags: environmental groups; corporations; salaries; junk-mail; fund-raising; litigation
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What's wrong with EPA
Sanjour, former manager of the hazardous-waste office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tells the story of the regulators' "cynicism and contempt for the public interest." EPA disdains environmentalist, and is soft on polluters, the author reveals. He finds that many poor and often minority communities have become sceptical of the agency's ability and desire to help them. The story looks at some groups that have turned into more militant and structured grass-root organizations in order to contest the handling of their concerns.
Tags: community; regulation; hazardous waste; minorities; environmental justice; toxic dumps; Superfund program; Clean Air Act; ombudsmen