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However, Grass Roots Activism is Slow and Powerful, and can Make a Big Impact.

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Grass roots activism is one of the most time-honored and effective ways to make changes in the United States of America. 

Grass roots activists have changed everything from preventing local trees from being torn down to create a supermarket, to changing government legislature and policies. 

One of the most popular topics where grass roots activists tend to have a lot of success is war, because it’s difficult to get people to believe in war and easy to convince them that war is a bad idea. 

However, grass roots activists also argue for things on a community scale, and this form of activism can be as small as a single person standing up to speak at a local community government meeting. 

One of the underlying tenets of grass roots activism is to build a growing base of support to overwhelm the opposition with sheer numbers. 

Grass roots activists don’t take violent steps to promote their causes, but instead build campaigns upon peaceful resistance and public support against government policies or projects. 

People can use grass roots techniques to change laws, stop commercial projects, protect the environment and ultimately influence the government. 

This form of activism gives every-day Americans a real way to participate in government, and ensure that their voice is heard when it comes to important political issues.

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Activism Can Change the World

Grass roots activism isn’t fast, but it’s powerful. Like an avalanche slowly gaining power and momentum, what starts as a single stone can slowly build into a massive wall of snow and ice packing enough power to level trees and bring down buildings. 

So, too, do grass roots techniques fall; a single voice can begin a campaign that grows large enough to encompass hundreds or thousands of individuals, and create a yell loud enough to be heard even in Washington. 

Grass roots campaigns take time, but they can change the world. 

All it takes is one individual who isn’t afraid to invest the time, and is willing to work to raise awareness of issues and bring more people onboard.

Grass roots campaigns are organic; the more people who know about it, the more people who talk about it, and they grow exponentially once they reach a certain point. 

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Start a Grass Roots Campaign on Your Local Community

Grass roots campaigns typically start small. Your grass roots campaign might be to prevent a developer from turning a local park into a shopping center.

A campaign can start with just a few people, but as you raise awareness, more and more people join the cause. 

All you need is convincing rhetoric, preferably backed by statistics and facts, and even the most humble grass roots campaign can grow to include hundreds of thousands of followers, and stretch across the nation. 

Grass roots activism starts in the local community. You might get together with a few friends over dinner, and talk about an issue that needs to be changed.

From there, raise awareness about the issue in the community, and then talk to local politicians and government figures about the issue. 

With enough support, local politicians will feel the pinch to act on a grass roots campaign or loose the next election.

Once you have a local politician on your side, it’s easy to take the campaign to the next level.

Before you know it, you could have national attention for what started as a local campaign.

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