The power of small, grassroots movements to make changes that spread beyond their place of origin can be seen with the Slow Food movement, which began in Italy in the 1980s.

从20世纪80年代开始于意大利的慢食运动中，我们可以看出小型草根运动的力量，这些运动的影响可以超越其发源地。

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Publicity has the added power of buoying up participants, bringing in more volunteers, nudging bureaucrats, unhinging politicians, and adding momentum to a grassroots initiative.

宣传具有附加的力量，去唤醒更多的参与者，带来更多的自愿者，触动官僚，赶走政客，并且可以增添基层民众主动性。

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Lee Staples recommends this approach for door-to-door fundraising in his book on grassroots organizing, roots to Power.

Lee Staples建议使用这种方式在挨家挨户筹款的时候，该方式在他的关于基础组织的书中有所提及，《基层的力量》。

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The Tea Party has shown its grassroots power, but from its beginning had an electoral and financial infrastructure and a huge influence on the Republican Party.

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As CNN's Candy Crowley pointed out Monday in an analysis: If Walker sidesteps a recall, it would speak to conservative's grassroots power, the waning power of unions -- which typically ally with Democrats -- and could further Romney's efforts in the state.

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They organize the grassroots political base through a patronage system to maximize the raw power of their Democrat political cause.

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