Real Change starts with ensuring our government is working for the people.
GETTING BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS ELECTING THE RIGHT LEGISLATURES TO OFFICE IS ACHIEVABLE
Whatever issue brings you to politics - whether it’s climate change or gun violence, student loans or prescription drug prices - there is a reason why our country hasn’t been able to make progress: corruption.
While top-down approaches force behavior changes through policy, bottom-up approaches attempt the opposite: to influence policy through behavior. The appeal of any bottom-up approach is that individual actions can have a massive impact when adopted by large numbers of people, and the barrier to entry is low.
Individual behavior changes— may have a limited impact, but has great potential if adopted by many. The key to effectively activating the potential of a bottom-up approach lies in communicating both the goals of behavioral changes as well as the best strategies for implementing development project to have maximum impact and input.
Our Legisltures are For Sale
Special Interest Groups Spend MILLIONS a year to curry favor with our Legislatures!
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Special Interest
Special Interest groups are any organization of people with policy goals who work within the political process to promote such goals. Groups attempt to influence policy in various ways including: Lobbying government. Organized interests hire representatives to advocate on behalf of the group's interests.
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The Greater Good
A common expression, which refers to the fact that you are doing something that most likely will not benefit you but many people, a community or even the human race according to the context. The expression is often used in political, religious or philosophical contexts.
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Multilingual Functionality
The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in the guise of “grassroots” or “community-based” and are not necessarily tied to any organization. They build organizational or individual capacity and power, establishing themselves comfortably among the top ranks in their hierarchy of oppression as they strive to become the ally “champions” of the most oppressed. While the exploitation of solidarity and support is nothing new, the commodification and exploitation of allyship is a growing trend in the activism industry.​​
Public Interest Groups
Public Interest Group: a) do not usually expect to profit directly from the policy changes they seek and do not directly community-based nor representative thereof but community oriented.
These activists gain financially by attracting donations from individuals and foundations that support their activities, i.e., LCV, NRA; NOW; AARP; Sierra Club; NAACP, along with these foundations pouring monies into the local communities Energy Foundation, New Venture Fund for Global Policy Advocacy.
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Economic Interest Groups
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Public Policy Groups
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Governmental Interest Groups
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Religious Interest Groups
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Rights| Environmental Justice Interest Groups
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Ideological Interest Groups
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Single-issue Interest Groups
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Environmentalisms Green Groups
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Political Action Groups (PAC's)
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This work has nothing to do with local communities self-sustaining community powerng to do with local communities self-sustaining power or determination.
Special Interest and Foundation Grant Funding
Individuals, Groups and Institutions money over people,
not people over politics status pro quo
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Vote Smart, special interest groups are groups of individuals, or organizations that unite to support common concerns and interests.
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The primary purpose of a special interest group is to influence government policies to benefit their group's cause.
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A Special ​Interest group, any association of individuals or organizations, usually formally organized, that, on the basis of one or more shared concerns, attempts to influence public policy in their favour.
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All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes. Their goal could be a policy that exclusively benefits group members or one segment of society, the billionaire grant funders, or corporations (e.g., government subsidies for farmers) or a policy that advances a broader public purpose that may or may not be of a benefit (e.g., improving air quality).
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Prince George's County, corporations building here have a hired lobbyist (millionaire off the backs of the people, at the people's cost, along with hired legal representation and the special interest having self-interest.
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Alsobrooks brought these corporations building here campaign mones back into campaign... Ivery supports. (see
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They achieve their goals by lobbying—that is, by attempting to bring pressure to bear on policy makers to gain policy outcomes in their favour.