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Techniques for grassroots organizing and lobbying include door-to-door Canvassing , Phone Bank ing, house Parties , Meeting s, postering, talking with pedestrians on the street (often involving informational clipboards), gathering signatures for petitions, setting up information tables, raising money from many small donors for political advertising or campaigns, organizing large demonstrations, asking individuals to submit opinions to media outlets and government officials, and Get Out The Vote activities like reminding people to vote or transporting them to polling places. Faking a grassroots movement is known as Astroturfing , after the name of a popular artificial lawn. In the United States , the first use of the word "grassroots" is thought to have been coined by Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge of Indiana, who declared of the Progressives Party in 1912 that, "This part has come from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of peoples' hard necessities." {Link without Title} REFERENCES EXAMPLES
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