Grass roots may refer to:
Botanical
*Literally, the
root
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the sur ...
s of
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
Business
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Grass Roots (company), a British company
Film and television
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''Grass Roots'' (TV series), an Australian television series that ran from 2000 and 2003
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''Grassroots'' (TV series), a South African television series that ran from 2019
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''Grass Roots'' (TV movie) a 1992 made-for-television film directed by Jerry London
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''Grass Roots'' (film), an upcoming claymation film based on the ''Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'' comic
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''Grassroots'' (film), a 2012 film
Literary
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''Grass Roots'' (novel), the fourth novel in the ''Will Lee series'' by Stuart Woods
Music
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The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots are an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975. The band was originally the creation of Lou Adler and songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. In their career, they achieved two gold albums, two ...
, a U.S. rock & roll band
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''Grassroots'' (album), a 1994 album by 311
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''Grass Roots'' (Andrew Hill album), 1968
*''Grassroots'', a 1996 EP by
Tricky
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''Grass Roots'' (Atban Klann album)
*''
Grass Roots: The Best of the New Grass Revival'', an album by New Grass Revival
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''Grass Roots'' (Grass Roots album), 2012
*The
Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Started in 1991, the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance is an annual festival held the second-to-last weekend of July in Trumansburg, New York
Trumansburg is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The population ...
, a roots music festival held in Trumansburg, New York
Political
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Grassroots
A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level to effect change at t ...
, a political movement driven "from below" by the fundamental constituents of a community.
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Grassroots democracy
Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes that shift as much decision-making authority as practical to the organization's lowest geographic or social level of organization.
Grassroots organizations can have a var ...
, a political design
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Grassroots (organization)
Grassroots is a political organization in Erie County, New York, which was founded in 1986 by a group of block club leaders, that is known for successful voter registration and elective placements such as Byron Brown in the Buffalo Common Counci ...
, a Western New York political organization
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Grassroots Party
The Grassroots Party was a political third party in the United States established in 1986 to oppose drug prohibition. The party shared many of the progressive values of the Farmer-Labor Party but with an emphasis on cannabis/hemp legalization is ...
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