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Confront Corporate Power Launch
COLUMBIA – Members of Grass Roots Organizing (GRO) and GRO Mizzou gathered outside the downtown Bank of America Thursday to deliver a letter confronting the corporation. Around 15 members showed up to hold signs, chant, and deliver their message before … Continue reading
Get Your Taxes Prepared for FREE!
2012 GRO VITA Site Hrs of Operation Flyer GRO VITA Site 2012 Hours of Operation January 21, 2012 to April 14, 2012 GRO – Grass Roots Organizing Headquarters 304 E. Breckenridge Street, Mexico, Missouri 573-581-9596 Mondays: 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. … Continue reading
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Regency Residents Reign! People before Profit$
Imagine learning in the newspaper or from a friend that the land where your home sits will be sold out from under you and that your family will literally need to pull up stakes and vacate. That’s what happened to … Continue reading
People Before Profits 11th Anniversary!
GRO – Grass Roots Organizing
Eleventh Anniversary
People Before Profit$
5:00 pm – 9:30 pm; Saturday, October 15, 2011
Reception 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Dinner 6:00 pm
Hermitage Hall; Truman Hotel & Conference Center
1510 Jefferson St (just off Hwy 54) Jefferson City, Missouri 65109 Ph: (573) 635-7171
special room rates $53 flat rate payable to GRO
Keynote Speaker: TBD
Jack Lillard Award Recipient—Former MO Senator Wes Shoemyer Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Medicare and Medicaid — and [m]Any More?
This week Medicaid and Medicare will have its 46th birthday. The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed into law on July 30, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson as amendments to existing Social Security legislation. This legislation included the … Continue reading
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Sen. McCaskill joins GRO for D.C. news conference
Yesterday, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, joined us for a news conference at the Dirksen Senate Office Building to discuss Caring Across Generations–Medicaid Matters. Pictured above are, from left– Reverend Raymond Burns from Communities Creating Opportunities (CCO) a PICO affiliate based … Continue reading
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Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security YES! Public Meeting
06.27.11 Flyer 1-pager
Showdown in Ohio!
GRO at the Showdown in Ohio! May 16 & 17 GRO led a crew of 60+ from the Show-Me State to last week’s Showdown in Ohio, which was coordinated by National People’s Action. Activists from across the Midwest and beyond … Continue reading
America Pushes Back
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-bhargava/america-pushes-back_b_854925.html You can see it in the town halls where members of Congress are facing angry constituents who are demanding answers from those who voted to end Medicare. In Missouri, organizers from Grassroots Organizing (GRO) have collected over 700 letters … Continue reading
Tax Day! Make Wall St Pay!
GRO volunteers were able to garner nearly 200 hand written letters within four hours during the tax filing deadline day Monday, April 18, outside the Columbia, MO post office to Senators McCaskill and Blunt. The realization that General Electric may … Continue reading
