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Category Archives: Civic Participation
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
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
Pea Pod Writes SS Letter to McCaskill
Tuesday, March 22—Columbia, Missouri GRO – Grass Roots Organizing volunteer canvasser gets a student on MU Campus who’s dressed as a pea pod to collect food for local pantries nearby to stop and do a hand written letter to Senator … Continue reading
GRO Represents at 2011 NPA Conference
NPA groups showed those on and around capitol hill what democracy looks like! Click on the link below… GRO LEADERS MARCHED FORTH TO WASHINGTON DC
GRO Celebrates ACA 1st Birthday!
ACA One Year Anniversary! GRO’s HC Reform 1st Birthday Parties Central Missouri Celebrates Health Care Reform’s 1st Birthday! Cupcakes and Thanks to McCaskill –Less Friendly Visit with Luetkemeyer March 21, 2011 – Columbia, Missouri – GRO – Grass Roots Organizing … Continue reading
GRO 2011 Priorities Meeting
2011 January Priority Setting Mtg Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. GRO Outreach Office 611 N. Garth, Columbia
