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Our Mission is to promote civic awareness through community engagement for peace and social justice. Grassroots America started as Grassroots Missouri.In southern Missouri when minorities tried to run for office, the democrats and republicans would work together in the primaries to get them out of the race. Grassroots America wanted to change the dynamics from the grassroots by getting leaders in the minority areas to confront their mayors, get involved on central committees, run for local office and organize voter registration drives in minority areas.

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  • Our Mission is to promote civic awareness through community engagement for peace and social justice. Grassroots America started as Grassroots Missouri.In southern Missouri when minorities tried to run for office, the democrats and republicans would work together in the primaries to get them out of the race. Grassroots America wanted to change the dynamics from the grassroots by getting leaders in the minority areas to confront their mayors, get involved on central committees, run for local office and organize voter registration drives in minority areas.
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  • Our Mission is to promote civic awareness through community engagement for peace and social justice. Grassroots America started as Grassroots Missouri.In southern Missouri when minorities tried to run for office, the democrats and republicans would work together in the primaries to get them out of the race. Grassroots America wanted to change the dynamics from the grassroots by getting leaders in the minority areas to confront their mayors, get involved on central committees, run for local office and organize voter registration drives in minority areas. When was your organization established and by whom? It was established in 2006 by Tina Richards. What are your main activities? Main activities are to get people involved in their government. Democracy can only happen when people participate. We organize marches, put out call-to-actions to people to contact their representative, interview senators and congress people and send it back to their districts so they can see what they are doing. We organize with organizers to step up the peace and social justice community. We are currently working with Iraq Vets Against the War, Hip-Hop Caucus, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans for Peace, ANSWER, UFPJ, USLAW and many other organizations. Ther following agenda for GRA: End the Occupation of Iraq Ensure our veterans are taken care of when they return. Katrina Victims are returned back to their home Organize and empower minority leaders End the segregation in the South Grassroots America works with various legislatures to draft legislation to address issues of PTSD, Homeless Veterans, Traumatic Brain Injury, Rural Area Care and many other issues for our veterans. With the recent Brown Vs. Board of Education being weakened by the Supreme Court, we will soon be turning back to the south to help organize and empower the towns that still live with segregation everyday. A place where the civil rights movement haven't reached yet.
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