In the cover story for the last issue of The Nation, GRO - Grass Roots Organizing in Missouri was recognized by author John Nichols for their work with the National People's Action network. From Nichols' story:
MOST VALUABLE GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM: National People's Action
Its activist roots run four decades deep, but National People's Action came into its own after the financial meltdown, when it emerged as the boldest challenger of abuses by big banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies and payday loan operations. With its "Showdown in America" campaign, the network of two dozen state and regional activist groups (including Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Grass Roots Organizing in Missouri and Denver's Rights for All People/Derechos Para Todos) has led the fight to prevent foreclosures on working families by banks that collected billions of federal bailout dollars. Committed to direct action, NPA takes victims of predatory lenders into the suites of corporations that prey on the poor. Unsettled by NPA's cries of "Make Wall Street Pay" and "People Before Profits," Glenn Beck decries it as a "dangerous group." Bill Moyers gets it right when he says NPA's "popular insurgency" is a modern manifestation of populism and renews "a grassroots movement for democracy."
