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Jaws of Justice Radio investigates how we can achieve justice from a system of laws deeply rooted in economic, social and political inequality.  We want to dispel misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system. We hope you will listen. Host Bev Livingston speaks with her guest, Lora McDonald, Executive Director of Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity, better known as “MORE Squared”.  Lora McDonald has served as a social worker in metropolitan Kansas City for three decades. In her early career, she worked in a Missouri state prison; licensed foster and adoptive families; and served youth who were street homeless. McDonald's career evolved to developing and implementing programs, ranging from crisis intervention with adoptive families to creating community gardens; more recently, McDonald was the architect of the Second Chance Program for people returning from incarceration.  While designing Second Chance, she would organize the Kansas City Metropolitan Reentry Coalition in order to address policies that impeded the success of people with criminal histories.  Around the same time, she was introduced to MORE2 and the National Leadership Training from the Gamaliel Network. She has been Ex. Dir of More² since 2012, and during that time, the organization has won many victories, expanded into Kansas, and sustained a significant ongoing public presence through a myriad of issues. Lora McDonald was the lead organizer who beat back a plan to collapse KCPS for an all-charter school model; she wrote the bill and led statewide organizing to win food stamps for people with drug convictions; and drove the campaign that established the first tenant's rights in Kansas City, Missouri with the passage of Healthy Homes. MORE2 is recognized as one of the leading organizations for police reform in the metro, specifically focused on accountability and transparency in Kansas City, Kansas, and local control of Kansas City Police Department. Bev and Lora will talk about the More² Gubernatorial Forum, Voting Rights for Formerly Incarcerated people and on June 2nd, a Jail Bill of Rights coming up before the legislature in Jackson County for a final vote. Then, Host Keith Brown El will talk with our NEW Host, Justice Johnson, about jails in Jackson County MO and Kansas City MO as we try to keep listeners informed of the changes being made in our local incarceration system. On Jaws of Justice, we examine how to find justice in our society.  Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.    

Reverend Mindy Fugarino discusses her work with the Independence Boulevard Christian Church, and Lora McDonald invites you to on-line Pro-Democracy training February 11, 5-7 PM and February 20, 9-11 AM, organized in part by MORE2. Reverend Mindy  Reverend Mindy is the Senior Pastor for the Independence Boulevard Christian Church on the corner of Independence and Gladstone Avenues in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. That church is a Disciples of Christ congregation that has worshiped at that location since 1905. Her work includes leading The Micah Ministry, which supports unhoused and poor humans1 in Kansas City. Reverend Mindy is also Executive Director of Intersect KC, which shares the church building with several wonderful projects including Care Beyond the Boulevard, recently featured on this show. And she partners with various social-justice & trauma-informed organizations. This includes co-chairing our region's Becoming Beloved Community (anti-racism / pro-reconciliation) team and the Missouri Poor People's Campaign. Lora McDonald Lora McDonald is executive director of the Metropolitan Organization for Racial and Economic Equality, stylized MORE-squared, website MORE2.org. They are part of the Gamaliel Network with headquarters in Chicago. Gamaliel is partnering with 25 other national networks in promoting on-line Pro-Democracy training February 11, 5-7 PM and February 20, 9-11 AM. To register, go to MORE2.org, then click, "Events", then look in the calendar for either February 11 or 20 and click "Pro-Democ" or "Pro-Democracy" on whichever one you would like to attend. NOTE: You have to register to get the Zoom link for the event.  McDonald and Fugarino are interviewed by Spencer Graves. Copyright 2026 , Mindy Fugarino, Lora McDonald, and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license. _______ 1. In the US, corporations are people and money is speech. Corporations seem not inclined to seek the support of Reverend Mindy. She focuses on helping humans.

MCU and other members of the national Gamaliel Network will be meeting in Memphis, TN, April 21-24, for a Get Out The Vote canvassing event ahead of the Tenessee primaries. MCU Executive Director, David Gerth, and MCU Sacred Votes Organizer, DeMarco Davidson tell us how the issues in Memphis are similar to issues in St. Louis. The weekend promises to build national relationships and energize local organizers for the August and November elections.Learn more about the Gamaliel Network at https://gamaliel.org/If you are ready to join us in the work for justice in the St. Louis area, contact us at 314-367-3484 or office@mcustl.comYou can learn more and contribute to Metropolitan Congregations United on our website: mcustlouis.org. Also be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for news and events.

FRIDAY MARCH 6 Today’s guest is Mary Lim-Lampe. Mary is the Executive Director of Genesis, the Bay Area affiliate of the Gamaliel Network in Oakland, California. Mary was blessed by God and the Universe to mother the awesome Mary Caitlyn Rosa Lampe, a brave and mouthy 14 year old. The proud daughter of Chinese immigrants, Mary Lim-Lampe was summoned into organizing during a “perfect storm” at a Gamaliel Network organizer training when a good agitation by her mother was followed by her throwing up and deciding to come out of the shadows and build power. You can follow Mary’s work at www.genesisca.org, on Twitter @GenesisCali, on Instagram @genesis_for_youth, and on Facebook @genesisca.org. HOSTS: Vahisha Hasan, Founder & Exec. Dir. of Movement in Faith, is hosting Resipiscence 2020 on The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast. It's an accompaniment to this year's lenten devotional by the same name. Visit www.transformnetwork.org/podcast. BUY THE DEVO: It's not to late to get your lenten devotional. Print & eBook versions available at https://www.transformnetwork.org/bookstore. 

The Transform Network Podcast, A Progressive Christian Podcast, is hosted by Vahisha Hasan, founder and executive director of Movement in Faith, and Stephen Roach Knight, co-founder and board member of Transform Network. Mary Lim-Lampe is the Executive Director of Genesis, the Bay Area affiliate of the Gamaliel Network. She was called into organizing during a “perfect storm” at a Gamaliel Network organizer training when a good agitation by her mother was followed by her throwing up and making a decision to come out of the shadows and build power in community. She graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (BA-Political Science) and has a juris doctorate from St. Louis University-School of Law. Mary began her work as the community organizer for MORE2 (Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity), the Gamaliel Affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri (her hometown). The biggest reason “why” Mary works in the justice field is her 13 year old daughter, Caitlyn.

Metropolitan Congregations United (MCU)Margaret Davis, Juvenile Justice Chair www.mcustlouis.org(314)651-7574 Metropolitan Congregations United is a community organization that brings together religious congregations, community groups, and individuals to work for a common purpose: to create a better life for all residents. The Ferguson experience continues to crystallize for us the center of our work: the intersection of race, economy, political power, gender and the structures of oppression at work within us individually, within our organizations and within the community of the St. Louis region. MCU strives to be an organization which is the platform for faithful confrontation of the powers, conversion of systems and individuals, and expression of true community of shared self-interest. Each person’s inherent dignity is celebrated by their shared investment in building community, toward a more just and equitable region. As an affiliate of the Gamaliel Network, we have joined our partners around the country to work towards four structural shifts.1. Build people’s control of government2. Build community control of the economy3. Expand the public sphere (for example, public transportation)4. Create structural racial equity

Rev. Nathan is a seventh-generation Michigander, a graduate of Western Michigan University, and a fierce advocate of social justice and benevolent localism. Prior to ministry he worked as a community organizer with the Gamaliel Network in Kalamazoo and Chicago. He attended graduate studies at the Chicago Theological Seminary and Vanderbilt Divinity School. He currently serves as the 29th Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Kalamazoo. He is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).