7:00 pm Thursday, November 3, 2011
Pleasant Green Baptist (340 David L Gray Ln, KCKS)
Come take your ”Place at the Table.”
· MORE2 Leadership will talk to our public officials about jobs, food access, transit, and other issues of our metro area.
· Our work has culminated into our realization that we all should get a “Place at the Table.”
· Listen to stories of people affected by our policies and add your voice to the many.
On August 4, 2011, members of the MORE2 Clergy Caucus met with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II to discuss the “Budget as a Moral Document”. This event was pulled together by allies, Faithful America, who worked with local clergy on Health Care Insurance Reform. Rev. Bob Hill, MORE2 Clergy Caucus Co-Chair, committed Rep. Cleaver to find ways to push business leaders to join the dialogue in finding compromise.
Some of our principles that we believe:
The Federal, State and Local governmental budgets should reflect our values.
We must find ways to push our elected officials to find compromise.
Business leaders in our community have already expressed the desire to work with elected officials to find the “third way”. That this debate must address building revenue through equitable distribution and NOT just about budget cuts.
Rep. Cleaver stated, “I would love to work with MORE2 on this.”
Congratulations MORE2 Clergy Caucus for taking the initiative on continuing this push for our legislators to see that our budget impacts many people that don’t get invited to the table.
Click here for more coverage in the Washington Post: http://wapo.st/qPWofB
As we progress rapidly towards the start of a new school year (August 15th for KCMSD), the MORE2 Education Task Force has been working on building the lines of communications between community groups like us, the teachers and the parents of the district.
To that end, ”Semester Two” of the KCMSD Education & Community Leadership School — which is organized and ran by the community group, KCU4EA — is open for registration. There are only 80 seats available for Semester Two so please reserve your spot quickly.
Semester Two will focus on shared values, building strategic relationships, and using power. Training will be provided by MORE2 Executive Director, Mary Lim-Lampe and Jerry Jones, Community Organizer from Communities Creating Opportunities.
Semester Two will be held on July 30th (8:30-2:00) at MORE2 Member, Linwood United Church, 3151 Olive St., Kansas City, MO, 64109. Thank you to Rev. Tamara Miller and her staff for hosting this powerful event!
Register here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEtIdGZDUy0zdktMNk9zSFlSX2JPOXc6MQ#gid=0
Hope to see you there!