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Immigration Reform
On the Bus for Immigrant Rights: Adiós Rigo!

March 29, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle: SF Gate

View a slide show of the Bus for Immigrant Rights leaving San Francisco for Washington D.C.

Health Care Access
Wanted: Moral leadership for health reform

January 28, 2010, Washington Post, On Faith; Guest Voices

Scripture teaches us that a moral community does what is necessary to protect the lives of each member of society; it makes room at the table of plenty for everyone. It is long past time that we made room at the life-sustaining health care table of plenty for everyone of God's children.

Health Care Access | Economic Security
Church Coalition Asks Moore to Back Healthcare Bill

January 27, 2010, KCUR Kansas

Dennis Moore met in a Kansas City, Kansas church with the group " Communities Creating Opportunity." Two hundred members of at least fifteen Wyandotte and Johnson County churches made a plea for congressional action on jobs and health care.

Health Care Access
Metro Group Prepares for Health Care Battle in U.S. Senate

November 08, 2009, NBC Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Health care reform supporters are celebrating Saturday night's victory in the U.S. House of Representatives, but now the planning begins to win another victory in the U.S. Senate. The Rev. Wallace Hartsfield, Sr., longtime Kansas City, Mo. minister, traveled to Washington with the organization, Communities Creating Opportunities.

Housing Opportunities | Economic Security
People demand action on predatory lending crisis

August 15, 2009, The Catholic Key - Kansas City,MO

Corporate predatory lending practices are strangling both the poor and the middle class, a consortium of community organizing agencies told federal, state and local officials Aug. 1.

Housing Opportunities | Economic Security
Community groups ask for more responsible loans, mortgages

August 01, 2009, Kansas City Star - MO

The American Dream shouldn’t become a nightmare. So said Stevie Wakes, pastor of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kan. He was among several speakers at a Saturday meeting organized by grassroots community groups asking for more responsible loans, mortgages and other financial products.

Housing Opportunities | Economic Security
Ben Bernanke says Fed didn't act quickly enough to stop reckless mortgage lending

July 27, 2009, Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Kansas City, Mo. -- After taking a pounding in Congress over the economic crisis and the multibillion-dollar bailout of ailing financial firms, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke went to Middle America to try to explain the central bank's actions and shore up its bruised image.

Housing Opportunities
Southeast Kansas City reacts to vacant homes

March 16, 2009, KCUR 89.3 FM

Foreclosures have spread throughout the Kansas City metro area over the past six months - into central Lee's Summit, north of Independence, and parts of Johnson County. In Wyandotte County, the foreclosure rate has risen dramatically in the past few months. But the biggest total number of foreclosures are still in the eastern part of Kansas City Missouri, around Swope Parkway, and then southeast in the Hickman Mills and Ruskin Heights areas.

Housing Opportunities
Fighting the banks over home foreclosures

March 11, 2009, Rabble Podcast Network

Kansas City, Missouri has been hit hard by the financial crisis. Mary Rabon is a community organizer in Kansas City who has been working to help people deal with the effects of foreclosures and make it easier for people to keep their homes.

Housing Opportunities
United Methodists join rally against foreclosures

March 10, 2009, United Methodist News Service

As a community organizer in Kansas City, the Rev. Dale Shotts has firsthand experience of the effects of home foreclosures on families and neighborhoods. "People are losing their homes because our nation has made a god of excessive profits, and we have not listened to the voice of real prophets of many faith traditions," declared Shotts, who is director of social justice ministries at St. Luke's United Methodist Church and a leader of "Communities Creating Opportunity" in Kansas City.

Housing Opportunities
Group rallies to prevent home foreclosures

February 24, 2009, KMBC-TV 9 Kansas City

On Tuesday, a group organized by CCO gathered in front of the house to voice their concerns over foreclosures. The group is working for mortgage modifications and changes to the bankruptcy laws across the country. In Missouri, the changes could prevent more than 8,000 foreclosures. The people who live in the neighborhood said it's not just about trash and declining property values, it's about safety.

Housing Opportunities
Wave of home foreclosures ripples beyond urban cores

February 24, 2009, Kansas City Star

Mary Rabon was distressed when her neighbor of 17 years lost his house to foreclosure, and even more upset as trash accumulated on the site. Rabon, who is active in her Tri-Blenheim neighborhood association, gathered Tuesday with about 20 other advocates in front of her neighbor's now-vacant former house to decry the huge toll of foreclosures on neighborhoods. They appealed for city, state and federal help.

Housing Opportunities
Can't or won't pay? Barack Obama’s team wades into a debate over what is driving foreclosures

February 19, 2009, The Economist

Last month Communities Creating Opportunity, a non-profit group in Kansas City, Missouri, invited representatives of Bank of America and Countrywide to negotiate loan modifications with local customers. Damon Daniel, an organiser, says none of the 16 who applied got a write-down, though some might have their mortgages converted from an adjustable to a fixed interest rate.

Housing Opportunities
Let's have some support for property values

November 23, 2008, Kansas City Star

Housing Opportunities
Kansas City CCO presses for national solution to mortgage foreclosure crisis

November 14, 2008, The Catholic Key

Housing Opportunities
Clergy, Faith Leaders Meet About Foreclosures

November 10, 2008, KCTV CBS 5 News Kansas City

Housing Opportunities
Faith-Based Group Helps Fight Foreclosures

November 10, 2008, KSHB NBC News Kansas City

Housing Opportunities
Group Asks Fed To Help Homeowners In Trouble

November 10, 2008, KMBC ABC News Kansas City

Health Care Access
Too many Missourians have no health insurance

April 02, 2008, Kansas City Star

Health Care Access
Groups worry about possible veto of children's health

July 25, 2007, Kansas City Sun

Health Care Access
Groups worry about possible veto of children's health

July 25, 2007, Kansas City Sun

Health Care Access
Group gathers to support wider health coverage

April 16, 2007, Kansas City Star

Neighborhood Revitalization
Northeast Area Tour Pushes for Change

March 25, 2007, Kansas City Star

Health Care Access
Health picture brighter for kids

March 17, 2007, Springfield News-Leader

Civic Participation
K.C. Mayor Candidates Speak Out

March 16, 2007, Catholic Key

Health Care Access
Uninsured Children

March 06, 2007, Kansas City Community News

Health Care Access | Economic Security
Interfaith rally promotes minimum pay hike, tobacco tax

November 03, 2006, The Catholic Key

Neighborhood Revitalization
South KC residents air their grievances

August 25, 2005, Kansas City Star