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It is the intention of Jaws of Justice Radio to investigate how to achieve justice in America, this includes issues of economic injustice, political injustice and the criminal justice system. We want to put a human face on those caught in the grasp of injustice and those that are part of an unjust system. We strive to dispel the misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system.
WE ARE SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT BECAUSE OF ILLNESS KRISTY CHILDS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE SO WE ARE GOING TO REPLAY AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD TRIPP DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF CARE OF POOR PEOPLE WHO PASSED AWAY RECENTLY. WE WILL RESCHEDULE THE CONVERSATION WITH KRISTY SOON.
Kristy Childs, Founder/Director of Veronica’s Voice
In July, 2000, supported by a start-up grant from the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kristy launched a new program of services offered specifically to prostituted persons in Kansas City in honor of Veronica Neverdusky, a victim of commercial sexual exploitation murdered in 1993. It began in Kristy’s dining room. Early services included staffing a 24-hour crisis line with survivors of prostitution to address victims’ needs for urgent care support, and reaching out to women on the streets with peer support and personal items. The effort has expanded, contracted and branched out over time providing services and help as the need it itself changed. Some of the programs they started were a comprehensive restorative justice program, or “Johnz School” to educate buyers on the realities of commercial sexual exploitation, and an alternative sentencing program allowing women charged with prostitution or related crimes to receive diversion from incarceration and intensive probation supervision. 2003 brought the opening of the “Safe Center,” an outreach and recovery center in one of Kansas City’s most well-known areas for crime, prostitution and drugs. Veronica’s Voice received the Northeast Community Betterment Award for its work enhancing the quality of life in the Independence Plaza Neighborhood.
Over the years Veronoica’s Voices efforts have been fought by those who seek to exploit others for their own gain, those who blame the victims for their plight and The Not In My Neighborhood folks that felt that efforts to help victims would just draw the activity into their area. Their latest effort, a residential facility for victims while they transition was opposed in Midtown KCMO but finally has found a home in Kansas City, Kansas. Today host Nancy Leazer talks with Kristy about the journey, the successes and failures and of course the future.
Veronica’s Voice, PO Box 172472, Kansas City, KS 66117
Office: (816) 483-7101 Crisis Line: (816) 728-0004
[email protected]
Website: http://www.veronicasvoice.org/
Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/veronicasvoice/?fref=ts
Jamala Rogers, Human Rights Activist And Author
Jamala will be speaking and signing her book tonight, Monday, March 28, 2016, 6 PM at The Black Archives, 1722 E 17th Terr, KCMO.
Jamala Rogers spent her childhood growing up in a working class neighborhood with her four siblings in Kansas City, MO. She came of political and cultural age during the tumultuous 60’s and became active in the black student movement. She’s been organizing and raising hell ever since. Jamala currently resides in St. Louis, MO where she has devoted all of her adult life to creating a child-centered, family-oriented community–one that embraces, celebrates and protects human rights for all citizens regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation or religion. Because of the persistent barriers to this goal, it has naturally led her to being a leader in the struggle for justice, equality and peace.
Jamala has held and currently holds leadership and membership in several organizations that share her vision for a more just and peaceful world. She is committed to a radical transformation of society where all peoples, especially children, can reach their full potential and prosper. Jamala is a featured columnist for the award-winning St. Louis American newspaper, St. Louis’ largest black weekly and is on the editorial boards of BlackCommentator.com and The Black Scholar. She has authored many articles for both local and national publications on issues that she is passionately involved in. Jamala is the author of The Best of the Way I See It, a compilation of her political writings over the last twenty years. Her latest book is Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion.
Host Keith Brown El welcomes activist and author Jamala Rogers back to Jaws of Justice. They will be talking about her book, Ferguson Is America, Roots of Rebellion that reveals the decades of issues that led up to the demonstrations, anger and violence after the killing of Micheal Brown and failure to indict officer Darin Wilson. Jamala will be speaking and signing her book tonight, Monday, March 28, 2016, 6 PM at The Black Archives, 1722 E 17th Terr, KCMO.
webpage: http://jamalarogers.com/
JoJ Calendar for March 28th 2016
The KC Freedom Project and other supporters will rally in front of the Jackson County Court House, 415 E 12th ST, KCMO. Thursday, March 31st at 10 AM. They are demanding that Jackson County Prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker form a Conviction Integrity Unit and that the case of Keith Carnes and other wrongfully convicted citizens be investigated. KC Freedom Project feels we cannot allow the wrongfully convicted to languish in prison for crimes they did not commit, while the real criminals are still on the street. For more information contact Latahra Smith at 816-456-9776.
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The Kansas City Chapter of Empower Missouri’s First Friday Forum will be Friday, April 1st, 11:30am – 1:00pm at the Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd, KCMO. Empower Missouri works to inform and lobby the Mo Legislature on issues that benefit Missouri Citizens.
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The KC Area Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children and Other Survivors of Homicide will hold their monthly meeting Friday, April 1st , 7:30 PM at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 2552 Gillham Road, KCMO. POMC makes the difference through on-going emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy and providing assistance to all survivors of homicide victims while working to create a world free of murder.
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Momma on a Mission will hold their 2nd annual fundraiser Walk A Mile In My Shoes, Saturday April 2nd at Central Park, 31st and Indiana, KCMO. Registration will be at 9 AM and the walk will begin at 10 AM. For more information call 816-499-1214 or on line at http://mommaonamissioninc.com/
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There will be a Construction Career Fair, Saturday April 2nd at the Robert J Mohart Center, 3200 Wayne Avenue, KCMO. Registration begins at 8:30am and the fair runs from 9 – 11:30am. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate. There will be representatives from over 20 craft union apprenticeship programs available. A severe shortage of trained workers is expected in the Kansas City area in the coming months, take this opportunity to get not just a job, but a career. For more information contact: Frieda Jenkins 816-471-2330 Ext. 1290 or email [email protected] or call or Tony Jones 816-471-2330 Ext. 1206. or email [email protected]
