Metropolitan Congregations United(MCU) has issued a statement calling for the resignation of Junior Missouri Senator Josh Hawley. MCU joins hundreds of organizations across the country demanding swift accountability for the instigators of the invasion of the United States Capital on Wednesday, January 6. Continue Reading
Thanks to everyone who turned out for the Dismas House action on December 17. What a great success! Dismas House is a stately cross covered building, full of heartache, disease and violence that doesn’t deserve the $43 million of Federal… Continue Reading
At a virtual rally on Thursday, December 10, MCU’s Juvenile Justice Task Force, the Family Partners leaders and Campaign for Juvenile Justice brought attention to implementation of the Raise the Age Bill. This bill, passed in 2018, raise that age… Continue Reading
Join EXPO-STL for a protest Thursday, December 17, 11:45pm at Dismas House, 5025 Cote Brilliante Ave, 63113. EXPO-STL is Ex-incarcerated People Organizing and they know first-hand the issues faced by people returning to the community after prison. When the Federal government… Continue Reading
On January 1, 2012, Missouri will join 45 other states that have “Raised the Age” of juvenile jurisdiction. In 2018 MCU worked to successfully pass Raise The Age. It changed the law on the age at which a youth is… Continue Reading
Members of EXPO(EX-incarcerated People Organizing) and Our Lives Matter staged a protest in front of the Missouri governor’s mansion on Thursday, October 15. They were drawing attention to Governor Parson’s disregard for the prison population suffering from COVID-19. EXPO members… Continue Reading
Topic: How Housing for ex-incarcerated people effect the community as a whole. Join the discussion as we explore housing as a basic necessity for a stable life. Wednesday, Dec. 9th, 6pm Join Expo-StL on December 9th 6:00 pm as… Continue Reading
Expo ( Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing) and Our Lives Matter has partnered for a Call of Action to address the dehumanizing and inhumane conditions of MDOC. Join us on October 15 to fight for people in MO Department of Corrections who cannot fight for themselves. Continue Reading
In 2018, MCU leaders and others spent months collecting thousands of signatures to get Amendment 1 on the November ballot. It was called “Clean Missouri” for what is was intended to do: clean out the big money out of Missouri politics and clean up the gerrymandering of voting districts. In effect, outlawing gerrymandering. (Gerrymandering creates voting districts that heavily favor a single political party.) And we did it! Amendment 1/Clean Missouri passed with 62% of voters saying loud and clear NO to gerrymandering. Continue Reading
House Bill 12HB/HB12 is replacing Senate Bill 1/SB! SB1 contained such items as deciding the residentcy of St. Louis Metropolitan Police offiers, allowing the Missouri Attorney General to take over cases from the St. Louis Circuit Attorney, and worse….make it… Continue Reading