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Families Belong Together – Columbia, Missouri – June 30, 2018

01 Sunday Jul 2018

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On Saturday morning approximately 500 individuals attended the Families Belong Together rally and march which started in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri. The event was one of around 700 rallies and marches held across the country yesterday in opposition to Donald Trump’s (r) policies of separating immigrant children from their parents and placing them in concentration camps.

“Caring” – June 30, 2018

“How would you feel…?” – June 30, 2018

“Love resists” – June 30, 2018

Organizers from campaigns and the “No on Propisition A” (opposed to “right to get paid less”) campaign worked the crowd.

“Amnesty is not illegal” – June 30, 2018

“History will remember” – June 30, 2018

The jury is still out on that in Donald Trump’s (r) America.

Reverend Sarah Klaassen, Rock Bridge Christian Church, Columbia, Missouri – June 30, 2018

There were a number of speakers at the rally.

“Families belong together” – June 30, 2018

“Cruelty is not strength” – June 30, 2018

“Resist” – June 30, 2018

And then they marched.

Activism is about showing up, registering to vote, getting the vote out, and voting.

#resist

Previously:

That was so last century (June 30, 2018)

The triumph of privatization (June 30, 2018)

KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees – Kansas City – June 29, 2018

30 Saturday Jun 2018

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Yesterday evening Muslim community and interfaith organizations held a KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees by the J.C. Nichols Fountain at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City. About 150 individuals showed up to demonstrate and to hear speakers including a poet, imams and a rabbi. All spoke of peace, love and justice.

There was a proactive Kansas City Police presence.

“Why should love stop at the borders?” – June 29, 2018

“No Muslim ban” – June 29, 2018

“I really do care. Do you” – June 29, 2018

“Friends and neighbors” – June 29, 2018

“No ban, no wall” – June 29, 2018

“Only love can drive hate out” – June 29, 2018

Poet.

About an hour into the rally a group of right wingnut anti-Muslim counter-protestors showed up. Wearing t-shirts emblazoned with “no immigrants, no Muslims, no refugees.”

The individual on the right is so badass they deserve another photo posting in our blog.

The badass on the right.

It was difficult to get decent images of this group, the good guys kept blocking the direct view with their signs.

Editorial comment.

His editor would cut the first line and the fourth line, then call it truth in advertising.

Diversity fail.

Celebrating diversity – June 29, 2018

It’s quite simple, really, if you single out a religious minority you’re a bigot. That’s it.

#resist

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right

29 Friday Jun 2018

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This evening at the KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees by the J.C. Nichols Fountain at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City – the first of the anti-Muslim counter protesters:

We will only be saved by millions of ordinary people acting every day as individuals with moral courage and heroism.

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

As we are all

29 Friday Jun 2018

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This evening at the KC Rally for Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees by the J.C. Nichols Fountain at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City.

Legalize humanity #heretostay” – June 29, 2018

Our friends and neighbors, #heretostay.

Previously:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

Hey, Sarah, Leni Riefenstahl had to put up with the same kind of “incivility” in 1938

26 Tuesday Jun 2018

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Madera Tribune, Number 24, 30 November 1938
GIRL FRIEND, OF HITLER IS NOT WANTED
Anti-Nazi League Protest to Hollywood Visit of Leni Riefenstahl

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30. Advertisements bought by the Hollywood anti-nazi league today blared in big, black type: “There is no room in Hollywood for Leni Riefenstahl.” Miss Riefenstahl is the darkhaired German actress frequently mentioned as “Hitler’s girl friend.” She is in Hollywood for her first look at the American film studios. Hardly had Miss Riefenstahl settled her bags and given out another interview denying anything beyond a “business relationship” with Adolph Hitler, when the antinazi league went to work. It bought space in the Hollywood trade papers and urged the film colony to give the German actress a cold shoulder. The same kind of snub was given Premier Mussolini’s son, Vittorio, when he visited here last year. Young Mussolini went home abruptly, and reputedly angrily.

Apparently, Leni Riefenstahl and her dining party of twelve were refused service at a “Cabaret”. For being Nazis.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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Mayor Sly James – Cosecha KC Rally to Protect Families – Kansas City, Missouri – June 24, 2018

25 Monday Jun 2018

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Yesterday afternoon over 1,000 people gathered at Mill Creek Park in Kansas City for the Cosecha KC Rally to Protect Families to protest the treatment of asylum seeking immigrants and children by the Trump administration.

Kansas City Mayor Sly James spoke at the rally.

Kansas City Mayor Sly James – June 24, 2018

Mayor Sly James: [….] Good afternoon. [applause] Thank you all for being here to show the rest of the country, and everybody wants to listen and know, that this is how the American people feel . We do not support what’s going on in DC. [cheers, applause] The young lady mentioned that she had a couple of relatives in the Marine Corps. I was in the Marine Corps. None of us put on our uniform in order to see people stopped at our borders and caged and separated from their families. [cheers, applause] That wasn’t what we were ready to fight for. We were fighting for liberty, justice for all. For all. There were no limitations put on the all. It didn’t say all the people who are here. It didn’t say all the people who wanted to be here. It said all. And that has been lost in DC.

This is nothing but politics. We have to stand and fight this because if we don’t at the end of the day it’s not about them, it’s about us. We define what our country is about. [cheers, applause] We are the ones who say what’s right and wrong. We’re the ones who unite families. We’re the ones that care. We’re the ones that live here. These are our neighbors. These are our friends. This is our city. It’s not theirs.

This is not a game. These are children that are being separated from their families. It is traumatizing. It is inhuman. It is immoral. It is wrong. We must stop it. Now. [cheers, applause] [….]

#resist

Previously:

Melania’s claim to fashion immortality (June 24, 2018)

Don’t take away my rights, I’m still using them… (June 24, 2018)

No human being is illegal… (June 24, 2018)

Cosecha KC Rally to Protect Families – Kansas City, Missouri – June 24, 2018 (June 25, 2018)