02 Sunday Feb 2020
Posted in Claire McCaskill, social media
“…You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well…”
Facepalm.
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
It’s Missouri you stone cold idiot.
[….]
9:24 PM · Feb 2, 2020
There you go.
21 Tuesday Jan 2020
Posted in Resist
January 21, 2017. 10,000 showed up in Kansas City. That’s the number from several reports. We were there.
You’re out of your element Donnie.
Nope.
From the vantage point of The Link (covered overhead walkway between Crown Center and Union Station).
A woman’s place…
Rise up.
I can’t believe we still have to protest this same shit.
It feels like a lifetime.
Previously:
Women’s March – Kansas City – Washington Square Park – January 21, 2017 (January 21, 2017)
Women’s March – Kansas City – Washington Square Park – January 21, 2017 – part 2 (January 22, 2017)
Women’s March – Kansas City – Washington Square Park – January 21, 2017 – part 3 (January 22, 2017)
19 Sunday Jan 2020
Posted in Resist
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At noon yesterday at Mill Creek Park next to the 47th Street entrance of the Plaza several hundred individuals participated in a rally and march (through the Plaza) in solidarity with hundreds of similar women’s marches across the country advocating for women’s rights and commemorating the movement and the large 2017 nationwide march.
After marching to and through the Plaza the demonstrators returned to Mill Creek Park to rally, chant, and picket along 47th Street. The march was scheduled from noon to 1:00 p.m. – by 1:15 p.m. the park was empty.
“Wanna change the world? Vote!”
“The future is nasty”
“Men of quality do not fear equality”
“Vote for women”
“I’m with her”
“Women 2020…”
Everything I do, I do it with passion. If I gotta be a bitch, I’ma be a bad one.”
“I’ve seen better cabinets at Ikea!”
“I’m only an angry feminist when you’re an ignorant, mysogynist, asshole.”
Previously:
Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 1 (January 18, 2020)
Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 2 (January 18, 2020)
Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 3 (January 19, 2020)
19 Sunday Jan 2020
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Kansas City, missouri, protest, Resist, signs, Women's March
At noon yesterday at Mill Creek Park next to the 47th Street entrance of the Plaza several hundred individuals participated in a rally and march (through the Plaza) in solidarity with hundreds of similar women’s marches across the country advocating for women’s rights and commemorating the movement and the large 2017 nationwide march.
The demonstrators marched from the park toward the Plaza, to Ward Parkway, and trough the Plaza back to the park on 47th Street.
On 47th Street:
“I’m feeling 22 cents underpaid on the dollar”
“Women rising”
“I wish my uterus shot bullets so the government wouldn’t regulate it”
“Stop taxing my body”
“Uterus belongs to…”
“So bad even introverts are here”
“Pro-woman, pro-choice”
“Here’s to strong women…”
Unlike the National Archives:
“If I wanted the government in my womb I’d fuck a senator…”
“American Horror Story – White House”
Previously:
Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 1 (January 18, 2020)
Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 2 (January 18, 2020)
18 Saturday Jan 2020
Posted in Resist
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#resist, Kansas City, missouri, protest, signs, t-shirt, Women's March
At noon today at Mill Creek Park next to the 47t Street entrance of the Plaza several hundred individuals participated in a rally and march (through the Plaza) in solidarity with hundreds of similar women’s marches across the country advocating for women’s rights and commemorating the movement and the large 2017 nationwide march.
After gathering at Mill Creek Park the majority in attendance marched south and then west toward Ward Parkway, turned north, and returned to the park through the Plaza on 47th Street. The march was about a mile in length and took under a half hour.
“Love women”
“Vote”
“Speak Up”
“Break! up with your toxic masculinity. I’m Bored!”
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
Teach your children well:
“Vote for women”
“If it isn’t intersectional it isn’t feminism”
Yelling from traffic on 47th Street at the handful of protesters who didn’t march and remained at the park picketing.
True believer.
There were a few more who joined the group at the park as the march proceeded through the Plaza.
“Women supporting women”
“We are the granddaughters of the witches you were never able to burn”
The host returns:
Previously:
Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 1
18 Saturday Jan 2020
Posted in Resist
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#resist, Kansas City, missouri, protest, signs, t-shirt, Women's March
At noon today at Mill Creek Park next to the 47t Street entrance of the Plaza several hundred individuals participated in a rally and march (through the Plaza) in solidarity with hundreds of similar women’s marches across the country advocating for women’s rights and commemorating the movement and the large 2017 nationwide march.
The crowd was diverse. And they were enthusiastic despite the sub-freezing temperatures and stiff wind.
“Turns out, she was right about everything”
Yes, she is.
“This is my resisting bitch face!”
Carrie Fisher sent me”
#resist
“Stand up. Persist.”
“I need feminism because I plan on marrying rich and I can’t do that if my wife is being paid 75 cents on the dollar”
“I’m with her”
“Equal means equal”
“Feminism includes all genders”
“Fuck tRump, and fuck you for voting for him”
“Respect my existence or expect my resistance”
“Babes against bullshit”
“A woman’s place is in the resistance”
“Does this ass make my country look small?”
Yes.
09 Thursday Jan 2020
Posted in Resist
This evening close to 200 individuals picketed in Kansas City at Mill Creek Park, adjacent to the Plaza, against Donald Trump’s (r) escalation toward war with Iran. The protest rally was organized online (via social media) and sponsored by Indivisible KC.
It was a diverse and vocal crowd.
“We are better than this”
“Peace Now”
“A true peace can only be an unarmed peace”
“No war”
“Dump Trump”
“No more war for profit”
“No war with Iran”
Donald Trump is a bad person.
I did Nazi that coming.
“No War”
“Stop the Donald”
“No more wars…”
“Stop the U.S. War Machine”
“War is not pro-life”
“I respect our military enough not to pawn them”
“Stop the Madness”
“Impeach Trump”
“Stop Trump”
“No War”
“Stop U.S. Wars”
Veterans for Peace
Previously:
No War with Iran Rally – Kansas City – January 4, 2020 (January 4, 2020)
04 Saturday Jan 2020
Posted in Resist
Shouted from a pickup truck in traffic: ‘Trump 2020.’
Response from the picket line: ‘Fuck you.’
From the pickup truck: ‘If you don’t like it, leave.’Wait a minute. How can that last retort make any sense? That’s not how it’s supposed to work. While the minority may possess power, they can’t dictate or control how anyone else chooses to respond to it.
A Fascist in a pickup truck. Go figure. Welcome to America in 2020.
This afternoon around 100 individuals rallied and picketed in Kansas City at Mill Creek Park, adjacent to the Plaza, against Donald Trump’s (r) escalation toward war with Iran.
“Give peace a chance”
“This asshole is going to fuck around and get us all killed”
“Diplomacy, not war, with Iran”
“No more wars. No innocent blood spilled over big oil.”
“The GOP wants WW3”
“Don’t Iraq Iran”
Veterans for Peace
“No to endless war, Yes to peace”
“No war on Iran!”
Previously:
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (December 31, 2019)
Why we can’t have nice things (December 31, 2019)
Oh, shit (January 2, 2020)
WTF? (January 3, 2020)
Sen. Roy Blunt (r): What, me worry? (January 3, 2020)
Mike Pence (r): “…and he assaulted Obi-Wan Kenobi with a light saber…” (January 3, 2020)
Jason Kander – the same story (January 3, 2020)
17 Tuesday Dec 2019
Posted in Resist
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#resist, bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, emoluments, extortion, impeachment, Kansas City, missouri, obstruction, protest, quid pro quo, rally
At 5:00 p.m. this evening close to two hundred individuals gathered in below freezing temperatures to stand in day old snow at Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City – in support of impeaching and removing Donald Trump (r). This was one of over 600 hundred such rallies organized across the country on the eve of the House debate and vote on articles of impeachment for Trump.
“Trump is not above the law.”
Media coverage included at least two Kansas City metro area television stations.
Interview with the metro area ABC affiliate.
“Trust America, not Russia”
“Impeach!”
The Four Horsemen of Impeachment:
“Extortion, Bribery, Obstruction, Emoluments”
“Impeach Trump”
“Putin on the Grift”
“Trump is not above the law”
Interview with the metro area Fox affiliate.
For the most part the reaction from passing traffic into the Plaza shopping area was supportive – consisting mostly of sustained car horns. The occasional Trump dead ender shouted at the protesters. The response from the picket line was a group chant of “lock him up.”
09 Friday Aug 2019
Tags
gun violence, guns, Kansas City, MCC, missouri, NRA, Penn Valley, town hall
“…Raise your hand if you’ve lost a loved one to violence. Just raise your hand. Keep your hand up. Raise your hand if you know someone who’s lost a loved one. Keep your hand up. Look around. Just look around…” [almost everyone in the room of around 250 people had a raised hand]
Wednesday evening on the Penn Valley campus of the Metropolitan Community Colleges Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) hosted a town hall of sorts on gun violence. The community event included elected officials, law enforcement officials, and leaders of community groups.
Damon Daniel, Ad-Hoc Group Against Crime.
Damon Daniel, Ad-Hoc Group Against Crime:
…I think it’s important for us to stop and recognize the fact that you don’t know what people are going through. And when you talk about the issue of violence people are walking around the city, next to you, they’re your neighbors, they’re the folks that wait on you at the cash register, these are the folks that teach in your classroom, these are the students in your classrooms, these are folks at your pharmacy, these are the folks that pull up at the light next to you that are hurting. And as some people say ‘hurt people sometimes hurt people.’ But healed people heal people as well…
…The vision that I have is a vision where people, especially young people can grow up with an understanding of the value of forgiveness. And that they know and understand how to resolve conflict without violence. I have a vision that one day Congress will pass common sense gun legislation that puts people before profits…
Previously:
On Gun Violence – Kansas City – August 7, 2019 (August 8, 2019)
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker (D): On Gun Violence – Kansas City – August 7, 2019 (August 8, 2019)
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): Press Availability – On Gun Violence – Kansas City – August 7, 2019 (August 8, 2019)
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas: On Gun Violence – Kansas City – August 7, 2019 (August 9, 2019)
Judy Sherry: On Gun Violence – Kansas City – August 7, 2019 (August 9, 2019)
Rashid Junaid: On Gun Violence – Kansas City – August 7, 2019 (August 9 2019)
