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And…three years ago

21 Tuesday Jan 2020

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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)

Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 4

19 Sunday Jan 2020

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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)

Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 3

19 Sunday Jan 2020

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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.

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)

Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 2

18 Saturday Jan 2020

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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

Kansas City Women’s March – January 18, 2020 – photos – part 1

18 Saturday Jan 2020

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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.

No War With Iran – Kansas City – January 9, 2020

09 Thursday Jan 2020

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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)

No War with Iran Rally – Kansas City – January 4, 2020

04 Saturday Jan 2020

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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)

Impeach and Remove Rally – Kansas City – December 17, 2019

17 Tuesday Dec 2019

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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.”

Lights for Liberty immigration rally – Washington Square Park, Kansas City, Missouri – July 12, 2019

13 Saturday Jul 2019

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This is America, July 2019.

Americans do not support Trump’s ICE raids
By Marshall Fitz, opinion contributor — 07/13/19 10:00 AM EDT

…Beginning Sunday morning, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), by order of President Trump, will begin a series of cruel, unnecessary raids aimed at rounding up, detaining and deporting thousands of people. Many of those immigrants detained will have had the removal orders against them filed in absentia — meaning they will have never been informed of the orders’ existence.

Among those specifically targeted will be families who had enrolled in the now-terminated Family Case Management Program — an effective, cost-efficient program that saw almost 100 percent compliance rates with immigration hearings and check-ins. Also targeted will be young immigrants who had previously been protected from deportation as unaccompanied minors, but who aged out of such protections when they turned 18.

By devoting resources to inflicting fear and hardship on immigrant communities at a time when children are being denied soap, toothpaste, blankets and other necessities in dangerously overcrowded Border Patrol facilities on the southern border, the administration is making the inhumanity of its policies plain for all to see…

Last night over 500 individuals showed up at Washington Square Park in Kansas City, Missouri for a rally on immigration which was organized as one of the Lights for Liberty demonstrations which were held across the country “to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities across the country and protest human detention camps”. The event, starting at 7:00 p.m., included information tables, postcards to Congress stations, speakers, and a vigil.

Teach your children well:

“Not today Satan”

“Will trade racists for refugees”

Call them what they are:

“Concentration Camps are a disgrace to God and our country”

“Families belong together, vote Trump out”

Teach your children well:

“Diversity makes America great”

“Side with Love”

“Summer Camps, not Concentration Camps”

“Give a damn”

“Reunite the families”

“Legal immigration should not be deadly”

“Close the camps”

Teach your children well:

“People don’t belong in cages”

“End family separation”

At Pershing and Grand:

“Keep families together”

My favorite unposted image of the year – June 30, 2018 – Columbia, Missouri

30 Sunday Dec 2018

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June was a very busy month.

“Solidarity” – June 30, 2018

F 5.0, 1/640, ISO 200, 200 mm.

We shoot hundreds of frames when we cover an event. This image was not included in our original coverage.

Again, I learned online of an organized rally and march on immigration to be held in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri, midday on June 30, 2018. I made the drive to Columbia, arrived early, and found a parking spot north of the courthouse.

It was hot. So much so that early arrivals staked out spots in nearby building shade and under trees on the courthouse grounds.

Did I mention it was hot?

These two women were at the front of the crowd of around five hundred individuals listening and reacting to rally speakers on the courthouse steps.

Previously:

Families Belong Together – Columbia, Missouri – June 30, 2018 (July 1, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 1 (December 28, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 2 (December 28, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 3 (December 28, 2018)

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 4 (December 28, 2018)

Our top ten traffic posts in 2018 (December 29, 2018)

My favorite image of the year – June 22, 2018 – Overland Park, Kansas (December 29, 2018)