Today:
Piper For Missouri
[….]
It’s been a busy few weeks, so I figured I should compile a list of things that Missouri’s Republican supermajority has done this session to fight inflation and lower costs for Missouri families:
Yep.
28 Saturday Jan 2023
Posted Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, Missouri Senate, Resist, social media
inToday:
Piper For Missouri
[….]
It’s been a busy few weeks, so I figured I should compile a list of things that Missouri’s Republican supermajority has done this session to fight inflation and lower costs for Missouri families:
Yep.
22 Sunday Jan 2023
Cold, wet, and overcast. Today at noon over fifty individuals gathered at the amphitheater on the campus of the University of Central Missouri for a rally in support of women’s reproductive rights. After hearing speakers the group marched to the Johnson County Courthouse, forming a picket line and chanting to passing traffic. At times those drivers honked in support.
There were several speakers at the rally, including Jessica Piper (D):
Marching from the University to the Johnson County Courthouse:
Fifty years ago:
It’s healthcare:
21 Saturday Jan 2023
Posted Resist
inAt the Women’s March in Kansas City, Missouri in Washington Square Park – January 21, 2017:
January 21, 2017 – from the vantage point of The Link (covered overhead walkway between Crown Center and Union Station).
Previously:
Funeral for Democracy – Warrensburg – January 20, 2017 (January 20, 2017)
Anti-Trump march in Kansas City – January 20, 2017 (January 20, 2017)
Anti-Trump march in Kansas City – January 20, 2017 – part 2 (January 21, 2017)
Anti-Trump march in Kansas City – January 20, 2017 – part 3 – marching (January 21, 2017)
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)
25 Sunday Sep 2022
Posted Resist, social media
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Last night:
Barbara Malmet @B52Malmet
Inflation is temporary. Fascism isn’t.
8:05 PM · Sep 24, 2022
“If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done in Germany in 1932, you’re doing it now.”
Fascism or no. That’s the choice.
Previously:
Trump Muslim ban protest at Kansas City International Airport – January 29, 2017 (January 29, 2017)
I’m not ready to make nice (October 21, 2020)
28 Thursday Jul 2022
Posted Resist, social media
inRead. This. Understand. It. Apply. It.
Pamela Merritt | ACTIVIST @SharkFu
[….] The moderate middle ain’t loyal to anything but their privilege and their money. They’ve voted against their own children’s interests, so odds are they won’t rise to the occasion on our oppression. Stop expecting cats to bark.
8:36 AM · Jul 28, 2022
Pamela Merritt | ACTIVIST @SharkFu
Organize for the crisis we are in, or prepare to lose whether you win the election or not.What we’re not gonna do is sacrifice disabled folk, queer folk, or disabled queer folk to appeal to moderates who’ve failed this country since 1776.
8:36 AM · Jul 28, 2022
Pamela Merritt | ACTIVIST @SharkFu
And allegedly leftist pundits need to find their spine and speak truth or sit down and take notes.The time for moderation and gradualism is long gone.
We have colliding human rights disasters – moderate policy won’t work.
Moderation. Won’t. Work. Organize accordingly. fin
8:36 AM · Jul 28, 2022
There is no such thing as a “moderate.”
Choose.
10 Sunday Jul 2022
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#resist, dumbass, ignoranimus, Kansas City, maroon, meta, missouri, protest, right wingnut, Roe v Wade
What is it with self-righteous right wingnuts and their compulsion to troll?
“…We don’t allow ignorant comments out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we do occasionally present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit…”
We see fit.
We encountered another comment to last night’s post covering a pro-choice demonstration in Kansas City:
Im tried of paying for all your mistakes
And you certainly didn’t pay attention when they covered communication skills in school.
And, as always, when someone submits a comment here their email address and I.P. address are linked to the comment in our site database.
Dumbass.
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)
Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 4 (July 4, 2022)
This is far from over (July 5, 2022)
A brief and ironic judicial history of public protest (July 8, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 9, 2022 (July 9, 2022)
It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person (July 10, 2022)
09 Saturday Jul 2022
Posted Resist
inTags
#resist, abortion, Kansas City, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade
In the past ten days there have been a number of pro-choice demonstrations across Missouri in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s gutting of Roe v Wade and bodily autonomy. The demonstrations continue.
At 5:00 p.m. today around fifty individuals showed up in Mill Creek Park for a pro-choice rally and march through the Plaza.
This is far from over.
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)
Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 4 (July 4, 2022)
This is far from over (July 5, 2022)
A brief and ironic judicial history of public protest (July 8, 2022)
05 Tuesday Jul 2022
Tags
#resist, abortion, meta, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court
In the past five days we’ve covered four different pro-choice demonstrations in Missouri – Sedalia, Jefferson City, Warrensburg, and Kansas City. The smaller demonstrations have been organized at the grassroots level via social media. The weather has been miserable – high humidity and high temperatures. Yet, people show up. That’s what happens when half the country loses their bodily automony on the whim of six right wingnuts.
This is not going away. It’s definitely not over.
I’ve shot close to 2000 frames at these demonstrations.
The image is from the July 3rd demonstration in Jefferson City. The rally had already started. The three individuals were walking on Lafayette toward the federal court building.
One thing we noticed five years ago was that many of our images of protests, demonstrations, and marches taken over the years featured women. It took us a brief second to grapple with the reality that much of the labor in recent activist history has been carried by women. If women are organizing and showing up at demonstrations chances are the images taken at those events are going to be of women.
As is the case with this recent round of pro-choice demonstrations, men attend, but they’re distinctly in the minority.
I suspect there may be different results with other ideologies.
The image may be a harbinger of the future. Confident young women asserting their voices, humanity, and autonomy, accompanied by a supportive friend.
The pro-choice demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Jefferson City at noon on Sunday was well attended. The humidity and heat were oppressive. The original announcement of the event had the location at the Capitol – it was moved to the federal courthouse (ironically, next to the decrepit and deteriorating old state prison) because there were already July 4th events taking place at the Capitol. And it ended up that there was no march to the Capitol (but a “break off” group apparently did make the trek).
Anyone who has attended a protest on a weekend in Jefferson City knows that there will probably be no one else around to witness it. The site at the federal courthouse is one of the most deserted places in Jefferson City on a Sunday afternoon. In this instance there appeared to be about a dozen people at the entrance of the old prison lining up for a tour. That was a “win” of sorts.
I’m not complaining (other than about the heat and humidity) because I knew I’d get some good images to feed the content beast at Show Me Progress.
This image is from the July 4th demonstration in Kansas City. The rally had started and people were still streaming into Mill Creek Park from all corners (depending on where they parked).
This, too, may be another harbinger of the future. Passing the torch to another generation.
This larger demonstration – it was difficult to estimate the size, but definitely more than 1000 – was more centrally organized. Though, again, word was circulated via social media. The Kansas City metro area obviously has a greater population to draw from. There is a difference.
In Kansas City at the beginning of the rally there were two distinct groupings, with individuals easily moving between them. There were those who lined up on the sidewalks facing traffic and engaging passers by and, those listening to speakers in the park. The host merged again later to march through the Plaza (there are spectacular drone images of the march through the streets). As is customary for demonstrations at this location, many of those who cannot march remain on the sidewalks at the edge of the park to picket facing passing traffic.
Again, the heat and humidity was miserable. And people still showed up.
Media and social media do create audiences, but the point of public protest is to inform, and yes, inconvenience and make others aware of your greivances.
From experience – you don’t necessarily need a large crowd to accomplish those communication goals. One individual on a street corner has a powerful impact, though I would point out there is safety in numbers.
One million people in a street protest in Washington, D.C. does have an impact. Fifty or twenty or two people in every town and city in America has a much greater impact. Over a thousand in a public place out in the heat on a holiday works, too.
It takes a lot of courage to put yourself on the line organizing a public protest event under any circumstances. It takes a lot of courage for an individual to take that step in public on their own. It is a start.
No one will listen to your greivances if they’re not put in a position to actually listen. Polite defference to their sensibilities and convenience will get you nowhere. They’ll only notice you if you’re there, persistent, and inconvenient.
You’re supposed to make people uncomfortable with injustice. We all are.
Make it so.
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)
Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 4 (July 4, 2022)
04 Monday Jul 2022
Posted Resist
inTags
#resist, abortion, Kansas City, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court
“Today, staring before 11:00 a.m., in high humidity and with the temperature in the 90s, hundreds of individuals gathered in Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri to rally in support of reproductive rights.
Several hundred lined the sidewalks facing the streets with their picket signs. Hundreds more constantly, also with signs, streamed further into the park for a rally and to hear speakers.
The reaction from passers by was overwhelmingly supportive (this is Kansas City). There was an unending chain of car horns and shouts of solidarity and raised fists from those in the passing cars.
There have been a number of similar demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the past few days.
There were, of course, scores of creative and informative protest signs…”
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)
Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3 (July 4, 2022)
04 Monday Jul 2022
Posted Uncategorized
inTags
#resist, Kansas City, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court
“Today, staring before 11:00 a.m., in high humidity and with the temperature in the 90s, hundreds of individuals gathered in Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri to rally in support of reproductive rights.
Several hundred lined the sidewalks facing the streets with their picket signs. Hundreds more constantly, also with signs, streamed further into the park for a rally and to hear speakers.
The reaction from passers by was overwhelmingly supportive (this is Kansas City). There was an unending chain of car horns and shouts of solidarity and raised fists from those in the passing cars.
There have been a number of similar demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the past few days.
There were, of course, scores of creative and informative protest signs…”
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)
Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)