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Six years ago

21 Saturday Jan 2023

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At 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)

Four years ago today – women knew

21 Thursday Jan 2021

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Four years ago, in Washington Square Park in Kansas City, Missouri, women knew.

No tactical gear, no tactical helmets, no bear spray, no assault on law enforcement.

There were thousands of people. There were thousands of knitted pink hats.

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Law enforcement had the only noticeable supply of plasticuffs.

Women’s March – Kansas City, Missouri – January 21, 2017

Women knew.

Previously:

Women’s March – Kansas City – Washington Square Park – January 21, 2017 (January 21, 2017)

Rally and March in Columbia, Missouri – January 20, 2018 (January 20, 2018)

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

Four years ago – we knew (January 19, 2021)

“Women hold up the sky…” (January 20, 2021)

@^$# Trump – four years ago today (January 20, 2021)

It took four years (January 20, 2021)

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 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

Posted by Michael Bersin 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

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

18 Saturday Jan 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin 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.

Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 – part 2

21 Monday Jan 2019

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Saturday’s Kansas City Women’s March was centered at Unity Temple on the Plaza – the organizers modifying the march and their earlier rally plans due to the extreme cold weather.

Participants gathered in the Unity Temple lobby before the 2:00 p.m. start of the march. Well over five hundred individuals participated in the march.

The march proceeded through the Plaza to Mill Creek Park and back.

“Intersectional feminism or bust”

“Women are the future”

“Sister, you never walk alone”

“Meta”

“Sisters”

“Hear our voice”

“…expect resistance”

“The only body that needs regulating is the legislative one”

The marchers then returned to Unity Temple for a rally. There were close to a thousand individuals in attendance at the rally.

“Trump is wrong about everything”

“…I can do anything”

“…watch me vote”

Previously:

Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 19, 2019)

Rep. Sharice Davids (D) – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 20, 2019)

Jolie Justus – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 21, 2019)

Alissia Canady – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 21, 2019)

Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019

19 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Kansas City, missouri, Women's March

Today’s Kansas City Women’s March was centered at Unity Temple on the Plaza – the organizers modifying the march and their earlier rally plans due to the extreme cold weather.

Partcipants gathered in the Unity Temple lobby before the 2:00 p.m. start of the march. Well over five hundred individuals participated in the march.

The march proceeded through the Plaza to Mill Creek Park and back.

“We refuse to be second-class”

“Patriarchy is for Dicks”

“You can’t shut us down”

“You reach back”

“I fight like a girl”

“…since the 1960s”

“There can be no human rights without women’s rights”

“Limp Donald”

“Make integrity great again”

The marchers then returned to Unity Temple for a rally. There were close to a thousand individuals in attendance at the rally.

“Impeach…”

That’s not going so well…

15 Sunday Oct 2017

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Bernie Sanders, Women's March

This has been boiling up for a few days. A women’s convention. A keynote speaker. Pushback.

Peter Daou‏ @peterdaou
Lots of snark and humor on the #BernieWomensHistory hashtag, but here’s a very serious assessment of his spotty record on women’s issues.
[….]
7:17 PM – 14 Oct 2017

Bernie Sanders [2016 file photo].

A media release from Emily’s List

EMILY’s List Statement on Bernie Sanders’ Planned Appearance at the Women’s Convention
October 12, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock released the following statement:

“This announcement sends the wrong message to women everywhere. We have reached out to the organizers of the Women’s Convention directly to share our surprise and disappointment, and to offer our help to strengthen the program. We have more women leaders in elected office than ever before, and they are forcibly leading the resistance against Trump and his allies in Congress who are intent on attacking women. EMILY’s List is proud to have supported many of those women every step of the way, and we know that there is a tidal wave of rising stars coming behind them. The choice of Senator Sanders sends the wrong message.”

“Women are already leading in the United States Senate, and this is a moment where we have the opportunity to lift them up. We have to come together as women against the dangerous agenda that Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing.”

EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $500 million to support pro-choice Democratic women candidates – making them one of the most successful political organizations ever. Our grassroots community of over five million members helps Democratic women wage competitive campaigns – and win. We recruit and train candidates, support strong campaigns, research the issues that impact women and families, and turn out women voters. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect 116 women to the House, 23 to the Senate, 12 governors, and over 800 to state and local office. Forty percent of the candidates EMILY’s List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. Since the 2016 election, thousands of women and counting have reached out to us about running for office. To harness this energy, EMILY’s List has launched Run to Win, an unprecedented effort to help more women run and win at the local, state, and national levels.

Oh, I dunno, I seem to recall there are a lot of highly qualified women active in American public policy, public service, and politics these days.

Conservative morality

24 Friday Feb 2017

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Nancy LeTourneau of the Political Animal Blog recently wrote a provocative article on the issue of morality in a pluralistic society. The gist of her argument is that conservative Christians, by making their deal with the devil, i.e. Donald Trump, have not only abrogated their claim to superior morality, but opened the door to a discussion of morality that is more in harmony with liberal pluralistic values. LeTourneau implicitly suggests the existence of a gap between the moral universe inhabited by liberals and that of conservatives. It strikes me that this gap is both more substantive and coarser than LeTourneau in her effort to be fair, suggests.

The difference between the two points of view was clear when the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) revoked an invitation for Breitbart provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, to speak at their annual meeting after tapes surfaced in which he seemed to speak approvingly of pedophilia. Just a few weeks earlier conservatives professed to be horrified when he was similarly disinvited to speak by UC Berkeley. The difference? The Berkeley protestors whose actions precipitated the cancellation of Yiannopoulos talk were disturbed by his “free” exercise of “hate speech, racism, misogyny and transphobia.” CPAC couldn’t handle Yiannopoulos speaking “freely” about sexual practices that they consider especially taboo.

Time and again, it seems that the only behavior that can get conservative morality roiling is sexual. Here in Missouri we have a legislature that is all but openly selling influence when they’re not busy slurping the swill ladled out by lobbyists. But it took a sex scandal – legislators hustling interns – to provoke a backlash and, temporarily at least, lend some force to discussions about the need for ethical oversight. The results were rules governing interns (including a widely ridiculed proposal to keep those young sluts from dressing provocatively – our state legislators, it seems, shouldn’t be expected to resist temptation all on their own), and a few limp efforts to address legislative corruption.

Get the picture? If it involves sex, conservatives get worried about morality. Bullying, vicious slurs directed toward groups that conservatives view askance, along with financial and political corruption, not so much.

It’s no accident that conservative and ostentatiously Christian Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO4) objected to the Women’s march as much because of the signs, which she characterized as “very pornographic,”as anything else. I saw lots of signs about the ACA, Social Security and the full range of economic justice issues. To be fair, I also saw signs that would have shocked my very sedate grandmother. Words like “uterus” and Hartzler’s avowed president, Donald Trump’s, favorite, “pussy,” were visible, along with statements that the organs in question were the property of the women holding the signs, and, consequently, not subject to the control of the patriarchs.

Hartzler had much less to say about the issues that brought all those the men, women and children with the “pornographic” signs out. She doesn’t, for example, give a tinker’s you-know-what about healthcare, an issue that motivated many of the marchers – that’s why she’s voted some fifty or sixty times to repeal the ACA – but she’s worried that people who do care about it showed their concern with what she believes to be pornographic signs. It’s all about sex with these folks.

Even the issue that represents one of the most persistent areas of moral disagreement between conservatives and progressives/liberals, abortion, hinges on differences between the way the two camps respond to female sexual behavior. Despite the hysterical evocation of “baby-killilng” and silly labels like “pre-born,” the relationship between abortion and the fear of unfettered female sexuality is, as Sara Erdreich, argues obvious when one considers the prevalence of arguments about whether or not victims of rape or incest “deserve” to get an abortion, but women whose sexual behavior is voluntary don’t. And don’t get me started on Catholicism, female sexuality, and abortion.

Progressives are frequently advised to frame issues in moral terms if we want them to have wide resonance. However, if our concept of what is morally most important differs so radically from the “other” guy, it leaves us with one simple question: How do we talk about the full spectrum of moral issues – which are often life and death issues – with people whose concept of what can be considered moral or immoral seems to be so limited?

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