The Kansas City area contingent of the international Advocates of Silenced Turkey will hold their first rally Saturday, March 6, from 3 to 4 pm, at Mill Creek Park (47th & Main) on the Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
Consequences of uranium mining in the Southwest
Uranium mining waste was recently a hot topic on Radio Active Magazine on KKFI, 90.1 FM Community Radio. On the program, now a podcast, one activist mentioned remaining piles of rock and debris, saying, “When uranium mining came to Navajo Land, we were never told it was unsafe to be around it.”
A Call to Live Nuclear Free
Ron Faust sees the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as coming just in time "to create life and forestall death / To breathe in hope and breathe out a future / For our grandchildren and for all human races."
Remember which elected leaders embraced the election lies
It’s been said that all politics is local. So how did our local politicians represent us in regard to President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud?
Stand Up KC caravan corrals McDonald’s
“What do we want? 15 and a union! When do we want it? Now!” This call echoed across the country, including in Kansas City, Mo. The local group Stand Up KC organized a caravan that corralled a McDonalds where their demands for $15 an hour and a union were presented.
PeaceWorks and Poor People’s Campaign join in KKFI show
A Dec. 31 program on KKFI, 90.1 FM, celebrated the political activism of PeaceWorks-KC and the Poor People's Campaign (PPC), giving reasons for hope. Among the six persons interviewed, Tammy Brown, of the Missouri PPC, says in the podcast, "I was hungry. I was homeless. Somebody told me, 'Cherith Brook feeds.'" She went there for help, began volunteering, and now belongs to the PPC.
Public consciousness can reject corporate domination of politics
We can lay the groundwork for changing American foreign policy and exposing ... corporations as fueling warfare around the world in the name of profit.
Momentum in December
On a Monday the Fourteenth / Vaccine delivered Covid relief / A shot in the arm to stop the spread / and the Electoral College confirmed / The end of a national nightmare
US in crisis: war, pandemic, racism, poverty, climate emergency
It’s time to end the Afghanistan War, bringing all the troops, not some, home now. But not just Afghanistan. ALL US troops across the Middle East, and throughout Africa, where the US has more military bases than in the Middle East, must come home now.
KC KS activists form Mennonite Catholic Worker House of Resilience
The house’s mission: We grow a healthy home by sharing labor and power, knowing our histories, partnering with Creation, and practicing hospitality, response-ability, and place-based peacemaking. Priority will go to local women activists working for systemic social justice in Wyandotte County and providing reparations to women of color in the form of rest and rent relief.