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Bennette Dibben has fun after getting her face painted almost 10 years ago.—Photos courtesy of Bennette Dibben

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 PeaceWorks KC Nonviolence

Bennette Dibben shares reflections on International Women’s Day

Her own life story, political upheavals, and personal hygiene products for school girls were on Bennette Dibben’s mind as she spoke at a rally March 12.

Ron Faust, in this 2017 photo, protests the making of parts for nuclear weapons in KC. Given Coronavirus, PeaceWorks did not convene such gatherings in 2020, and Ron poured his views into his poetry.--Photo by Jim Hannah

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 PeaceWorks KC Nonviolence

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

Kristin Scheer (left of center) reads a statement by Ginger Ferguson, who lost her health insurance right before the COVID crisis struck. Ferguson, 60, too ill to attend the Sept. 29 march and rally, wrote, “It shouldn't be this hard. I started paying into this system when I was 14.” At the right in the photo is Charles Carney.—Photo by Ann Suellentrop

October 12, 2020 PeaceWorks KC Economic justice

Kansas Poor People’s Campaign demands Medicaid expansion

Dennis Russell said he gave his right eye so rich people in Kansas could become a little richer. On the night of Sept. 29, when 55 persons, including four PeaceWorks-KC leaders, marched for expanded Medicaid in Kansas, the 60-year-old Russell said he could not get the glaucoma in his right eye treated for years because he did not have health insurance. Now that he has recently obtained Kansas Medicaid, his eye doctor is telling him it is too late to repair the sight in his right eye, and he will probably never see again out of that eye.

June 5, 2020July 31, 2020 PeaceWorks KC Death penalty, Economic justice, Incarceration, Nuclear weapons, PeaceWorks events

Videos give glimpse of Memorial Day action, ‘Human Care, Not Warfare’

CARE-a-vans and speakers combined on Memorial Day in Kansas City, Mo., with this focus: “Human Care, Not Warfare.” Videos share the impact of speaker after speaker calling for a pandemic pivot from war and weapons to care for humanity and our home, our planet.

Cris Mann, a recently retired special-education teacher, urges, “We should cancel college debt and eliminate the warfare budgets.” She led a chant: “Books, not bombs!”--Photos by Jim Hannah

June 4, 2020June 16, 2020 PeaceWorks KC Death penalty, Ecology, Economic justice, Nonviolence, Nuclear weapons

‘Human Care, Not Warfare’ makes it to the media

KKFI Community Radio (90.1 FM) and NBC Action News (Channel 41) covered the May 25 “Human Care, Not Warfare” midtown rally. Among 12 speakers, Cris Mann urged, “We should cancel college debt and eliminate the warfare budgets.” She led a chant: “Books, not bombs!”