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Bennette Dibben shares reflections on International Women’s Day

PeaceWorks KC March 16, 2022

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.

Momentum in December

PeaceWorks KC December 17, 2020

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

Kansas Poor People’s Campaign demands Medicaid expansion

PeaceWorks KC October 12, 2020

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.

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

PeaceWorks KC June 5, 2020

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.

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

PeaceWorks KC June 4, 2020

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!”

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Bennette Dibben shares reflections on International Women’s Day

Momentum in December

Kansas Poor People’s Campaign demands Medicaid expansion

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

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

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