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Showing Up For Racial Justice-Kansas City. We organize white people for racial justice in the KC area
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In an unprecedented authoritarian move, President Trump is working with MO lawmakers to redraw our congressional districts, break up our communities, and silence our voices. Join us on August 20th in Kansas City to get organized to fight back! (1/2)
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Join us for a screening of Banned Together, a film that follows 3 students as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. We will have a panel, lunch, and calls to action. Sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/1wGc...
Check out the trailer here:

youtu.be/1clSuZSPfD8
Details for Banned together screening 12-3:30 on August 30 at West Wyandotte library. Multiracial group of people pictured
August 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Show up on July 10th in community to celebrate and plan our justice work together, now and future! Then find lessons from the authors of this powerful new book, You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take. Bitly onflyer @kairoscenter.org @mojwjva.bsky.social @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social
Black and red flyer with title of book, You only get what you’re organized to take. Thursday July 10th 6 pm at Allen Chapel, 3421 n 29th st. Kansas City KS. Must register at bit.ly/OrganizedToTake
June 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Join us for a documentary screening about kids who fight back against book bans and censorship. Stay for conversation, action steps, and snacks! More info on the film at bannedtogetherdoc.com
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Black and gold flyer that displays promotion of Banned Together film on August 30 from 1-3:30pm at West Wyandotte library. Scan QR to register
June 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Join @airrkc.org for this fascinating and urgent film on how the immigration system “works” in the U.S. $10 donation is requested. 12:45 pm at 606 Gladstone, KCMO. Free nacho bar and drink specials!
June 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Thank you Kansas City for coming out to #TeachTruth day of action to stand up for educators and honest education! @zinnedproject.bsky.social
Speaker wearing a shirt that says Black Love Group of people gathering in a room for Teach Truth day of action Picture with 3 Black children climbing a staircase toward a plant symbolizing freedom and life
June 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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10 days away! Have you signed up yet? Come out to support local educators and learn about the history of resistance and resilience of Black and Indigenous people in our area with a caring community. Enjoy some snacks and don’t forget to bring banned book to exchange @zinnedproject.bsky.social
Teach truth day of action on June 7th from 10am to noon at Roots church 5110 Cedar Street. Bring a banned book to exchange Cornell Ellis is one of our speakers. He is an educator and leads BLOC, which seeks to increase the representation and support of Black male teachers Holly and Kristen Zane are members of Wyandot Nation of Kansas. They are leaders with Freedoms Frontier and will be speaking about abolition in Quindaro Anna Jacobson is an environmental historian speaking about the history of our area with respect to nature and the impact of our colonial past
May 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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10 days away! Have you signed up yet? Come out to support local educators and learn about the history of resistance and resilience of Black and Indigenous people in our area with a caring community. Enjoy some snacks and don’t forget to bring banned book to exchange @zinnedproject.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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May 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Come learn about Black and Indigenous freedom seeking amidst white settler violence in the complex history of the Shawnee Indian Mission. Join us in community for a morning of powerful learning! Meet our speakers below! @zinnedproject.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Power to the workers on #MayDay and everyday! Way to show up KC @mojwjva.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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See you tomorrow (Thursday)at Ilus Park, 4:00! Note that we’re back at the original location! #MayDayStrong @mojwjva.bsky.social
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April 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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New location! Join us at the River Market 4:00 on May Day, May 1st, to Rally together for working people, to stand up against attacks on immigrants and people of color, and to stop the billionaire takeover! #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025 @mojwjva.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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April 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Sign up for the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action on June 7th and stand up for ALL kids and teachers…More details coming!
April 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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www.mobilize.us/surj/event/7...

Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta and right here in KANSAS CITY—working people are rising up. Join SURJ KC and Missouri Jobs With Justice
https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/778076/ Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta and right here in KANSAS CITY—working people are rising up. We are demanding a country that puts our families over their fortunes—public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, housing over homelessness. Musk, Trump and their fellow profiteers are trying to create a race to the bottom—on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself. They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. May Day 2025 we are standing united. We're organizing for a world where every family has housing, healthcare, fair wages, union protection, and safety—regardless of race, zip code, or immigration status. They’re defunding our schools, privatizing public services, attacking unions, and targeting immigrant families with fear and violence. This is a war on working people—and we will not stand down. This May Day, we will turn the page. This is the beginning of a new era—one where working families lead, immigrants are protected, and no one is left behind. This is not charity. This is not a request. We are reclaiming our power from corporate elites, and we will not be intimidated by Trump, Musk, or their billionaire backers. They’ve ruled for too long. Their time is up. STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. WE ARE THE MANY. THEY ARE THE FEW. THIS IS MAY DAY. JOIN US.
April 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM