The Kansas City Black Mamas Bail Out was a great success! Kansas City IWOC is helping build toward making it where people do not go to jail for misdemeanors. Help us with the Kansas City Black Father’s Day Bail Out as we keep building momentum toward bigger change that will improve so many people’s lives!…
KC May Day 2018
KC MO MAY DAY 2018
Dia Internacional de los Trabajadores
Concert – música en vivo
Comida de Food Not Bombs / Comida no Bombas K.C.
Crowdfund – Reale Justice Network Mama’s Day Bail Out Fund
Musical Performances:
- Tyler Gosnell
- Ani Mal
- Evil Pillows
- Cara de Bebe
Speakers:
- Reale Justice (doula & community organizer)
- Keith Brown-El (advocate for the imprisoned)
- Fred Whitehead (radical historian & poet)
May Day Mama’s Day Bailout Benefit Concert
The Kansas City Grassroots Network will be hosting a concert on International Worker’s Day at Revolution Records from 6pm to 11pm. All proceeds will go to The KC Mother’s Day Bailout Fund. There will be food, music, and speakers on various topics from prison abolition to worker’s rights and the history of May Day.…
Noise demo at Jackson County jail 2/8/2018. In solidarity with Russian Prisoners.
several wobs and friends decided to go make some noise outside the county jail last night. People who make a living by putting human beings in cages don’t deserve a good night’s sleep.
…Kansas City Wobblies speak on Franklin County Human Rights Violations
Two of our beloved wobblies were guests on the North Bae Podcast to talk about the Franklin County Tampons Campaign.
A full unofficial transcript is incoming.…
Kansas City J20 First Anniversary – Report Back
The Greater Kansas City IWW tabled at two separate events on the first anniversary of J20.
The first event was the first installment in a series
of talks about racism in America, hosted by the Reale Justice Network. This event focused on the city council’s vote to privatize the streets and sidewalks in the Westport area — a backwards attempt at gun control — and how that relates to the Sun Fresh grocery store boycott which was triggered by occurrences of violence and intimidation against black people perpetrated by police and private security forces at the store.…
Police Violence in Kansas City
The video of cops beating a woman in Kansas City which was featured on SubMedia is just one example of many instances of police violence in Kansas City. If you have video or audio of police violence, we can put your video online anonymously for you.…
Pre-Reading for 2017 IWW Skill Share: Confronting State Repression: Training for Trainers
Skill Share Pre-Reading: Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements
(PDF version) misogynist informants
Some people may have seen this article already, which has been making its rounds on Facebook and the blogosphere, but INCITE!…
Pre-Reading for 2017 IWW Skill Share: My body, my rules: a case for rape and domestic violence survivors becoming workplace organizers
Liberté Locke, a Starbucks Workers Union organizer, writes about how violence at work and in our personal lives are similar, how domestic abusers and bosses use the same techniques of control and that we need to fight both.