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.
2017 MidWest Skill Share March 25th & 26th
Kansas City IWW & Friends
2017 MidWest Skill Share
Work | Home | Street | Community | Prison
March 25th & 26th
Contact us at greaterkciww@gmail.com for more info!!
Featuring:
- IWW Do-It-Yourself Workplace Organizing! Learn how to organize your own workplace!!
Shooter of unarmed anti-racist walks free; Authorities silent.
Victim still in Harborview Hospital; Shooter is well-known right wing gun activist.
From the Twin Cities GDC
SEATTLE, WA, January 25, 2017 — Social media activists claim to have identified the person who shot an anti-racist organizer on the University of Washington’s Seattle (UW-Seattle) campus on Friday, January 20, 2017, as a well-known right-wing gun activist attending white nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos’ event with his wife, also a gun activist.…