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Showing posts with label March for our Lives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March for our Lives. Show all posts
Friday, March 30, 2018
Entertainment Overnight -- Hey, What's That Sound?
March For Our Lives, Washington, DC, Kansas City, all over the nation.
Hey, what's that sound? from Paul Howard on Vimeo.
#enoughisenough
Monday, March 26, 2018
In Case You Couldn't Make It Out Saturday to March For Our Lives
Herewith, a few YouTube videos of the presentations at our March For Our Lives rally this past Saturday in Theis Park.
Note on this: I'm told this is Dr. Emily Riegel.
In addition to all this, approximately 6000 people attended the event/rally/march and at least approximately 363 people were registered to vote.
All in all, a big, big day.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
The Next Local Student-Led Weapons Reform Event
From yesterday's very successful March For Our Lives Kansas City event at Theis Park.
We go forward.
The 3 Stated, Official Goals of the March For Our Lives Students and Movement
1. Passing a law to ban the sale of assault weapons like the ones used in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Sandy Hook and, most recently, to kill 17 innocent people and injure more than a dozen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Of the 10 deadliest shootings over the last decade, seven involved the use of assault weapons.
No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only. These guns have no other purpose than to fire as many bullets as possible and indiscriminately kill anything they are pointed at with terrifying speed.
2. Prohibiting the sale of high-capacity magazines such as the ones the shooter at our school—and so many other recent mass shootings used.
States that ban high-capacity magazines have half as many shootings involving three or more victims as states that allow them.
Limiting the number of bullets a gun can discharge at one time will at least force any shooter to stop and reload, giving children a chance to escape.
3. Closing the loophole in our background check law that allows dangerous people who shouldn’t be allowed to purchase firearms to slip through the cracks and buy guns online or at gun shows.
That's it. That's all. It's not long. It's not complicated. It's very doable and people will still have weapons.
March For Our Lives Kansas City Big Success and the Media Coverage It Created
The March For Our Lives event here in Kansas City was a big, big success yesterday. It was exciting and gratifying and really wonderful how many came out and the success of it all.
The Star has a fantastic, brief video of the March For Our Lives Kansas City rally/march that took place yesterday on their site.
March for Our Lives protest in KC
draws thousands
They gave the event some quite good coverage, thankfully. Here's more.
Slain Brookside attorney's widow speaks
at March for Our Lives
Local TV media also gave great coverage.
Not just the Kansas City march alone, either.
Good to great regional and national coverage, too.
There's lots more from the event, pictures, etc., here, too.
It was a terrific day and event.
Now, we go forward.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Kansas Citians on March For Our Lives
Students and other Kansas Citians speak about why March For Our Lives Kansas City, this Saturday, is not just important but very much so and what it's hoped we accomplish.
The Star also ran an article on the students and the march and movement in yesterday's paper.
Meet the students behind Kansas City's
march for tougher gun laws
Be there this Saturday, March 24, noon to 4 pm at Frank A Theis Park, formerly Volker Park, just South of the Nelson-Atkins Museum.
See you there!
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
March For Our Lives Kansas City----This Saturday!!
In coordination with the national March For Our Lives in Washington, DC with the students from Parkland, Florida.
Please come out to rally at Theis Park (formerly Volker Park), just south of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where a full program of speakers and performers will be dishing up plenty of food for thought along with creative artistry. When the program winds down about 3 p.m., those who wish to march will embark on a solemn memorial march to the Plaza and back, remembering the 17 lives taken last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; the 206 lives taken in school shootings since the Columbine High School tragedy in Colorado in 1999; and the 7,000 children killed by gunfire in the United States since the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
We'll have live music while participants are arriving at the rally, and a group of UMKC Conservatory dancers will perform new choreography created for this event. Mayor Sly James will speak at 2 p.m., and you will also hear from some of the determined teenagers from the metro area who have taken a huge role in creating this day of peaceful protest. There will be modern slam-poetry, traditional speeches, and songs both old and new. Local long-time activists and families who have lost loved ones to gun violence will also speak.
For a peaceful, smooth-running event causing as little environmental harm as possible, please observe these best practices.
1. Carpool to the event with friends, family or neighbors. Park in any available UMKC parking lot, then walk a few blocks north to the park. If you have the Lyft app, you can arrange for a free ride courtesy of the Lyft company from your parked car to Theis Park. Disabled or elderly people may park at the Kauffman Gardens parking lot, which will also be the dropoff location for Lyft rides.
2. Bring signs, if you like, promoting reasonable solutions to this horrible problem. Bring a peaceful, reasonable sense of comradery and a healthy respect for our right as Americans to peaceably assemble and demand redress of grievances. Certainly, as a people, we are aggieved.
3. No leaflets or flyers! Please do not pass out leaflets or other items that people would tend to lose track of or leave behind as trash. You can save money and bring a page or two of information you want to share and then ask people to snap a picture of it with their phones to have it for reference, or give your web address to follow up. Don't leave our hard-working volunteers with trash to clean up at the park.
4. Do bring food and drinks, a blanket or camp chair to sit on, a hat or sunglasses, and keep yourself comfortable. We will not be selling anything at the event. Portable toilets will be available, and trash cans will be at hand.
5. There will be sign language interpreters, some designated seating for disabled people and a couple of ADA-compliant port-a-potties.
6. Moms Demand Action volunteers will be staffing the event, wearing bright red T-shirts with their logo, so you should be able to find a staff person if you need to report an issue. Paramedics will be on hand if needed, and police officers will provide security.
7. If you choose to march at the rally's end, you must stay on the sidewalks on the route and cannot block streets or intersections. Megaphones will not be allowed during the march portion, but we can chant.
Please remember, the most powerful thing we can do as a nationwide movement right now is to show up, all across the country, to stand together on this day and to say with one voice, "Never Again!"
See you there!!
Friday, March 9, 2018
The Time Has Come. Our Time Has Come
Yes sir and ma'am. The time has come.
Our time has come.
The time to put people, people's lives, Americans, innocent Americans, at that, as a higher priority than weapons and weapon ownership has come. Is now.
No one's talking eliminating guns in the nation, either.
Not remotely.
We're not proposing doing away with the 2nd Amendment or confiscating all the weapons in the country.
It's just that the taking of, again, innocent American lives must end.
A few simple, obviously necessary, helpful, intelligent regulations of weapons only makes sense. Three that come to mind are:
- Background checks, required, coast to coast, for mental stability and criminal history, for all weapons purchases to finally, finally close the gun show loophole
- Making the maximum number of shots per clip to be 10
- Re-instituting the Assault Weapons Ban
This is no way asking too much. And again, people would still have their weapons if they wish.
It should have ended long ago.
This is a grassroots effort and movement. It's coming from the people. It started with the students and we mustn't let it stop.
Let's do this.
Monday, February 19, 2018
March For Our Lives Kansas City!
If we can't be in Washington, DC, we'll do the next best thing and still have our voices heard.
See you there!
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March for Our LIves Kansas City
Mar 24, 1 PM · Mill Creek Park · Kansas City, MO
March for Our LIves Kansas City
Mar 24, 1 PM · Mill Creek Park · Kansas City, MO
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