Topic: ACLU White T-shirt Protest, Saturday
- Aug 27, 2008 02:15pm by nadia
From:
Lisa Watson
ACLU of Ks and W. Mo.
I am contacting you regarding the first assignment of the Racial Justice Task Force Rapid Response Team.
What: The WHITE T-SHIRT protest.
When: 5-7 pm Sat. Aug. 30, 2008
Plan: Meet at the ACLU ofiice (3601 Main St. KC Mo 64111) at 4pm to pick up signs and instructions.
In response to the growing concerns about Racial Profiling in the Power and Light District, the ACLU will be marching and picketing from the Sprint Center to the Power and Light District. Participants are asked to wear a white T shirt to the march. Each marcher will be asked to write a message to Cordish and the city council on their T shirts.
For example: The City Council gave Cordish $300 million dollars in tax breaks and all I got was this lousy T shirt.
The march will serve several purposes.
1. Inform the public about the specifics of the dress code.
2. Remind Cordish and the city council/mayor about their responsibilities to all the citizens of Kansas City. Millions of dollars in tax breaks have been given to the Cordish Company.
Discrimination and tax breaks are incompatible. A race nuetral dress code is required.
3. Invite the city council and Cordish developers to attend a Town Hall meeting to discuss the issue.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead.
To create a people-powered response to local racial justice issues, individual citizens must be willing to get involved. I hope you can join us for the protest.
Please RSVP to [email protected] if you can be a part of the march and how many people you will be bringing.
ACLU of Ks and W. Mo.
Dick Kurtenbach Racial Justice Task Force
3601 Main St.
Kansas City Mo 64111
www.aclu.org
- Aug 27, 2008 03:00pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb]
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Didnt Eminem lead a similar march at the VMAs ?
(that was me being PHISM)
Badum ching !
- Aug 28, 2008 06:52am by swayzorbladez - www.myspace.com/swayzorspitsbladez
I thought it said wet t-shirt!
oh well
- Aug 28, 2008 01:02pm by Lucidialect
[quote:e024f5fe4f]Didnt Eminem lead a sililar march at the VMAs ?
(that was me being PHISM)
Badum ching ![/quote:e024f5fe4f]
Haha! Don't blame your bad jokes on Phism.
And yeah, I do remember seeing Eminem march with fifty or so other men wearing white t-shirts and sporting bleach blonde hair, which I believe was not a protest of Cordish so much as a gay rights rally.
Good call though.
- Aug 28, 2008 06:18pm by nadia
It would have been nice if the ACLU had staged this when we were talking about it back in, like, June. I bet people would have taken it more seriously. As it is, I don't think even I'll go, unless it's to snap a photo or two.
- Aug 28, 2008 06:20pm by JKR70 - [img:66e766d8cb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/JKR70/LVSIGNATUREBANNER.jpg[/img:66e766d8cb]
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[quote:3be6a051ec="nadia"]It would have been nice if the ACLU had staged this when we were talking about it back in, like, June. I bet people would have taken it more seriously. As it is, I don't think even I'll go, unless it's to snap a photo or two.[/quote:3be6a051ec]
Speaking of photos, didnt you have some photos to send me young lady ?
- Aug 30, 2008 12:17am by MILES - [url]http://www.MilesBonny.com/[/url] Location: KCK
i need to get on that email list.
holler at me
[email protected]
no domo
- Sep 3, 2008 05:23pm by phism
did anybody go to that?
