08/26/19 - Missouri Mondays - 99 years but still fighting for equality and rights are under attack!
August 26 is Women’s Equality Day marking 99 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment extending voting rights to women! It took 72 years of non-violent campaigning to win the right to vote for women and yet the struggle for equality continues in Missouri and in the U.S. where rights are constantly under attack! We hope you will take time to commemorate 99 years of voting rights and also join forces with other great organizations to learn how we can all use our power to
08/19/19 - Missouri Mondays -“Tell Senator Blunt is is time to DO SOMETHING! about gun violence!
Gun violence is an epidemic in Missouri and in our nation yet Senator Roy Blunt, who is Chair of the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations committee, indicated he does NOT support new funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research to “better understand and prevent injury and death as a result of firearm violence.” Roll Call Aug 9 2019 Earlier this year the House passed fiscal 2020 Labor-HHS-Educat
08/12/19 - Missouri Mondays - Keep up the pressure to end gun violence!
“If you want to hunt an animal in Missouri, you must attend a hunter’s safety education course and obtain a license. But recent state legislation has removed any requirements on carrying or using a gun around people. Now anyone 19 or older can legally carry a concealed weapon with no training in Missouri. Doesn’t it make sense for those who want to carry guns around people to do so with proper training?” Kansas City Police Department Chief Rick Smith. KC Star Aug 11 This is
08/05/19 - Missouri Mondays - We must take action and together we will make a difference!
Our hearts are broken over the news of more innocent lives lost to senseless gun violence this weekend in El Paso and Dayton and right here at home in Kansas City. We do not and will not accept this! Let us continue fighting for common sense gun reform, holding our elected officials accountable, and if they do not take action we must help to elect those who will! We also want to say THANK YOU! for calling and for showing up last week at rally’s across Missouri to send the me
