Big news! SURJ KC is now Education Equity Collective 🎉 While our name is changing, our commitment remains the same: to fight for unfettered access to equitable public education for all. You can now follow us at @edequitykc.bsky.social 👉Learn more: edequitykc.org/launch

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 In an unprecedented authoritarian move, President Trump is working with MO lawmakers to redraw our congressional districts, break up our communities, and silence our voices. Join us on August 20th in Kansas City to get organized to fight back! (1/2)

Join us for a screening of Banned Together, a film that follows 3 students as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. We will have a panel, lunch, and calls to action. Sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/1wGc... Check out the trailer here: youtu.be/1clSuZSPfD8

"Teachers are powerful. Teachers have vision. Teachers have courage. All the things that this country needs right now is in this room." Thank you @neatoday.bsky.social for inviting me to be the keynote speaker at the Conference on Racial & Social Justice! @translash.org

Need a new queer read? Autostraddle just dropped their list of July’s most anticipated queer books! 📚 Check out the full list here: https://www.autostraddle.com/our-most-anticipated-queer-books-for-july-2025/

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

Wooh FINALLY at my 18th #TeslaTakedown Fuck yah KC Don't fall for the fakeout We're still showing up & showing out to say #FuckMusk #FuckTrump #FuckICE #FDT 8647 #Resist #DOGE #HandsOff #NoKings @teslatakedown.com @tesla-takedown.bsky.social @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social @indivisiblekc.bsky.social

Tomorrow‼️ On Monday, a judge is expected to rule on CoreCivic's motion for reconsideration and the City's motion that CoreCivic must get a permit. Let's show up and show support! 🗓️ Monday, July 7 ⏰ 10 AM 📍601 S. 3rd Street, Leavenworth, Kansas | Leavenworth Justice Center

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

#tdih 2016 Philando Castile was shot to death 💔 by a police officer in suburb of Saint Paul, Minn. at a traffic stop. Castile was known as “Mr. Phil” to students at the elementary school where he was a nutrition supervisor. #BlackLivesMatter #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ph...

My god - Around *100* trans prisoners who were in Iran’s Evin prison are missing after the Israeli strike flattened their section of the prison. 100. The current death toll is 79. The 100 trans people are presumed dead, which would more than double the death toll. archive.is/2025.07.06-2...

Show up on July 10th in community to celebrate and plan our justice work together, now and future! Then find lessons from the authors of this powerful new book, You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take. Bitly onflyer @kairoscenter.org @mojwjva.bsky.social @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social

Bold, anti-racist, working class politics JUST WON in the first round of the New York City mayor’s race. SURJ was proud to endorse Zohran Mamdani– and this is a win for all of us across the country.

Family separation is toxic. An Adverse Childhood Experience that negatively impacts health through adulthood, into old age. When we care about children, we take care of families. These boys should not have to be this brave. Children should not have to beg on TV for the release of their parent.

Join us for a documentary screening about kids who fight back against book bans and censorship. Stay for conversation, action steps, and snacks! More info on the film at bannedtogetherdoc.com @bannedtogetherdoc.bsky.social

Join @airrkc.org for this fascinating and urgent film on how the immigration system “works” in the U.S. $10 donation is requested. 12:45 pm at 606 Gladstone, KCMO. Free nacho bar and drink specials!

Statement on SURJ KC withdrawing support from the Shut Down ICE rally tonight www.facebook.com/share/p/1Afm...

For the #TeachTruth Day of Action, every Lush (bath soaps) store in U.S. installed a display about banned books, featuring "Fry Bread" & a link to learn more at ZEP. If you see the display, snap & share a photo for us. (They also created the display at SXSW: www.zinnedproject.org/news/zep-sxs...)

So many cities are participating in the No Kings Mass protest on June 14th. Find yours! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

🆘BREAKING: The @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship Madleen is UNDER ASSAULT. The Israeli military surrounded the ship, sprayed it with a white irritant substance, jammed communications, boarded the vessel, and kidnapped the 12 volunteers who were about to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

#TeachTruth day of action means deep learning about Black and indigenous resistance and resilience amidst U.S. colonialism and then planning action and solidarity. We go forward with help from our friends @zinnedproject.bsky.social @surjkc.bsky.social

Activists on board the Madleen #FreedomFlotilla have been kidnapped by zionist forces. Their linktree has a few ways to support them. linktr.ee/freedomfloti...

Thank you Kansas City for coming out to #TeachTruth day of action to stand up for educators and honest education! @zinnedproject.bsky.social

An intergenerational movement is defending knowledge that challenges the status quo — on campus and in the streets.

See you there!

Save the date one month from today! No Kings Mass Protest in Topeka, KS at the capitol building. We need our elected officials in Kansas to see a MASSIVE turnout. They keep dismissing us. This is our chance to be seen and heard. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... @indivisible.org #nokingsday

10 days away! Have you signed up yet? Come out to support local educators and learn about the history of resistance and resilience of Black and Indigenous people in our area with a caring community. Enjoy some snacks and don’t forget to bring banned book to exchange @zinnedproject.bsky.social

10 days away! Have you signed up yet? Come out to support local educators and learn about the history of resistance and resilience of Black and Indigenous people in our area with a caring community. Enjoy some snacks and don’t forget to bring banned book to exchange @zinnedproject.bsky.social

I love the Zinn Education Project's #TDIH posts. What is wrong with us, Bluesky? How does @zinnedproject.bsky.social not yet have 10K followers over here?!

Come learn about Black and Indigenous freedom seeking amidst white settler violence in the complex history of the Shawnee Indian Mission. Join us in community for a morning of powerful learning! Meet our speakers below! @zinnedproject.bsky.social

Countless teachers are bravely committed to defending the freedom to learn — & thereby defend democracy & justice — in their classrooms. They can’t do it alone. They need our public support. Make some noise. Host a #TeachTruth Day of Action event, June 7. Add your city to the map. Read how ⬇️

"We need to return the Democratic Party to its roots," said one attendee of Sen. Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy Tour, hoping for a party not beholden to "the corporate interests and the megadonors and the oligarchs." www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

Bernie Sanders: "Saving money by dismantling the Department of Education, which, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional, so that the billionaire class can receive huge tax breaks, is terrible public policy and morally reprehensible." #DontDefundPublicSchools

🎙️ Listen to the latest episode of Apathy is Not an Option: The Battle for Public Education wherever you get your podcasts. Featuring Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Dr. Leah Barlow, Liz Mikitarian, Catherine Lhamon, and YT Bell, the SPLC’s Georgia State Office director. www.splcenter.org/ap...

We are so honored and humbled to win this award, and know the work goes on more urgently than ever. Thank you @neatoday.bsky.social and our partners @mojwjva.bsky.social @surj.bsky.social and more www.nea.org/professional...

Join us the at Teach Truth Teach-In on The Shawnee Manual Labor School/Indian Mission! publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/events/teach...

Power to the workers on #MayDay and everyday! Way to show up KC @mojwjva.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social

See you tomorrow (Thursday)at Ilus Park, 4:00! Note that we’re back at the original location! #MayDayStrong @mojwjva.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social

New location! Join us at the River Market 4:00 on May Day, May 1st, to Rally together for working people, to stand up against attacks on immigrants and people of color, and to stop the billionaire takeover! #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025 @mojwjva.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social

On May 1- unions, immigrant rights groups, and other social movement orgs are hitting the streets in 340+ locations across the country to say: STOP THE BILLIONAIRE AGENDA! FIGHT FOR WORKING PEOPLE! Celebrate May Day with us and find a location near you: maydaystrong.org

Just in: A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting five Missouri college students, including someone who works in Kansas City.

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

If we are serious about opposing fascism is the US, then we must all do our homework about Christian Nationalism URGENTLY

THREAD: This Earth Day, we mourn the Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza and the continued destruction of their land. For the second Earth Day in a row, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.