We deserve a bus system that serves us and doesn't leave anyone behind. KC Bus Riders Union launching soon... 🔜🚌 Follow along @kcbusriders.bsky.social kcbusriders.neocities.org

PORT KC: No Handouts For Billionaires! Oligarchs Out of KC! 🤢 The unelected board of Port KC is set to vote THIS MONDAY on a $10 billion bond and 25 year property tax handout for Google in order to build another data center in the area.

This is straight out to the authoritarian playbook: silence dissent by making people scared to speak up. The Democratic Party should be fighting like hell against these illegal actions by the Trump admin.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 KCMO & KCATA Leaders think they can play bus riders and workers for fools 😡 KCMO transit funding ordinance #250247 DOESN’T FULLY FUND BUSES. KCATA announces drastic FREQUENCY, SERVICE REDUCTIONS AND LAYOFFS EVEN UNDER PROPOSED 6-MONTH FUNDING PLAN. (1/4)

🔊 ERICA FLORES FROM @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social TAKES THE MIC

Our joint statement calling on Mayor Lucas and City Council to reject KCATA service cuts and fully fund our transit. #SaveOurTransit #MOworkers #DrivingChange #StandUpKC #1u #UnionsForAll

Robust and reliable public transit is critical for the Kansas City area, our Local 1287 members demand the City invest in the KCATA. #ATUStrongerTogether #1u www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

You can say routes will be saved but if the money isn’t there, the cuts will happen. If not the routes, it will be longer wait times. Just b/c this wasn’t public until recently doesn’t mean city public works havnt been collaborating w/ kcata for months on plans to gut service

$6.8m is a start but not nearly enough to actually stop the service cuts and worker layoffs We hope to see more movement on this before the budget is finalized Join us tomorrow at city hall to make sure elected leaders back up statements with action bit.ly/savekcbuses

📣 Rally with us, @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social, and @atucomms.bsky.social to save our Transit, our Freedom, and our Future! 12:30PM on 3/20 at KCMO City Council (414 E 12th St).

ALL ABOARD, KANSAS CITY📢📢📢 Join us alongside @atucomms.bsky.social and @moworkers.org to fight for our buses next thursday at city hall! Show up at 12:45, rally starts at 1. We will pack city hall chambers after as council approves the final city budget. 💪

Shout out to the friends and comrades @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social who are fiercely making the public case for regional transit funding. Kansas City-area residents deserve robust and reliable buses, but instead the people with the power to act seem content to let our transit system wither away.

@sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social leader Alexandria Paul is speaking now

💥BREAKING💥 Bus riders and union bus drivers with @atucomms.bsky.social, @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social, and low-wage workers with Stand Up KC are rallying RIGHT NOW outside KCATA’s HQ to demand the city reject cuts to bus routes and union jobs!

‼️CORRECTION/UPDATE: Jax County met again yesterday in a special session where they rejected Monday’s ordinance allocating a large portion of ARPA funds to pay county contracts. Tuesday they passed ordinances allocating nearly all ARPA funds subject to veto by Frank White jr

❕UPDATE: Jackson County legislature approves federal ARPA funds to be used for county worker salaries, opening up $70 mil within the county’s general fund.

We showed up to Jackson County Legislature’s Special Public Session last night to urge elected officials act to save the county’s bus system. They have $70 million in federal COVID money that still needs to be allocated by the end of the year or else it will be lost. 🧵(1/5)

DON’T LEAVE US IN THE DARK JACKSON COUNTY: FUND BUSES! Take action and email Jackson County Legislature! smvmt.org/jacobuses 🧵(1/4)

Wednesday, 60+ people attended our Mass Meeting. We shared our fears, anger, and anxiety. But we have hope. We grounded ourselves in the power we have as young people to defy fascism and win climate, racial, and economic justice.