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Spire, Missouri’s natural gas monopoly, wants to increase utility rates 15% a month, even though the company made a 24% increase in market cap last year reaching a $9 billion valuation. Meanwhile, everyday Missourians struggle to afford rent, groceries, and everyday necessities.
Kansas City’s public transit system is at a breaking point. Without immediate funding, a 33% service cut will strand thousands of workers, students, and families who depend on buses every day.
Join the KC Reparations Coalition for a virtual meeting on October 28th as Dr. Stephen Pinkney exposes the deadly impact of environmental racism on Black communities, and makes an urgent case for including climate in reparations demands.
As Hurricane Milton barrels towards Florida, thousands of incarcerated individuals are left to face a death sentence. With no evacuation plan, Florida's incarcerated are abandoned in the storm’s path.
On Saturday April 20, community organization Sunrise Movement KC held a mass rally on Country Club Plaza to demand Better Buses, limit use of fossil fuels, and an end to genocide.
The expansion of KC's National Security Campus which produces at least 80% of the non-nuclear parts for the US nuclear weapons stockpile raises concerns amidst a global call for nuclear disarmament and a public health crisis.
Despite continued public outcry defending Zero Fare–from in-person testimony and hundreds of emails–KCATA Board of Commissioners chose to continue studying fare implementation.
21-year-old Kashmere Ketterman leads Gen Z activists in a daring occupation of a DC office, declaring, "solve the climate crisis now."
A new three-part series from Contributing Writer, Silas Lee. "With environmental justice being such an important topic amongst youth, it's time to promote an entire systemic change to help fight the climate crisis."
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