Kicking the KOCH HABIT – A conference for activists

Featuring

Nancy MacLean, Duke University

Jason Stanley, Yale University

Jim Hightower, Hell-Raiser

Performances by

Singer, Actor, Recording Artist Danny Cox

Spoken Word Artists and Educators The Recipe

Workshops (subject to change)

Kansas ACLU: Let Kansas Vote! – Dr. Micah Kubic, Executive Director and Melissa Steihler, Field organizer

KC Greens: Bringing Electoral Politics out of the Dark: A Dialogue for our Future – Jo Crain and Steve Mann

Poetry of Resistance – Dr. Fred Whitehead Sharon Eiker, Lucky Garcia, Jose Faus

Greater KC Justice Coalition: United We Stand: Collaborating For Social Change Across Issues and Communities – Ed Kail of More2, Ramon Valdez of Innovative Law Lab and Central American Migrant Caravan, Rev. Rodney Williams of Poor Peoples Campaign, and hopefully March for Our Lives

Missouri CURE: Holding Prosecutors and DA’s Accountable for Mass Incarceration – Rashad Lartey

Johnson and Wyandotte County Voting Coalitions: Taking Down the Koch Goon Squad – Steve Lopes

March Forward KC: Healthcare Policy 101: Medicare for All – Lori Slettehaugh

Military Families Speak Out: Perpetual War and Its Blowback; Everyone Loses – Mary Hladky and Christopher Overfelt

Libertarianism – When We Stop Cooperating – Greg Swartz

Understanding White Working Class Rage – Rev. Tex Sample

Trust Women Foundation: Litmus test candidates and issues: Abortion Rights and Mobilizing Repro Justice Warriors – Julie A. Burkhart

UnKoch My Campus: Un-leveraging Dark Money in Your Backyard – Jasmine Banks and Ralph Wilson

Missouri Jobs with Justice: Building An Economy and Democracy that Work for Everyone: Statewide Campaigns to Raise the Minimum Wage and Get Money Out of Politics – Justin Stein and Paul Washington

Kansas Sierra Club: The Koch Brothers Fight Against the Science of Climate Change – Joe Spease

Heartland Renewable Energy Society: The Climate Emergency: The Case for Immediate Action – Craig Wolfe – 10:00 am

Labor Under Fire: Is it Important? – Katie Phelan

UMKC Economics Club: Nonprofits in the new Gilded Age – Brian Matlock

Kansas ACLU: Safe and Welcoming Kansas City – Alex Martinez

AIRR: The Reflections of White Supremacy in Immigration Law: Past, Present and Future – Diana Martinez, Zac Mueller, Victor Morales

UMKC Economics Club: Neoliberalism: Its Economic Theory and Policies – Matthew Applebury, Tyler Feaver, Laura Gibbon, Sam Stockman

Craig Wolfe’s music duo Soular will be playing sometime on Saturday afternoon.