Sunrise Movement KC

There's been lots of excitement around our launch for Better Buses for KC. But, what is Better Buses for KC? We've spent months speaking with bus riders, impacted leaders, and everyday people about what Kansas City's dream bus system looks like. A system that centers the most impacted community members and fulfills our missions of Climate, Racial and Economic Justice. The fact is, every Kansas Citian deserves a dignified, reliable, safe and green bus system that allows us to access everything we need to thrive in our lives. It is because of this that by 2025, Sunrise Movement KC demands fast, reliable, green, public buses for everyone in Kansas City. Our demands: 1. Every Kansas City resident will live within ten-minute walking distance of a fast, frequent, reliable bus line. 2. Buses will come every 15 minutes and always be on time. 3. Public mass transit will be powered by good, dignified, unionized jobs. 4. Zero Fare forever. 5. All buses will be electrified. 6. All bus stops will be clean, accessible, and provide protection from the elements, with sidewalks, benches, and real-time transit information. ➡️ SIGN THE PETITION: smvmt.org/betterbuses ⬅️ 🌱 Join our Zoom Welcome Call this Wednesday, 9/27 at 6:30! bit.ly/smkcwelcome927 🌅 Can’t make the call? Sign up to be a member! bit.ly/JoinSunriseKC

DON’T LEAVE US IN THE DARK JACKSON COUNTY: FUND BUSES! Take action and email Jackson County Legislature! smvmt.org/jacobuses . The link is in our bio!! We deserve Better Buses! Help us put pressure on Jackson County to create a permanent fund for transit. Currently, Jackson County has zero dedicated funding for transit. We want Jackson County legislators to commit to putting to vote a sales tax to fund our buses. Please email Jackson County legislators at smvmt.org/jacobuses to demand that they fund our buses and guarantee the transportation we deserve! Without additional funding, our buses are set to face major cuts to routes and services. We know that it’s possible—KCMO is scheduled to put to vote an increased sales tax in order to fund a new jail. Tell our legislators that we need Better Buses, not more jails! Our demands are simple: * Every Kansas City resident will live within a ten-minute walking distance of a fast, frequent, reliable bus line.  * Buses will come every 15 minutes and always be on time.  * Public mass transit will be powered by good, dignified, unionized jobs.  * Zero Fare forever.  * All buses will be electrified.  * All bus stops will be clean, accessible, and provide protection from the elements, including benches, sidewalks, and real-time transit information. Join Sunrise Movement KC to become a part of the change that is coming!

🔥🚍 250 of us took to city hall this afternoon to demand what we deserve - fully funded public transit We delivered this message to Mayor Q and city council alongside @atucomms @standupkc , Allied Workers of the Blind & more. When we come together as union workers, bus riders, low-wage workers, students, & more, fighting for our collective futures, we put fear into the politicians & bosses that stand in our way. This fight is not over, but we know when the people stand as one, WE hold the power. 📸 @yaboiboston

We’re two weekends away from the Children’s Peace Parade! Learn about some of our awesome partner organizations and the thoughtful kid-friendly activities they’ve come up with. We’re not only gathering to picnic, play, and parade, but to connect families and kids to the organizations doing the important work in our community! They will all have calls to action and ways you can directly support. Free tickets at momsrage.com/peaceparade. Let’s rock! 🤘🏼

We are currently experiencing the expansion of the police and surveillance state in the name of the World Cup, from an ever-increasing police budget to federal surveillance investment. When cities host large sporting events like the World Cup or the Olympics, the money poured into public “safety” leaves behind an extensive surveillance network and a militarized police force that are used against vulnerable communities. KCPD says: “it’s not just about security for the World Cup. It’s setting a new standard for how major cities use security apparatuses in the future.” We are told this is ‘safety’. Yet safety is not measured in drones, razor wire, or police overtime hours. Safety is measured in whether people have stable housing, whether mental crises are met with care, and whether neighbors know each other by name. Safety is meeting people in crisis with resources and compassion instead of force and punishment. We deserve safety before, during, and after the World Cup. Instead of relying on policing and incarceration, true safety means giving real power and resources to the people and organizations who will actually live with and beyond the consequences of the games: tenants, community-based organizations, and neighborhoods. They bring the relationship-networks and lived experiences that make us safer and more connected than we’ve ever been. If safety is the goal, the question becomes what we invest in–more surveillance and cuffs or care and community that addresses root causes. Safety isn’t built in a month. The World Cup will be temporary. The choices we make will not. ➡️ Read more in our zine, linked in bio!

Welcome back to Global Groove!!! COLORS’ newest offering in partnership with ITLF’s mutual aid night. A night of music for the community by the community ❤️ Global groove is here to celebrate and feature LIVE music in KC while exploring global sounds 🌎 Our goal is to showcase KC’s artists and to support the local community by fundraising for orgs doing important work✊🏾 These sessions are here to platform a wide variety of talent in the spirit of unity and community. You can expect live bands, live synths, vocalists, poets, rappers and producers. Much like Kansas City we want to offer a bit of everything!🎨 Our second installment of Global Groove on 5/28 will feature a wide variety of artists like up and comers Mikey and Rue and Wstprt Radio, collaborations taking the underground by storm with unique blends of improvised production, melodies and lyrical genius. Rithy + Tamper will be on the decks throughout the night keeping the room moving and the night flowing! Last but not least our main event and the reason for the season: KC’s hottest: 7 RINGS!!! TheBabeGabe + Paris Williams + Ty Faizon and Monogram with Sammy Sheets on the beats are coming to TAKE OVER ITLF as our main event!!! Expect KC to be shaking as this collective takes the stage for an unforgettable night! Every GG session at In The Lowest Ferns will partner with ITLF in donating to Mutual Aid. Net proceeds from this event will be donated to Sunrise Movement KC! @sunrisemvmtkc Sunrise is building a movement of young people to end billionaire rule and stop the climate crisis. Sunrise is on a mission to put everyday people back in charge and build a world that works for all of us, now and for generations to come. In the future we will continue to rotate which org we donate to, in an effort to fundraise for as many local orgs that we can. Let’s come together and take care of each other ❤️ Doors/music at 8

“We only get what we are organized to take!” 💪 That’s the call one of our leaders put out on May Day as hundreds of Kansas Citians demanded workers over billionaires. We have the power to change everything, but that requires us to collectively act as a community—to get organized and demand that change! Billionaires, corporations, politicians—they don’t care about us. They are leveraging their power to line their pockets while we suffer the impacts of climate change, while we get exploited and extracted from. But, we care about us! Our communities are the bedrock of the world we can build and shape together, one in which we can thrive and create systems of care, not extraction. So join us! Everyone is needed. It’s time to get organized. ❤️‍🔥

May Day 2026 💥 From supporting a student walkout to hosting a teach in to getting loud at an anti-data center noise demo to coalescing at the mass rally, it was a day full of people power and demanding a world that works for ALL of us! 💪 Thank you to all that showed up in support of these actions and that vision for Kansas City! Need a place to direct all that post May Day energy?? Join us at Sunrise KC to fight for climate, racial, and economic justice ➡️ bit.ly/JoinSunriseKC

Corporations are profiting from data centers while ignoring the harms caused to our communities. So this May Day, we brought the harms to the doorstep of the corporations responsible. Evergy, our region’s main energy supplier, profits off the data centers that wreck our community. Not only that, but they are expanding their fossil fuel reliance in the face of climate crisis! Evergy expects their energy demand to DOUBLE in the next few years—all thanks to data centers. To meet that demand, they are building new gas power plants that will pollute our homes and harm our health. So we got LOUD at Evergy’s front door! Data centers flood our communities with noise pollution that dramatically decreases our quality of life and threaten our health and environment. We are demanding a data center moratorium in Kansas City! We can’t afford development that threatens our health, our planet, and our communities while the rich line their pockets. No more dirty data centers built by billionaires in our backyards! ❌

This May Day, these students walked out of school to demand their neighbors stop being kidnapped by ICE and that billionaires stop building data centers in their back yards. They are demanding a future that isn’t risked by AI and expanded fossil-fuel reliance because of data centers, billionaire greed, and violent immigration enforcement. Young people are done seeing their neighbors kidnapped by ICE, their parents struggle to get by, and their futures risked by self-serving politicians and billionaires. They don’t want to live in a city that gives public money that could be going to education and healthcare to billionaire-owned ballparks and data centers. They are refusing to accept “business as usual.” And today they made their voices heard! Huge shoutout to @moworkers for joining us in rallying around these students today! #workersoverbillionaires #mayday #mayday2026

Are you feeling overwhelmed and fed up? Tired of those in power using their positions for themselves and their rich friends? 😤 Us too! That’s why we are getting together tomorrow for May Day to build power collectively! People power is where the real power is at. 💪 To flex that power, we are striking. ❌No Work, No School, No Shopping!❌ Here are all the other ways & events we are demanding workers over billionaires this May Day: The Bus Will Save Us Teach-In 🚌 Develop a concrete understanding of how transit justice = labor justice = climate justice. When we organize together, we can build a robust bus system, a sustainable economy, and a livable environment for a future we deserve in which we will all thrive. 🗓️ 1:30-3:30pm at Inner Space Yoga, 2711 Troost ➡️ RSVP: bit.ly/transit_labor_economy Anti-Data Center Rally & Noise Demo 🥁 Refuse to stand by while corporations risk our communities for their profits. Demand no more data centers in Kansas City! Bring your own noisemakers and ear protection. 🗓️ 4:30-5:30pm, Oppenstein Park, 1113 Walnut ➡️ RSVP: bit.ly/noise-5-1 May Day Mass Rally 📣 Join dozens of orgs in KC to flex our strength in numbers in this mass rally and march where May Day in KC culminates! 🗓️5:30-7:30pm, Washington Square Park, 100 E Pershing ➡️ RSVP: bit.ly/kcmayday2026 May Day Afterparty 🎉 Celebrate May Day with friends and fellow organizers and enjoy the first ever performance from the KC DSA Labor Choir 🗓️ 7-10pm, Swope Park Bandstand ➡️ RSVP: kcdsa.solidarity.tech/may-day-afterparty

On May Day, International Workers’ Day, students are RISING UP across Missouri and the country! ❌ We are shutting it down with: No Work, No School, No Shopping! Here’s some education on student walkouts and how you can participate in the No School pillar of May Day. Students and young people, we are the future and we need to fight for that future to be healthy and livable for ALL of us! So this May Day, let’s show what’s possible when we come together, get loud, and fight for a Kansas City that works for all of us, no exceptions. Will you commit to joining us for the nationwide day of action on May 1? 📝 Sign your strike card — smvmt.org/strike The information here is from the @moworkers No School mass training, co-facilitated by @kansascitydefender , @decarceratekc , & more! #WorkersOverBillionaires #mayday #mayday2026 #studentprotest