KC Defender Denounces Nukes

We notice activists branching out into all manner of social justice coverage this week. 

In this missive they take up the cause of local works and advocate against cowtown manufacturing for military defense . . . 

"Most of the people in our city have no awareness that we produce more nuclear weapon components than anywhere else on planet earth, or how much of a target that makes us geo-politically. Most of the workers’ families also do not know. The young Black and brown Kansas Citians who ride the MAX down Troost past the land where the old plant stood ten miles south of downtown Kansas City, whose parents and grandparents’ water has been fed by the aquifer beneath that ground, do not know.

"Kansas City has been a bomb factory for seventy-seven years, and the people most poisoned by it have been its own."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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For seventy-seven years, Kansas City has built most of nearly every American nuclear weapon. On May 7, the federal government will hold a hearing to ask if Kansas City consents to the next chapter.