Sunrise Movement KC

It’s people vs billionaires. Show up and defend your city from the oligarchy.

Email the Port KC board to demand they stop rubber stamping billionaire handouts.

📆Go to smvmt.org/april28 to sign up for the action
📧Go to smvmt.org/rejectgoogle to email the Port KC Board

On top of this, data centers destroy our planet and drive up our utility prices.

We need good schools, transit, housing, jobs, and food for our people.

At a time when Kansas Citians struggle to make ends meet, it is outrageous for PortKC to prioritize lining the pockets of billionaires.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is a tech oligarch lining up behind Trump, supporting authoritarianism so that he and his fellow billionaire cronies can keep getting richer. Tech billionaires like Sundar have enough money to literally buy our democracy – they don’t need another taxpayer handout.

Port KC: Reject Oligarchs, Fund The People! · Sunrise Movement ### PortKC: No Handouts For Billionaires! Oligarchs Out of KC! On April 28th at 2:00 pm, young people and tenants are showing up en masse to Port KC, demanding they reject a $10 billion bond and 25 y...

SIGN UP HERE TO JOIN US AT MONDAY’S PORT KC BOARD MEETING

smvmt.org/april28

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.

Tell City Council to fix their bad deal for bus riders and workers: AMEND Ordinance #250247 On Wednesday, March 26th at the KCATA Board of Commissioners meeting, the transit authority announced that the current level of proposed funding provided by Kansas City City Council in Ordinance #2502...

This is a bogus, sloppy plan that helps no one. But we have power to stop it and demand something better.

Send a new email to the Mayor & City Council demanding they fix this mess before riders and workers have to pay the price!

smvmt.org/fixthismess

As a result of our collective pressure—1000s of emails, hundreds of calls, and direct action—Council & KCATA know that a less frequent, inaccessible bus system is deeply unpopular and harmful to riders.

They claim to have a plan on the table to fully fund buses. They’re lying.

📆 only 7 routes on weekends
⏱️ drastic cuts to frequency
🌜 limited service hours
👷🏾 union job layoffs
♿️ paratransit access impacted

NO WEEKEND SERVICE IS A BUS CUT.
LESS FREQUENCY IS A BUS CUT.
AND BUS CUTS KILL UNION JOBS.

🚨 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.

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

Joint Statement to Mayor Quinton Lucas and KCMO City Council: Reject KCATA Service Cuts and Fully Fund Our Transit Whether we are Black, white, or Brown; East of Troost or West of Troost, North of the river or South of the river, we want our communities to be connected, inclusive and vibrant. As organizations representing thousands of Kansas City residents, we write to express our deep concern about the city's current budget proposal for the Kansas City Area Transit Authority (KCATA). The current budget you are considering will cut 13 major bus routes and up to 175 good-paying union bus driver and maintenance jobs, as well as reducing frequency, operating hours and weekend service.

It will also suspend the IRIS microtransit program and eliminate the jobs of as many as 100 IRIS drivers. Workers, riders, and our environment cannot afford these cuts. These cuts would create a transit crisis in our city at precisely the wrong moment. As we work to build a more equitable Kansas City and prepare for increased visibility during the 2026 World Cup, dismantling our public transportation infrastructure sends the wrong message about our priorities and values. We urge you to keep our public transit system whole by fully funding KCATA’s budget in the upcoming fiscal year and rejecting any and all proposed service cuts for the transit agency as you finalize the City budget this month.

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

Kansas City bus cuts would be 'worst-case scenario' for riders: longer waits and way fewer routes The drastic service cuts proposed by the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to fill a budget hole mean remaining routes will run less frequently and likely get more crowded. Riders and drivers ...

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

Big red text at the top reads: “Save our Transit Rally.” The black text underneath reads: “Rally to save our Transit, our Freedom, our Future.” The white text with a black background underneath reads: “Thursday 3/20 @ 12:45PM.” The black text underneath reads: KCMO City Hall. 414 E 12th St, Kansas City, MO 64106.” There is a picture of workers from a rally to save KC buses. Underneath the picture is text that reads: KCMO City Council is considering cutting nearly half its bus routes, 175 good union transit and 100 IRIS microtransit driver jobs, and ending the IRIS program. Rally with us on the north steps to prevent a crisis for riders, drivers, and all Kansas Citians!” At the bottom are the logos of Stand Up KC, Sunrise Movement KC, Amalgamated Transit Union, and Missouri Workers Center.

📣 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).

Rally to Save Buses + Union Jobs with Sunrise Movement KC · Sunrise Movement ### We want to show the KCMO City Council and Mayor Lucas that we will not back down until they commit to filling the funding gap to prevent devastating losses to routes and jobs. Come rally with us,...

Public health & safety, economic freedom, clean air, and more are all reasons why our elected leaders MUST do right by the people and fund buses.

No layoffs, No route cuts, No longer wait times, No excuses

Go to bit.ly/savekcbuses or the link in our bio to sign up now!!!!!!!!

Kansas City will lose nearly half its bus routes under transit agency's drastic cost-cutting plan According to documents obtained by KCUR, the agency plans to cut nearly half of its routes, drastically reduce weekend service and pare down its operating hours. It will also lay off about 171 workers...

❗️News broke today confirming that half of KC’s bus service will be cut and hundreds of workers laid off if City Council and the Mayor don’t act to fund buses.

The moment is here and it’s time to throw down before we no longer have a bus system to throw down for. 🚍

www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

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!

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‼️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

Jackson County: Save Our Buses! Bus riders and paratransit users in Jackson County are seeing their access to school, jobs, healthcare and housing degrade. Within the last few months, Raytown, Blue Springs and Grandview have decided...

Thousands of people across Jackson County are counting on our elected leaders in the legislature to act in our best interest.

📧Email the legislators now demanding a permanent funding source!! smvmt.org/jacobuses

What we need is permanent funding for buses across Jackson County. The good news is it’s not too late.

Jackson County legislature can put bus funding on the ballot in April before KC is forced to cut service. In order to do this though, the legislature must pass the ballot ordinance by 1/28

Jackson County Legislators refused to use federal COVID money to fill the gap in bus funding. This isn’t the outcome we wanted, but this makes the upcoming month even more important.

Using this federal money to fill the bus system’s funding gap was always going to be a band aid solution.

❕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.

Jackson County: Save Our Buses! Bus riders and paratransit users in Jackson County are seeing their access to school, jobs, healthcare and housing degrade. Within the last few months, Raytown, Blue Springs and Grandview have decided...

They fought for billionaires, but will they fight for the people and better buses?

Email them now to show your support for long term bus funding.

smvmt.org/jacobuses

Regional funding is critical to having a reliable transit system. We need people across Jackson County connected to jobs, healthcare, education and more community resources. Funding buses makes that a reality.