Boots on the Ground Midwest
@bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social
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Grassroots economic, social, and racial justice in the Heartland
Grassroots economic, social, and racial justice in the Heartland
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Over the last 3 months, Home Depot’s and Spotify’s stocks have plummeted by 20%. This is what we, the people, will do to any company that sides with Trump’s fascist regime.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Over the last 3 months, Home Depot’s and Spotify’s stocks have plummeted by 20%. This is what we, the people, will do to any company that sides with Trump’s fascist regime.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
Target ❌
Disney ❌
Spotify ❌
Home Depot ❌
Amazon, you’re next. Learn how to take these companies down at weaintbuyingit.com.
We’re helping raise $100,000 for the AIRR KC Legal Fund. It gives KC immigrants facing deportation a fighting chance at keeping their families together. Give what you can and please share, especially this week leading up to Giving Tuesday. 💙
#JusticeCantWaitKC
airrkc.org/legal-fund
#JusticeCantWaitKC
airrkc.org/legal-fund
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We’re helping raise $100,000 for the AIRR KC Legal Fund. It gives KC immigrants facing deportation a fighting chance at keeping their families together. Give what you can and please share, especially this week leading up to Giving Tuesday. 💙
#JusticeCantWaitKC
airrkc.org/legal-fund
#JusticeCantWaitKC
airrkc.org/legal-fund
Learn how to be an effective ICE witness by attending the Know Your Rights training on Tuesday, December 2nd, from 7-9pm.
Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Learn how to be an effective ICE witness by attending the Know Your Rights training on Tuesday, December 2nd, from 7-9pm.
Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Kansas City Bookstore Crawl is this weekend!! 📚
Each day this week, we will be posting an event that makes it easy to shop small and local. 💙🌻💙
Kansas City Bookstore Crawl — Nov. 28-30th
Visit >50% of the participating bookstores and gain entry into the Silent Book Club + Awards show.
✨📚✨
Find more info here:
kcbooksellers.org/bookstorecrawl
Kansas City Bookstore Crawl — Nov. 28-30th
Visit >50% of the participating bookstores and gain entry into the Silent Book Club + Awards show.
✨📚✨
Find more info here:
kcbooksellers.org/bookstorecrawl
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Kansas City Bookstore Crawl is this weekend!! 📚
Stop by Virgil’s Plant Shop this Saturday from 11am-6pm! 🪴🍸
Each day this week, we will be posting an event that makes it easy to shop small and local. 💙🌻💙
On Small Business Saturday, attend the holiday party at Virgil’s Plant Shop from 11am-6pm. There will be drinks, shopping, even tattoos! 🪴🍸
More info here:
www.virgilsplantshop.com/event-detail...
On Small Business Saturday, attend the holiday party at Virgil’s Plant Shop from 11am-6pm. There will be drinks, shopping, even tattoos! 🪴🍸
More info here:
www.virgilsplantshop.com/event-detail...
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Stop by Virgil’s Plant Shop this Saturday from 11am-6pm! 🪴🍸
The first weekend of Strawberry Swing’s 15th Annual Holiday Swing is this week at the Alexander Majors Barn and Grounds!
Boycott big businesses and shop local this holiday season. 🍓
Boycott big businesses and shop local this holiday season. 🍓
Each day this week, we will be posting an event that makes it easy to shop small and local. 💙🌻💙
Celebrate 15 years of holiday magic and shop at The Strawberry Swing‘s Holiday Swing, a European-style market taking place over two weekends at two separate locations. ✨
www.thestrawberryswing.com
Celebrate 15 years of holiday magic and shop at The Strawberry Swing‘s Holiday Swing, a European-style market taking place over two weekends at two separate locations. ✨
www.thestrawberryswing.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The first weekend of Strawberry Swing’s 15th Annual Holiday Swing is this week at the Alexander Majors Barn and Grounds!
Boycott big businesses and shop local this holiday season. 🍓
Boycott big businesses and shop local this holiday season. 🍓
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Starbucks workers are still out on ULP strike! Support us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere until the strike is resolved!! We’re fighting for fair union contracts with better pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting - learn more at the link in our bio! #tobeapartner
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Starbucks workers are still out on ULP strike! Support us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere until the strike is resolved!! We’re fighting for fair union contracts with better pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting - learn more at the link in our bio! #tobeapartner
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My group @dosomethingmo.bsky.social along with @50501kansascity.bsky.social #KCEats and @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social #FoodDrive on the #WorldWar1Museum
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My group @dosomethingmo.bsky.social along with @50501kansascity.bsky.social #KCEats and @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social #FoodDrive on the #WorldWar1Museum
Do you have your plan in place for the Mass Blackout?? November 25th to December 2nd we:
✔️ Aren’t shopping (except for small businesses!!)
✔️ Aren‘t working
✔️ Aren’t streaming—cancel subscriptions
Target corporate systems that benefit from injustice.
www.themassblackout.com
✔️ Aren’t shopping (except for small businesses!!)
✔️ Aren‘t working
✔️ Aren’t streaming—cancel subscriptions
Target corporate systems that benefit from injustice.
www.themassblackout.com
Home | Mass Blackout
The Mass Blackout is a nationwide economic resistance, coordinated across aligned organizations and grassroots movements as a collective refusal to participate in a system that profits off our pain, e...
www.themassblackout.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Do you have your plan in place for the Mass Blackout?? November 25th to December 2nd we:
✔️ Aren’t shopping (except for small businesses!!)
✔️ Aren‘t working
✔️ Aren’t streaming—cancel subscriptions
Target corporate systems that benefit from injustice.
www.themassblackout.com
✔️ Aren’t shopping (except for small businesses!!)
✔️ Aren‘t working
✔️ Aren’t streaming—cancel subscriptions
Target corporate systems that benefit from injustice.
www.themassblackout.com
New companies have been added to the @bigbeautifulboycott.us list!
Ten new companies are added each weekend. Treat every dollar like a vote, especially this holiday season. 💙💵💙
bigbeautifulboycott.us
Ten new companies are added each weekend. Treat every dollar like a vote, especially this holiday season. 💙💵💙
bigbeautifulboycott.us
Big Beautiful Boycott
The Big Beautiful Boycott stops funding to those funding fascism. Every dollar is a choice
bigbeautifulboycott.us
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New companies have been added to the @bigbeautifulboycott.us list!
Ten new companies are added each weekend. Treat every dollar like a vote, especially this holiday season. 💙💵💙
bigbeautifulboycott.us
Ten new companies are added each weekend. Treat every dollar like a vote, especially this holiday season. 💙💵💙
bigbeautifulboycott.us
The KC Eats food drive was wonderful yesterday! Kansas City knows how to take care of each other. 💙
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The KC Eats food drive was wonderful yesterday! Kansas City knows how to take care of each other. 💙
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The Unified Government passed the “Unsafe Camping” ordinance by a vote of 6 to 2, in a meeting that was disrupted by attendees calling for more compassion for unhoused people.
One person said the public camping ban would drive unhoused people further out “into the shadows.”
One person said the public camping ban would drive unhoused people further out “into the shadows.”
Wyandotte County bans homeless people from sleeping outside, despite public outcry
A revised version of the public camping ban — which includes lesser penalties for first time offenses — passed Thursday night. Kansas City, Kansas Police called the measure “dignified” but opponents worry it will criminalize homelessness.
www.kcur.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Unified Government passed the “Unsafe Camping” ordinance by a vote of 6 to 2, in a meeting that was disrupted by attendees calling for more compassion for unhoused people.
One person said the public camping ban would drive unhoused people further out “into the shadows.”
One person said the public camping ban would drive unhoused people further out “into the shadows.”
Two reminders for today:
🪧 Weekly Protest at 9:30am - bring green beans!
🚙 KC Eats food drive from 12-4 at the WWI Museum and Memorial. Donate and get a BOGO museum admission!
🪧 Weekly Protest at 9:30am - bring green beans!
🚙 KC Eats food drive from 12-4 at the WWI Museum and Memorial. Donate and get a BOGO museum admission!
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Two reminders for today:
🪧 Weekly Protest at 9:30am - bring green beans!
🚙 KC Eats food drive from 12-4 at the WWI Museum and Memorial. Donate and get a BOGO museum admission!
🪧 Weekly Protest at 9:30am - bring green beans!
🚙 KC Eats food drive from 12-4 at the WWI Museum and Memorial. Donate and get a BOGO museum admission!
Watch live right now!!
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Watch live right now!!
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KCEATS is hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive this Saturday to support families across KC. The collection will take place at the National WWI Museum and Memorial from 12-4. 💙🌻💙
If you donate, you’ll receive a BOGO ticket voucher for admission to the museum! 🎟️
More info in the comments.
If you donate, you’ll receive a BOGO ticket voucher for admission to the museum! 🎟️
More info in the comments.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
KCEATS is hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive this Saturday to support families across KC. The collection will take place at the National WWI Museum and Memorial from 12-4. 💙🌻💙
If you donate, you’ll receive a BOGO ticket voucher for admission to the museum! 🎟️
More info in the comments.
If you donate, you’ll receive a BOGO ticket voucher for admission to the museum! 🎟️
More info in the comments.
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From @kmuw.bsky.social:
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office signed a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue 48-hour ICE detainers for people held in the county jail.
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office signed a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue 48-hour ICE detainers for people held in the county jail.
Sedgwick County and 19 other Kansas law enforcement agencies have signed agreements with ICE
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office signed a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue 48-hour ICE detainers for people held in the county jail.
kansaspublicradio.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
From @kmuw.bsky.social:
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office signed a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue 48-hour ICE detainers for people held in the county jail.
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office signed a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue 48-hour ICE detainers for people held in the county jail.
Don’t miss our Voices column this week!
“American Dream, or Nightmare?” By Laura Rodriguez
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“American Dream, or Nightmare?” By Laura Rodriguez
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November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Don’t miss our Voices column this week!
“American Dream, or Nightmare?” By Laura Rodriguez
bootsonthegroundmidwest.substack.com/p/american-d...
“American Dream, or Nightmare?” By Laura Rodriguez
bootsonthegroundmidwest.substack.com/p/american-d...
Without legal representation, 89% of asylum seekers in Kansas City are denied. When immigrants have attorneys, outcomes improve by a factor of five!
Help families stay in KC by contributing to the Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (AIRR) legal fund.
Donate here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Help families stay in KC by contributing to the Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (AIRR) legal fund.
Donate here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Legal Fund — AIRR
airrkc.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Without legal representation, 89% of asylum seekers in Kansas City are denied. When immigrants have attorneys, outcomes improve by a factor of five!
Help families stay in KC by contributing to the Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (AIRR) legal fund.
Donate here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Help families stay in KC by contributing to the Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation (AIRR) legal fund.
Donate here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The KC Eats food drive is tomorrow from 12-4!!
KCEATS is hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive this Saturday to support families across KC. The collection will take place at the National WWI Museum and Memorial from 12-4. 💙🌻💙
If you donate, you’ll receive a BOGO ticket voucher for admission to the museum! 🎟️
More info in the comments.
If you donate, you’ll receive a BOGO ticket voucher for admission to the museum! 🎟️
More info in the comments.
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The KC Eats food drive is tomorrow from 12-4!!
Join federal government employees, union leaders, stewards, and community members for Solidarity Happy Hour, today and every Friday at The Ship, from 4-7pm. Anyone can attend!
KC Eats will be there handing out food to those in need, no questions asked. 💙
KC Eats will be there handing out food to those in need, no questions asked. 💙
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join federal government employees, union leaders, stewards, and community members for Solidarity Happy Hour, today and every Friday at The Ship, from 4-7pm. Anyone can attend!
KC Eats will be there handing out food to those in need, no questions asked. 💙
KC Eats will be there handing out food to those in need, no questions asked. 💙
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This holiday season, we’re saying it loud and clear: We Ain’t Buying It.
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This holiday season, we’re saying it loud and clear: We Ain’t Buying It.
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
For too long, corporations have profited off of us. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re taking action with our wallets to demand accountability.
Visit weaintbuyingit.com for more information. #weaintbuyingit
If you missed the Wednesday Workshop yesterday, you can watch it here! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Saving Democracy, One Dinner Table at a Time: Holiday Survival Guide
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbQ...
Saving Democracy, One Dinner Table at a Time: Holiday Survival Guide
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbQ...
Saving Democracy, One Dinner Table at a Time: Holiday Survival Guide
YouTube video by Boots on the Ground Midwest
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November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you missed the Wednesday Workshop yesterday, you can watch it here! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Saving Democracy, One Dinner Table at a Time: Holiday Survival Guide
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbQ...
Saving Democracy, One Dinner Table at a Time: Holiday Survival Guide
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbQ...
Missouri residents!! 👇👇👇
👉 Sign all five petitions at one place!
📍 Plan to visit MCPL - Colbern, Lee's Summit, Mo.
🗓️ Sundays in November
⏰ 2 to 4 p.m.
Your voice matters. Protecting our rights, freedoms, and our vote takes everyone signing and saying NO to gerrymandering and government power grabs. We are WE THE PEOPLE.🇺🇸
📍 Plan to visit MCPL - Colbern, Lee's Summit, Mo.
🗓️ Sundays in November
⏰ 2 to 4 p.m.
Your voice matters. Protecting our rights, freedoms, and our vote takes everyone signing and saying NO to gerrymandering and government power grabs. We are WE THE PEOPLE.🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Missouri residents!! 👇👇👇
Join us Saturday from 9:30-10:30am for the Democracy Needs You Now weekly protest. 🪧
Peggy’s Pantry KC will be there collecting canned green beans for Thanksgiving meal bags!
You can find Peggy’s Pantry KC on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Located in Overland Park, KS and open to anyone. 💙🌻💙
Peggy’s Pantry KC will be there collecting canned green beans for Thanksgiving meal bags!
You can find Peggy’s Pantry KC on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Located in Overland Park, KS and open to anyone. 💙🌻💙
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Join us Saturday from 9:30-10:30am for the Democracy Needs You Now weekly protest. 🪧
Peggy’s Pantry KC will be there collecting canned green beans for Thanksgiving meal bags!
You can find Peggy’s Pantry KC on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Located in Overland Park, KS and open to anyone. 💙🌻💙
Peggy’s Pantry KC will be there collecting canned green beans for Thanksgiving meal bags!
You can find Peggy’s Pantry KC on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Located in Overland Park, KS and open to anyone. 💙🌻💙
Carceral Accountability Council—a huge opponent to CoreCivic— is hosting a Write for Our Rights event! They’ll have tables to write to decision makers, get help drafting op-eds, and get general information about how you can support the mission of carceral accountability.
More info in the comments!
More info in the comments!
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Carceral Accountability Council—a huge opponent to CoreCivic— is hosting a Write for Our Rights event! They’ll have tables to write to decision makers, get help drafting op-eds, and get general information about how you can support the mission of carceral accountability.
More info in the comments!
More info in the comments!