Kansas "backwards" with those reporters wearing blinders.

“Is Kansas going backwards?”

If you are a reporter, columnist or newspaper publisher who looks back in obvious pain at living as a teenager in Kansas it would make sense to pose the above question. Look deeper and see how prominent writers put the blinders on when it comes to even acknowledging dissent and resistance here.

But she doesn’t check her on – line media resources, well, because apparently it’s a “column” not a news piece. She would have better served her readers by citing a counter from one of the few brave organizations in Kansas that is fighting for reproductive rights, ProKanDo

Take a look at how this editorialist at the largest daily newspaper in N. E. Kansas treated the issue of sex and education in Kansas. Kansas City Star editorial writer, Laura Scott asks the obvious. Read her interesting, but incomplete piece at: http://tinyurl.com/qgfoy.


Taking it to the streets, down south.
And, people are getting ready in Stillwater, Oklahoma to confront President Bush at his first (and probably only) visit to a college campus in that state. Wichita Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas is mobilizing for a trip there after they report 125 in a march during the recent anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Get contact information from the Oklahoma organizer of the protest event at: http://tinyurl.com/o7fr9

Did you know that the company Vice President Cheney served on the Board of Directors, Halliburton, was based in Oklahoma? Well here is a short burst of information provided by Horace at the Wichita peace center linked above:

“On March 16, the Halliburton Corporation announced that its 2006 shareholders’ meeting will be held in founder, Erle P. Halliburton’s hometown of Duncan, Oklahoma. Traditionally held in Houston, Texas Halliburton’s annual shareholders’ meeting has become a lightning rod community’s outrage and protest.”

And the “protest and outrage” is following the happy shareholders to Duncan, Oklahoma.

Again, according to Horace, “Protesters plan to make their presence known in Duncan, Oklahoma on May 17, 2006 and are encouraged by the fact that Halliburton is so afraid of public scrutiny that it would relocate a major meeting to a remote small town in the middle of Oklahoma. The move certainly calls their community leadership, business acumen and investment value into question.”

A list of contacts to attend the “peaceful demonstration” is available at one of the best community center web sites in Kansas at: Wichita Peace .