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Thursday, 28 March 2024

Hundreds gather at Mill Creek Park for Freedom Rally

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Hundreds gather at Mill Creek Park for Freedom Rally
Hundreds gather at Mill Creek Park for Freedom Rally
Hundreds gather at Mill Creek Park for Freedom Rally

PLATE.BUT FIRST -- PROTESTSACROSS THE COUNTRYTODAY -- AS MANY SAY --NOT EVERYONE IN THE U-SIS TRULY FREE.WE'VE SEENDEMONSTRATIONS FROMPITTSBURGH --WASHINGTON D-C -- ANDEVEN HERE IN KANSASCITY.41 ACTION NEWSREPORTER MCKENZIENELSON ATTENDEDTODAY'S FREEDOM RALLY-- AS PEOPLE TOLD HER --THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE --IS NO WHERE CLOSE TOBEING OVER.MCKENZIE NELSON - REPORTINGTHIS FREEDOM RALLY ISWRAPPING UP NOW BUTMORE THAN 100COMMUNITY MEMBERSAND ACTIVISTS HAVE BEENGATHERED HERE AT MILLCREEK PARK TO TALKABOUT 'Independence Day'AND THE MEANING BEHINDIT.JUSTICE HORN - COMMUNITYACTIVIST"We're not at all, this isn't ananti-America rally at all."COMMUNITY ACTIVISTJUSTICE HORN SAYS THEFREEDOM RALLY WASABOUT JUST THAT -FREEDOM.HORN"For July 4, basically sayingthat we're not all free untileveryones free, so reallyhighlighting the progress thathas been made and needs tocontinue to happen not only inthe USA but also here inMissouri and Kansas City."AS PROTESTS HAVE TAKENPLACE ACROSS THENATION IN RECENT WEEKS- ORGANIZERS OF THEFREEDOM RALLY SAY THEYWANT TO CONTINUE THECONVERSATION.CHLOE COOPER - CO-FOUNDEROF Kansas City COMMUNITY BAILFUND"The time is now to make achange and we're continuingthis momentum."CHLOE COOPER IS THECO-FOUNDER OF THEKansas City COMMUNITYBAIL FUND.THE LOCAL ORGANIZATIONPAID TO BAIL OUT ANUMBER OF PROTESTERSWHO WERE ARRESTEDDURING THEDEMONSTRATION."Like many of you, I was teargassed, I was arrested, I wastreated like a criminal whileexercising my constitutionalrights."AS THE ORGANIZER OFTHE FREEDOM RALLY -COOPER SAID THAT ONEWORD -DOESN'T MEAN THESAME FOR EVERYONE.COOPER"This does not represent aholiday to celebrate freedom.We believe that nobody cantruly be free until everybody isfree.

That means free fromsystemic racism, free frompolice brutality, free from anunequal education system andthe list goes on and on anduntil we get that equality andthat true freedom, this is not aholiday that should becelebrated."NATS - BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEMIN Kansas City, MCKENZIENELSON, 41 ACITON NEWS.

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