Subject: American Civil Liberties Union

• Candlelight vigil for George Tiller

  Dozens gathered last night at the J.C. Nichols Fountain for a candlelight vigil for George Tiller. Amongst the crowd, reps from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU and Missouri state senator Jolie Justus. This slideshow reveals a lot of sad, confused and outraged people ... but also people determined to not let an act of terrorism like Tiller's murder scare them into keeping their mouths shut.  

  June 2, 2009

• Kobach Cashes In

  August 1, 2007

• Kobach Calls In

  August 3, 2007

• Atticus! Atticus! It’s Banned Books Week.

  September 25, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Pennsylvania Primarily, American Cheerleader, JoCoyotes

  April 22, 2008

• ACLU Monitoring P&L Dress Code

  July 8, 2008

• ACLU May Get Involved in Justus Drugstore Case

  July 9, 2008

• ACLU Protests Power & Light Dress Code

  August 31, 2008

• Send Pix Plz

  April 2, 2009

• “Pussy Bitch” bumper stickers run afoul of city law

  September 24, 2008

• Justus Drugstore Update

  October 16, 2008

• Cordish refuses to give balloons to children; dongs to women

  We'd hoped that Cordish's removal of undesirables from the pulsing economic organ of chain bars and restaurants known as Power & Light was a one time thing. Sadly, it's not just preachers having a hard time. Many more have been turned away by those hearty few charged with protecting the virtue of PBR Big Sky's mechanical bull, the standing of what is apparently the city's only rock bar and the limited supply of Famous Dave's barbecue.  

  December 10, 2008

• Mail

  June 15, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  June 7, 2001

• Kansas City Strip

  November 1, 2001

• Windows smashed at ACLU office

  Last Thursday, someone threw a "big ol' landscaping rock" through a set of glass doors at the American Civil Liberties Union's Kansas City office. ACLU Executive Dan Winter sent out an e-mail, saying the attack was the second in three weeks. I called Winter this morning to see why someone would chuck a rock through his front door. Winter told me that he thought the vandalism was planned given the type of rock thrown. But he has no idea who hurled the rock.  "It may be Phelps related," Winte

  February 10, 2009

• Funkhouser recall group lawyers up

  Mark FunkhouserThe dump the Funk crew is threatening to take the recall recount to court if the Kansas City Council doesn't tell the city clerk to do the recount. The recall committee hired attorney Brett Shirk yesterday "to examine and pursue all available legal remedies to force" the election boards in Platte and Clay counties and Kansas City to do a recount. Here's the word from recall spokesman Harris Wilder:"While we remain hopeful that the City Council will take action to order a recount w

  June 5, 2009

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: Make sure your tax dollars don't get swallowed in the endless abyss of discontent between the City Council and Mayor Mark Funkhouser, catch a ride with the ACLU to short-circuit the death penalty and get a personal performance from a local band to help out your friendly community radio station.

  February 16, 2009

• The Idiot's Guide to Protesting

  December 11, 2003

• Idiot Boxed

  December 25, 2003

• Bad News

  October 14, 2004

• Copfest 2009! National Fusion Center Conference mobs downtown Marriott

  Did you know that there's an office at 635 Woodland that collects reports from local police departments about suspicious activities in the metro area and analyzes them for terrorist threats? And that "suspicious activities" can include taking pictures of questionable aesthetic value, lurking around potential terrorist targets like power plants and oil refineries, or looking up subversive stuff on the 'net? Amateur photographers who like staging photo shoots in the West Bottoms, you might wan

  March 11, 2009

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: Get cinematically inspired to stop buying tap water in pointless and polluting plastic bottles, help the cash-strapped city deal with its bank-breaking storm water problem by learning to contain with your own dirty run-off and strike fear into the hearts of politicians who hate to see a crowd of protesters on their lawn by enrolling in a free class on how to become an effective rabble-rouser.

  March 23, 2009

• Missouri Libertarians: We're not terrorists!

  According to a Missouri fusion center, these kids might be terrorists.When Mike Ferguson got a late-night alert about a report linking the Libertarian Party to domestic terrorism he thought it was the work of an overzealous blogger with bad information and a penchant for conspiracy. An official publication distributed to Missouri law enforcement agencies associating his party's 2008 presidential candidate, Bob Barr, with violent extremists? Surely not. Well, the leaked memo from a fusion center

  March 24, 2009

• KC vigil for slain abortion doctor Monday night

  A candlelight vigil for George Tiller -- the Wichita abortion doctor killed while serving as an usher at church Sunday -- is scheduled at the J.C. Nichols fountain, 47th and Main, for 8 p.m. Monday, Blog KC says.  There's more on Facebook.Join the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NOW and other pro-choice advocates in Kansas City TONIGHT to honor the life and memory Dr George Tiller, who was murdered yesterday. YOU can stand up against these attacks and for Dr. Tiller and the cause he believed so s

  June 1, 2009

• ACLU2

  April 9, 2009

• Want the fun of a public meeting without having to be there? Twitter is the only way to fly.

  March 12, 2009

• Dirty Old Town

  Notes from Pitch.com

  November 6, 2008

• ACLU Monthly Meeting

  September 11, 2008

• Letters

  July 17, 2008

• Kansas City officials had plenty of warning that the Cordish Co. would impose a discriminatory dress code

  July 3, 2008

• How Would Jesus Haunt?

  October 12, 2006

• Granny the Terrorist

  September 21, 2006

• Play On

  April 27, 2006

• One Holy Night

  November 24, 2005

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  Reviews and previews of upcoming shows.

  November 17, 2005

• Guy Talk

  Jackson Katz discusses the less-discussed sex.

  November 3, 2005

• The Next Big Thing

  Local artists, show us your hits.

  July 14, 2005

• Taking Liberties

  Dick Kurtenbach's patriotism was no act.

  June 30, 2005

• Behind the Veil

  What�s with all this talk about getting married, anyway?

  November 18, 2004

• Homo Homage

  It's a whole weekend of queer cinema.

  August 19, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of May 6, 2004

  May 6, 2004

• A Boy's Life

  The Supreme Court effectively threw out the Kansas Sodomy Law, but Attorney General Phill Kline won't let Matthew Limon out of jail.

  January 22, 2004

• Dem Blues

  The left, turning right, was plain wrong.

  May 29, 2003

• Head Cases

  A man who had sex at Shawnee Mission Park and patrons at a St. Louis porn house carry the baton for gays and lesbians in Kansas and Missouri.

  January 2, 2003

• Saturday Night Special

  Westport on Saturday night is where the cops try to keep a lid on the party.

  August 17, 2000

• Christian and pagan, God or goddess

  June 1, 2000

• KC Police Board reinstates domestic partner benefits, ACLU says

  Just noticed an e-mail from the ACLU saying that the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners voted today to reinstate domestic partner benefits. Here's the full e-mail:Many thanks to ACLU members and supporters plus our coalition partners at PROMO, Four Freedoms, the Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City. The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners voted to reinstate domestic partner benefits at its meeting this morning, May 14th, 2009. Special thanks goes to commissioners, Karl Zo

  May 14, 2009

• The Give a Shit List

  This week: Don't let Power & Light be the last word on downtown redevelopment, understand the connection between your automobile and environmental Armageddon and score a few bucks for the United Way by taking in possibly the most kick-ass game of the soccer season.

  May 18, 2009

• American Violet

  July 16, 2009