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Held Over Zoom: Featured Speaker: Ariana Eakle, “Gender, Race, and this Place”

March 15, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Sunday Gathering HELD ON ZOOM due to Coronavirus. Go to Oasis Facebook page to learn login information. Updates are coming:

Featured Speaker:Ariana Eakle: “Gender, Race, and this Place: Great Intersectional Moments of Labor in the American Midwest”
Musical Guest: Arianna Nicole
Community Moment: TBA

Kansas City and the American Midwest have a rich history of workers coming together to demand a better life for themselves and their families, disregarding taboo to organize across gender and racial lines. Join us to discuss the Kansas City General Strike of 1918 and other notable moments of solidarity and unrest in the Midwest.

About the speaker: Ariana Eakle is a journeyman electrician with IBEW local union 124, a five-year volunteer co-producer of The Heartland Labor Forum on KKFI 90.1 FM, and the editor of the Greater KC Activist Calendar Events Newsletter.

*By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Oasis Code of Conduct (https://www.kcoasis.org/about-oasis/code-of-conduct/).

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Date:
March 15, 2020
Time:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm