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At least 200 demonstrators marched through downtown #KansasCity today (23 January '26) in 5℉ (don't laugh, Minnesotans; we consider that quite cold down here) to show their solidarity with Minnesota at large and Minneapolis in particular.
#LocalResistance #IceOutForGood #MissouriWorkersCenter
Photo with Added Text: On the west side of Walnut, south of 12th Street in Kansas City, Missouri: An "older" man (but probably not as old as me) wearing a black, hooded, zippered sweatshirt over insulated overalls emerges on a sidewalk from beneath a lot of aluminum scaffolding. His demeanor is stern. He's walking towards the camera, holding a hand-made sign with black, blue and white letters on white poster board. The sign reads, "STOP ICE MURDERS | JUSTICE FOR RENEE." There are a lot more people behind him, also carrying signs. In the first row behind him, two young girls bundled in snow gear. The first carries a sign reading, "Fund Schools | Not ICE." Behind, a smaller girls lifts a colorful hand-made sign reading, "ICE OUT." A woman right behind the girls, in a knit cap, carries her own sign reading, "KC Schools | Not ICE." A middle-aged man beside them carries a sign that is only partially visible, but it reads, in full, "ICE OUT FOR GOOD." The signs behind the front row of demonstrators are blocked by intervening marchers or beyond the photograph's depth of field and not in focus. To the right, another photographer, wearing a parka, carries a shoulder bag and camera. The demonstration was promoted by the Missouri Workers Center. 23 January 2023
January 24, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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According to their web site, Platform Ventures manages "$3.6B [in] Assets," including, according to reporting (see all text), a warehouse that PV intends to sell to ICE "for use as a detention facility."

KC Stands with #Minnesota
#KansasCity, #Missouri
23 January 2023
#LocalResistance
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Photo: Looking to the northeast from the southwest, about 23 (of 200 or so) protesters are in frame, with their backs to the camera, facing the office building that houses Platform Ventures, an "Entrepreneurial Investment Firm." Signs with legible messages include: "Only You Can Prevent Fascism" "'Make Good Trouble' – John Lewis" "Justice for Renee Good" and "Arrest Jonathan Ross for Murder NOW!" The office building is limestone on its first two floors, with faux window arches featuring crest-like shields and faux rod-iron balcony railings decorating the windows on the second floor. Its exterior is more ordinary red brick from the third floor (where Platform Ventures is headquartered) upward. Platform Ventures: https://www.platformv.com/ Platform Ventures Contact Page: https://www.platformv.com/contact KCStar gift link: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article314433588.html?giftCode=c8edb80cf90ef438628ca64c3ea3f061fd9fe31e6d0e0368af68d261a83df7d6 KMBC: https://www.kmbc.com/article/port-kc-facility-documents-plan-to-sell-detention-center/70114251 KSHB: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/port-kc-agenda-details-developers-plan-to-sell-kansas-city-warehouse-to-ice Photo: Looking to the southeast from the northwest, about 60 (of 200 or so) protesters are distinguishable in frame, with their backs to the camera, facing the office building that houses Platform Ventures, an investment firm that reportedly intends to sell ICE a roughly 1 million square-foot warehouse in their portion of an industrial park off I-49 near the old Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. Platform Ventures: https://www.platformv.com/ Platform Ventures Contact Page: https://www.platformv.com/contact KCStar gift link: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article314433588.html?giftCode=c8edb80cf90ef438628ca64c3ea3f061fd9fe31e6d0e0368af68d261a83df7d6 KMBC: https://www.kmbc.com/article/port-kc-facility-documents-plan-to-sell-detention-center/70114251 KSHB: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/port-kc-agenda-details-developers-plan-to-sell-kansas-city-warehouse-to-ice
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM