june 16, 2024
organized for children & caregivers
to participate in a collective action
for peace (& fun)
FORECAST: HOT.
STATIONS!
music!
tEACH - IN!
POETRY!
SIGN MAKING!
CRAFTS!
“FLOAT” DECORATING!
PARACHUTE!
pEACE parade!!!!
What is the KC Children’s Peace Parade?
A community gathering! We’ll picnic, play, and have a parade together at the end!
Our vision: As parents, caregivers, and community members engaged in local and global justice movements, we recognize that all liberation struggles before us are interconnected–from gun violence to climate change to a free Palestine.
The Children’s Peace Parade is an opportunity to envision a shared future for our children that is rooted in community-building, mutuality, joy, and justice. We are organizing this event specifically for children, caregivers, and families to participate in a collective action for peace.
THANK YOU TO OUR PLANNING TEAM, friends, artists & VOLUNTEERS!
Planning committee &
community leaders:
beeta kashani-mccroy
jaime rovenstine
becca anderson
katie carttar
jen lacy
melissa ferrer civil
dylan pyles
Goals for the event:
Create a space for kids to lead, learn, and participate in an age-appropriate action
Help parents & caregivers connect & build community
Get families connected with local organizations they can engage with locally to create our shared future
Who we are: We are a group of parents and community members from the Kansas City area.
Where will monetary donations go? We are raising support to offset the costs of park permits, event insurance, port-a-potties, paid musicians, and supplies for activity stations. (Estimated event cost: $2500.
“You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order for us to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. Or, I am saying, in other words, that we, the elders, are the only models children have. What we see in the children is what they have seen in us–or, more accurately perhaps, what they see in us.
― James Baldwin, The Nation, November 1, 1980
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