900+ Attend Hands Off Protest at Manhattan City Park
Manhattan Protest was 5th Largest in the State (with Gallery)
On April 5, 2025, over 900 citizens took to City Park to exercise their First Amendment rights.
Veterans, faith leaders, social services providers, students, retirees, parents, blue collar workers, educators, and individuals from all walks of life rallied together to express dissatisfaction with actions taken by the Republican administration, such as:
Robbing Kansas farmers of advancements and crop resiliency by eliminating USAID funding that provided over $50 million in research grants to KSU’s work in sustainable agriculture, .
Reducing the country’s ability to forecast tornado emergencies, and putting millions of Midwest lives at risk by cutting over 2,000 employees from NOAA.
Reducing the country’s ability to respond to wildfires by cutting over 1,000 employees from the National Parks Service and another 3,400 from the US Forest Service.
Obliterating our country’s ability to manage bird flu, drug safety, and senior centers by cutting 20,000 employees from federal health agencies.
Disconnecting the heat for 5 million households by terminating the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
Destroying public education by eliminating half of the Department of Education, recalling $14 million in education funding from the state of Kansas, and dismantling the Department’s civil rights office, which largely served children with disabilities.
Starving local families served by Harvesters, the Flint Hills Breadbasket, and Common Table by cutting over $1 billion in USDA funding that allowed food banks to purchase from local farms.
Protests will continue throughout April, including a nationwide protest by Project 50501 on April 19, and a statewide Free State protest on April 26.
For more information, visit imhk.org and join us at our next Indivisible MHK General Meeting for on April 30 at 7pm at the Manhattan Public Library Auditorium. We are bi-partisan, pro-democracy, and powered by you.
