A People's Rally

Name: A People's Rally
Start: 2025-01-18T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-18T15:00:00-06:00
Location: Courthouse Plaza

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Courthouse Plaza | Columbia, MO

A People's Rally will be held in Columbia, MO on Saturday, Jan. 18, starting at 1 p.m. We will be gathering at Courthouse Plaza for speakers, music and solidarity. This gathering is co-sponsored by nearly 20 organizations, and the list is still growing.
The event will be aligned with the National People's March, to be held in Washington D.C. on the same day. The local event will be non-partisan, issue-focused and will offer an alternative agenda for action during the new state and federal administrations on many key issues such as reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, gender and sexual rights, economic justice, immigration rights and mass deportation, climate change and justice, wars and militarism, health and healthcare, democracy reforms, racism and hate, and public education.
The People's Rally is about one thing: our power; not power-over to dominate others. Rather, we will take a stand to build the power to live our lives freely and cooperatively; to collectively care for each other and the Earth.
This event is co-sponsored by: Boone County Democratic Party, C-TAB, Columbia MO NAACP, CoMo Jews 4 Ceasefire, CoMo Street Frenz, Islamic Center of Central Missouri, Liuna Local 955, Mid-MO Democratic Socialists of America, Mid-MO Fellowship of Reconciliation, Mid-MO Green Party, Mid-MO NORML, Mid-MO Peaceworks, Mid-MO Sierra Club Group, Mid-MO Veterans for Peace, Missourians for Justice in Palestine, MIZZOU YDSA, Native American Support Group, Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Renew Missouri, Rock Bridge Christian Church, the WE project (list in formation).
Our keynoter will be activist and educator Jess Piper. A full list of speakers and musicians will be available soon.
If you share our sense that standing strong and standing united is particularly important right now, please make plans to join us and please help get the word out.