Kansas Citians angrily protest Republican efforts to redraw Congressional districts

Joining anti-Trump rallies across the country on Labor Day, workers, civil rights advocates and ordinary citizens gathered at Mill Creek Park Fountain on the Plaza. The Kansas City protests took aim at the president’s effort to maintain Republican control of Congress by altering blue districts to favor his party.

More than 500 loud and energetic protestors lined 47th Street, Broadway Blvd., and snaked around the Mill Creek Fountain Park up Main Street, bobbing placards and signs reading “Save Democracy,” “End Gerrymandering,” and “Hands Off Our Districts.” The gathering mirrored large protests nationwide designed to amplify the voices of workers this Labor Day and object to the perceived disenfranchisement of Democrats by Republican efforts to redraw the lines around blue districts.