KKFI-Kansas City Community Radio 90.1FM will host Kicking the Koch Habit and Expanding Democracy for All, a conference, on August 10 & 11, 2018
KKFI-Kansas City Community Radio 90.1FM will host Kicking the Koch Habit and Expanding Democracy for All, a conference, on August 10 & 11, 2018 in Kansas City, MO. The conference features three notable thinkers on how American democracy is being undermined by the billionaire class. Nancy MacLean, author of the award-winning Democracy in Chains; The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Jason Stanley, author of the upcoming How Fascism Works: The Politics of US and Them, and Jim Hightower, radio commentator, author and publisher of The Hightower Lowdown.
Conference times and locations are: Friday, August 10, 6 - 9:30pm and Saturday, August 11, 8am - 5pm at UMKC Student Union 5100 Cherry St., KC, MO 64110, 4th floor and Saturday, August 11, 6 - 9:30pm at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, KC, MO 64110.
Prices: Click Below To Reserve Your Seat
The Whole Shebang: Full Conference WITH Hightower Dinner & Speech: $90
The Diet Shebang: All of above EXCEPT dinner: $50 ($25 Student)
Saturday Night Shebang: Dinner and Hightower Speech: $60
The Saturday Night Only: No Dinner, Just the Hightower Speech: $20 ($10 Student)
Phone: 877-435-9849
Email: customersupport@ticketfly.com
2018/08/10 - 2018/08/11
Additional time info:
Friday, August 10th (6p-9:30p)
6pm – Registration
6:30pm – Speed Dating for Activists
7-8pm – Spoken Word, Radical Poetry and Songs of Protest
8- 9:30pm – Plenary speaker Jason Stanley, Yale University, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of US and Them
Saturday August 11th (8a-5p)
8am – Registration, Coffee and Pastries
8:30 – 11:30am – Workshops
11:30-12:30 – Lunch (included) with The Recipe – Spoken Word, etc.
12:30-1:45pm – Nancy MacLean, Duke University, author: Democracy in Chains, The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
2-4:45pm – Workshops
Saturday August 11th (6p-9:30p)
6-7:30 – Jim Hightower and Danny Cox Meet & Greet Dinner
7:00 – Doors open for Hightower speech
7:30 – Singer, Actor, Recording Artist Danny Cox followed by Hell-raising speech by Jim Hightower, Radio Commentator, Speaker, & author of Hightower Lowdown
9:30 Adjourn
UMKC Student Union and All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
5100 Cherry St., KC, MO 64110, 4th floor and 4501 Walnut, KC, MO 64110, Kansas City, MO 64110