Marching On!

This legislative session is rushing by, and the fights to expand rights and defend against their infringement are taking place throughout the state house. ACLU of Kansas Policy Director Aileen Berquist is joined by Senate Minority Leader Dinah to reflect on Kansas' legislative session thus far. Civil liberties are on the line as legislators look to erode voting rights and abortion rights.

To start 2023, we're taking a look backward in time. Mark McCormick, Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives, interviews Dr. Galyn Vesey, who—as a student at Wichita State in 1958—participated in the first student-led sit-in in the United States. Afterward, Mark interviews Jo Brown, who was a force for equality when she served as the first African American woman on the Wichita school board.

The imperative 2022 midterm elections are behind us, and our sights move forward to the upcoming legislative session in the Topeka statehouse. Kerry Gooch (Gooch Strategies) and Michael Poppa (Mainstream Coalition) join ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic to analyze the results from the election and look ahead to how those outcomes will impact civil liberties in the 2023 legislative session.

ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic kicks off Marching On with conversations with Former Kansas Governor and United States secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Loud Light Founder and President Davis Hammet, to discuss the potentially paradigm-shifting rebuke of an anti-abortion amendment on August 2, the defense of civil liberties, and the fight to protect voting rights in the November 8 midterms and beyond.