Kansas Greens have been busy this year continuing to advocate for change in our communities. Here is a summary of Kansas Green Party activities from April through July and ways to get more involved!
Housing / Tenant Rights
The issue of housing is a prominent concern here in Kansas. From the Aspen Place apartments crisis in Gardner to the criminalization of homelessness in Wichita and Trump’s new executive order making the problem exponentially worse, people are suffering due to the ever-increasing cost of living and dwindling access to resources and the lack of accountability by corrupt landlords and government officials.
The Kansas Green Party has been working with other organizations to encourage the formation of local tenant unions and educate renters about their rights. In June we held a free community education workshop about tenants’ rights which you can watch the recording of on our YouTube channel or on Facebook.
Our very own Nick Blessing, public interest attorney and tenant advocate, will be hosting public “office hours” in the future to answer questions and provide resources to renters in the Kansas City area at no cost so stay tuned for more information!
The Kansas Green Party has also officially endorsed Kiel Corkran for City Council in Fairway, KS. The situation of housing inequality is especially bad in Fairway and Kiel is campaigning for rent control and working-class protections in his city.
Fairway residents in Ward 4 can vote for Kiel in the November 4, 2025 election.
Please support his campaign at kiel4fairway.com!
As homelessness continues to rise throughout the state, Kansas Greens are in the process of starting an assistance fund to provide direct grants to unhoused members of our community. If you would like to help us with this project and future fundraising efforts please email ksgreenparty@gmail.com!
Environment
In April, Kansas Greens across the state celebrated Earth Day by providing sustainability demonstrations and alternative energy education at events and encouraging climate action. With environmental regulations being rolled back by the Trump administration and the new budget bill, it is more important than ever to protect our ecosystem and vulnerable communities from the abuses of the fossil fuel industry.
at Johnson County Community College
The fight for clean, affordable energy in Kansas is an ongoing struggle, with energy monopoly Evergy planning construction on two new fossil gas turbines in Reno and Sumner County and burdening Kansas customers with repeated rate increases despite their record profits.
Evergy’s application for the gas plants was unfortunately approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission, but with mandates in place that make us hopeful for Evergy to be held accountable to the people of Kansas over their corporate shareholders in the future. We will continue to speak out against the greedy capitalist agenda of corporations like Evergy and advocate for clean renewable energy for the future of Kansas.
Immigration
As the US government sends masked agents to abduct people off the streets and disappear them to prison camps with no due process, the immigration situation is very close to home here in Kansas. Private prison company CoreCivic is trying to reopen their infamous for-profit facility in Leavenworth as an ICE detention center.
Kansas Greens have joined numerous organizations, activists, and even the city of Leavenworth itself in opposition to CoreCivic’s proposal and their history of ruthless disregard for human rights. We will continue to attend court hearings and rallies and speak out to make it clear that CoreCivic, ICE, and their profit driven concentration camps are not welcome in Kansas.
To stay updated with the situation in Leavenworth you can follow the CoreCivic Opposition Group on social media and view other important info and sign the petition via their linktree: https://linktr.ee/stopcorecivicLV
To further help immigrants in Kansas please follow AIRR (Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation) and donate to their emergency fund, and keep an eye out for upcoming Know Your Rights and Community Defense workshops they will be hosting primarily in the KC area.
Anti-War / Organizing
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza reaches a critical level and tensions with other countries like Iran escalate, Greens across the state have continued to protest and speak out against war and US imperialism. The Kansas Green Party has endorsed the Rising Majority call to action against war & genocide and lobbied for legislation to divest from nuclear weapons programs and end all US funding to the genocidal Israeli regime.
Greens have been present at weekly protests in Wichita, and in Kansas City the Green Party has been proud to partner with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) to speak at their many pop-up rallies for justice in Palestine and against war with Iran.
We will continue to work toward strengthening coalitions with other local organizations and socialist movements. A strong organizational structure is necessary to resist fascism which is why the Kansas Green Party is also in full support of the General Strike movement. We joined many other state and local Green chapters in endorsing the open letter declaring our support for a general strike and we will continue to work on mutual aid efforts in our state to make such collective action possible.
Outreach
May 31 was the National Day of Action for Single Payer Healthcare and Kansas Greens across the state took to the streets to advocate for universal healthcare after endorsing the NSP list of demands. That same day was also the Boots on the Ground volunteer fair in Kansas City where we tabled along with Missouri Greens to promote national single payer as well as recruit new volunteers and attendees for upcoming community organizing events. We’ve also partnered with the KCMO Green Party to table and hand out fliers at various recent mass mobilizations such as the “No Kings” protests to encourage new activists to dump the duopoly.
We have increased our online presence and social media outreach over the summer, and as the heat subsides and the 2025 election approaches we are going to resume more in-person meetings and outreach events to fundraise and welcome newcomers into the Green Party.
Kansas Greens in Fairway are doing weekly canvassing for Kiel Corkran’s campaign (if you would like to volunteer please contact info@kiel4fairway.com) and will be holding a community gathering/candidate town hall in September.
Later this fall Greens will be doing more outreach at universities across the state as well as the Future Forward energy conference in Topeka. We are hoping to increase our presence in the Lawrence/Topeka area and western Kansas as right now our main two activity hubs are in the Wichita and KC areas. If you are interested in starting a local chapter in your city please contact us at ksgreenparty@gmail.com or fill out the form on the website.
Make sure to follow us on social media to stay updated with new events and action items. Thank you for helping us grow this movement!
Kansas Green Party 