Kansas City students walked out of class on Friday to join dozens of organizers and workers in support of May Day and to protest federal immigration action and data centers in their communities.
Swoo Harter, a sophomore at Plaza Academy, and other students joined protesters with the Missouri Workers Center and Sunrise Movement KC at the corner of Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard with chants of “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.”
Swoo said one of her concerns is federal immigration agents killing and detaining people in the United States. The other is the increase of artificial intelligence data centers across the country, and in the Kansas City area…