MCDC Conference

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Kansas City, prepare to be educated.

At its first-ever regional conference this weekend, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps says it will educate the public about its mission: fighting illegal immigration with legal protest activities.

Civil rights groups plan a counter march Friday to educate the public about what they say the Minuteman organization embraces: hate speech and vigilantism.

The coming showdown arose out of the controversy over Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s appointment last year of Frances Semler, an active member of the Minuteman group, to the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Board.

Civil rights groups urged Funkhouser to rescind her appointment.

When he did not, the National Council of La Raza, a nonprofit organization that advocates for Hispanics, threatened to take its 2009 convention out of Kansas City