Racial Justice
KFTC is working for a day when discrimination is wiped out of our laws, habits, and hearts.
Voting Rights Coalition forges a path forward
Today, we had our first Voting Rights Coalition meeting! Twenty-six people from 19 organizations came out to get to know each other and to start to forge a path forward to win the right to vote of 312,000 Kentucky citizens with felonies in their past.
There was a lot of good will and great ideas in the room and we're now together with a shared analysis and rough path forward.
About 25 additional organizations are interested in joining the conversation or have been in conversation with us on the issue, but weren't able to make it out to this meeting. It's a solid start.
Powerful Voting Rights lobby day in Frankfort
Today nearly 100 KFTC members and close allies gathered in Frankfort to talk to legislators about restoring voting rights to people with felonies in their past and push for a constitutional amendment that would recognize the right to vote of 312,000 Kentuckians who can't vote now because of our felony disenfranchisement law that is out of step with the rest of the United States. Dozens of the people who came out talked about the issue from first hand experience, having the right to vote in Kentucky taken away from them.
We had meetings with over 30 legislators and built up support for the issue with Democrats and Republicans alike, including many legislators who just got elected for the first time this last November. The vast majority of senators and representatives we talked to said they were in favor of restoring voting rights.
Creating Spaces of Belonging: Anti-Oppression Within Our Organizing
KFTC aims to model and live out the values and vision that are necessary to build the world we want to live in. This workshop will support participants in building a shared understanding of systems of oppression, how they impact us and our organizing, and how we can create spaces that move us toward collective liberation.
NKY Democracy Meeting
Join KFTC members as we dig into where we want to do long term voter engagement work: what precincts and cities we want to canvass in 2019 in the lead up to the 2019 and 2020 election, what communities we want to see greater turnout from, and what it will take to build a progressive, multi-racial, and working class based voting block across northern Kentucky that will work to promote and protec
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