Voting Rights Coalition Meeting Report

Posted by: Dave Newton on June 11, 2011 at 08:00pm

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Over 40 KFTC members and allies came together in Louisville yesterday to revitalize our coalition work to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.

Representatives from about a dozen organizations came from Louisville, Lexington, Northern KY, Georgetown, Elizabethtown, Frankfort, and even Prestonsburg. Ten former felons were there, providing key insights and personal stories.

It's been over a year since we last met as a coalition on this scale and we spent much of the meeting sharing an analysis of how our campaign is going, talking about recent work, and building relationships.

Storytelling was another key part of the day and we broke into pairs to practice telling powerful personal stories about why we care about this issue. We did some work that will later result in a continuation of a series of blog stories called "Former Felon Voices" that will tell stories about individual former felons from across the state.

We got a lot done at this meeting, but folks were eager to organize another meeting soon, possibly late next month, to build more solid plans moving forward. The idea of having this meeting in Georgetown and including a field activity (like a door-to-door canvass) got some traction. Look to this blog for updates soon.