September 16, 2012 at 10:31pm
The Northern Kentucky chapter recently tabled at the Transitions Annual Recovery Reunion in support of their work with those dealing with addiction. This annual event, which celebrates the success and continued support of those who are fighting addiction, had over 400 people attend.
September 13, 2012 at 09:29pm
KFTC members from Perry and Letcher counties came together this week to register students at Hazard Community & Technical College to vote. We were invited to set up a KFTC voter registration booth at the HCTC Student Activities Fair on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
September 10, 2012 at 05:49pm
This past weekend, Lexington held its annual Roots and Heritage Festival, which is a celebration of African-American heritage, culture and achievement. Many members from the Central Kentucky chapter of KFTC ran a booth on Saturday where they registered 58 voters.
We also had great conversations with festival goers about KFTC's work to restore voting rights to former felons who’ve paid their debt to society and got an incredible 427 postcards signed in support of voting rights.
September 9, 2012 at 04:50pm
Today, two KFTC electoral organizers went to St. Stephen's Baptist Church in Louisville to register voters and give out information about voting rights. We registered 30 voters and gave a lot of registration cards for people to take home to family members but they will be returning those cards to the church and they will contact us to pick them up.
August 6, 2012 at 11:34pm
For those of you who aren't familiar with Fancy Farm, it's a far western Kentucky church picnic well known for massive amounts of barbeque and almost as much Bingo. Thousands if not tens of thousands of people come out each year.
August 5, 2012 at 09:42pm
The Bill Moyers show this week focused on the topic of voting rights. He interviewed folks from the Brennan Center for Justice who have a recent report out The Challenge of Obtaining Voter Identification about a movement going on in state legislatures across the country trying to make voting more restrictive for some voters.
July 18, 2012
The Courier-Journal
Our criminal justice system punishes those who break the law, and, once their debt to society is paid, allows them to reenter the community. Many of these ex-felons manage to stay clean, get jobs and raise families, like anyone else. Yet in Kentucky, they remained permanently banned from a fundamental American activity: Voting.
July 16, 2012 at 04:16pm
This weekend, KFTC helped to register voters and connected with people around our campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their time at a community event in the Trent Blvd. area of Lexington.
The event was organized by our own Tayna Fogle and other organizations participating included Steppin To a New Beat and Men of Action.
July 14, 2012 at 04:32pm
On the first Saturday in August every year, hundreds of politically-minded people along with many candidates and public officials come to a tiny town in far western Kentucky for a rigorous day of stump speeches and barbecue called Fancy Farm, an event that tends to set the tone for the last 3 months of the election season.
