Racial Justice
KFTC is working for a day when discrimination is wiped out of our laws, habits, and hearts.
Jefferson County Chapter Meeting
Smoketown Community Canvass
The Jefferson County Chapter of KFTC is hosting four community canvasses in the Smoketown neighborhood during the Mayor's Week of Service.
Jefferson County Economic Justice Meeting
Join the Jefferson County Chapter's Economic Justice Team for our monthly meeting. We'll discuss building a local economic justice campaign focused on equitable development, affordable housing and healthcare, and participatory budgeting. Come learn and share with us!
Justice for Gynnya!
Last month, a young girl named Gynnya McMillen died while in custody at Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown. Gynnya’s life mattered.
Her death has drawn national attention. There were clear violations of the safety protocols: She wasn’t checked on according to protocol. Nobody tried immediately to resuscitate her when she was found. And the night before her death, she was placed in what’s been called an “Aikido restraint” for not removing her sweatshirt.
White Environmentalists Acting for Racial Justice
“To Change Everything We Need Everyone.” Start to embody this powerful climate change slogan by coming to this 350 Louisville event. This training will be conducted by
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KFTC's Racial Justice Committee
KFTC's Racial Justice Committee helps ensure the organization is incorporating racial justice and anti-oppression into all of our work and strategies. The Racial Justice Committee’s work includes informing the membership on issues affecting racial justice, coordinating education and skill-building opportunities, and ensuring that racial justice principles are applied to all areas of KFTC’s program of work in an intersectional way. The Committee helps ensure KFTC is being a good ally and is working in solidarity with other organizations on these issues.
Where we stand
KFTC's Statement on Black Lives Matter - Why 'Black Lives Matter' matters
KFTC's Statement on Immigrants, Refugees, and Muslims
Resources
KFTC is launching a political education curriculum in 2021 where we will learn from abolitionist perspectives about defunding the police and moving toward our vision for ALL people to enjoy a better quality of life. Sign up to stay informed on when this curriculum will launch at cutt.ly/PoliEdSeries
VIDEOS
Unvictimizable: Fatphobia and Ableism as Weapons of Antiblack Violence with Professor Anna Mollow (32 minute video)
Lydia Brown on Disability Justice Intersection with Racial Justice and Queer/Trans Liberation (40 minute video)
ARTICLES
1619 Project – New York Times Magazine
400 years ago, in August 1619, a ship landed at a British colony in what is now Virginia carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. 250 years of slavery followed. On the 400th anniversary of the start of slavery in the U.S. the New York Times tries to truthfully tell the story of what happened then, and since.
Journal of Environmental Sociology on Intersections of disability justice, racial justice, and environmental justice (a bit academic, but very relevant)
Trump's Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History (Truth Out opinion piece)
A US Immigration Policy History of White Supremacy and Ableism (Aljazeera opinion piece)
Jim Crow’s Disabilities: Racial Injury, Immobility, and the Terrible Handicap in the Literature of James Weldon Johnson (Project Muse)
OTHER
Book recommendations from Organizing White Men for Collective Liberation
Fighting for Social Justice: The Power of Women of Color (a short timeline)
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