Racial Justice
KFTC is working for a day when discrimination is wiped out of our laws, habits, and hearts.
Cassia Herron: In the wake of century-old violence, our task is to organize
What we saw last night in Louisville and what we’ve seen across the country is folks tired of being ignored. Police brutality and misconduct are a century-old issue that reflects our country’s grotesque and murderous beginnings.
Empower Kentucky Leadership Network digs into Race-Class Narrative with JaNaé Bates
The Empower Kentucky Leadership Network–an ongoing cohort of 40 Kentuckians committed to building a stronger movement for climate and just transition–continues to grow and learn through monthly webinars and peer coaching calls.
NKY chapter hosts DACA and immigrant rights discussion
On March 26, the Northern Kentucky chapter cohosted a zoom video conversation about immigration rights. The call focused on the status of the DACA (Deferred Action for Child Arrivals) program, the challenges facing the local immigrant community and how that fits into the unique moment we are in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Voting Rights EO Decision Tree
Decision tree to use in the field to help someone determine if Governor Andy Beshear's Executive Order restoring voting rights to 140,000 Kentuckians applies to them.
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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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