Forward Justice Action Network (FJAN) is a 501c4 organization that engages in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for laws and public policies that advance racial, social, and economic justice in the U.S. South.
Alongside our partners and constituents in Louisville, FJAN has been deeply involved in the people’s consent decree process and a leading participant in facilitating engagement in community listening sessions and community forums with the Department of Justice and other stakeholders to determine community harm and need in the LMPD public consent decree resolution.
As parties to this amicus brief, Forward Justice Action Network brings to bear a history of deep engagement in seeking racial and economic justice in Louisville, Kentucky and expertise in reducing harm to particularly Black and Brown communities from excessive and unconstitutional policing practices.
Constitutional Amendment 1 asks if you are in favor of amending Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Kentucky’s constitution already states that “every citizen of the United States” with Kentucky residency is eligible to vote in the state’s elections. Constitutional Amendment 1 is an attempt at voter intimidation and voter suppression.
In 2009, Kentucky Jobs with Justice held one of the only statewide Social Forums in the United States. This Forum was supported by grassroots activists, organizations, and communities from all across the Commonwealth.
As defined by the People’s Movement Assembly, “World Social Forums are semi-annual convergences that create open space for movements to share, connect, and strengthen beyond the boundaries of political parties, initiated in resistance to the World Economic Forum. The Social Movement Assembly was created to make and implement movement decisions within the World Social Forum. The Peoples Movement Assembly is a political methodology born from the Social Movement Assembly process and the United States Social Forum.”
We co-hosted the Kentucky Movement Assembly (KMA), alongside a powerful gathering of nearly 300 people from across Kentucky and surrounding southern states who are interested in grounding the South and building our collective power. Furthermore, we hosted planning meanings for the KMA all across Kentucky, including in Paducah and Berea.
Discussion topics at the KMA included mass incarceration, youth organizing, harm reduction, climate disasters, mutual aid, environmental justice, housing justice, tenant organizing, voting rights, immigration, and more!
Thank you to the Canopy Movement for this Synthesizer Report documenting the powerful KMA gathering of nearly 300 people from across Kentucky and surrounding southern states who believe in grounding the South and building our collective political power.
We hosted planning meanings for the KMA all across Kentucky throughout 2023, including in Berea, Covington, Morehead and Paducah.
In this report, you’ll see a synthesis of discussions focusing on mass incarceration, youth organizing, harm reduction, climate disasters, mutual aid, environmental justice, housing justice, tenant organizing, voting rights, immigration and more!
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