Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Template:TOCnestleft Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is a surviving branch of the old Communist Party USA front National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. It is connected also to the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
Allies
Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression joined in coalition with other like minded allied organizations on many other justice struggles including LSURG, Louisville Fairness Campaign, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Jobs with Justice, and Black Lives Matter Movement.[1]
Felony riot charges
Louisville Democratic Socialists of America circa September 27 2020.
If you are able, join the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Press Conference right now at the Square. Support protesters charged w felony ‘riot’ including Rep Attica Scott, Movement mother Rhonda Mathis, Rep Scott’s daughter Ashanti Scott, Shameka Parrish-Wright and others. Demand Justice for Breonna and End to police repression of protests.
Leadership 2017
Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression leadersip, 2017.
- Barbara Boyd - Chair
- Tia Edison - First Chair
- Wayne Shemwell - Second Chair
- Ike Thacker - Third Chair
- Antonio Wickliffe - Treasurer
- Robyn Bellamy - Secretary
- DeNita Wright - Assistant Secretary[2]
Kentucky Alliance co-chairs
In 2009 K. A. Owens, Kathleen Parks, David Lott were Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression co-chairs.[3]
Barber speech
Rev. Dr. William Barber II’s keynote speech at the 10th annual Unity Dinner at Louisville Gardens Sept. 29 2007, bore the title, “Mobilizing Action to Challenge the Current Wave of Racism & Political Repression.”
Barber is "a prominent mobilizer/organizer of mass action, especially in his adopted home state of North Carolina".
The Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression organized the dinner, which was catered by Expressions of You, an African-American caterer, and included various musical selections by area artists.
Based in Durham, Barber is a renowned scholar, speaker, and activist who leads the North Carolina state NAACP and participated in the National Reconciliation Task Force.
He is one of the leaders of a 70-group Peoples Agenda coalition that operates and advocates statewide, and which in February 2007, coordinated what members called “H K on J:” Historic Thousands on Jones Street (Jones Street is the location of the state capitol in Raleigh), in which the marching “K” (thousands) — numbering at least 2,000 — presented a 14-point Peoples Agenda to their state government.[4]
References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [ http://thebridge.typepad.com/ The Political Bridge thebridge/louisville-neighborhoods/ November 04, 2009 Famed Social Activist and Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to Speak at the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression’s 12th Annual Unity Dinner]
- ↑ Forsooth November 2007, p 1,2