PBN’s Kentucky State Alliance partners are working hard to plan an exciting and fruitful Voter Empowerment Training scheduled for July 25-27, 2008.
Staff and volunteers from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Kentucky Jobs with Justice, including street & community captains, and volunteers and staff from organizational allies will come together for three days of education and training toward a shared understanding up the PBN-KY approach to voter empowerment.
Sessions led by Kentucky Community Leaders, as well as leaders from PBN partners in New Mexico who will travel to Kentucky as a part of PBN’s emphasis on peer-to-peer learning and resource sharing, will offer crucial relationship-building activities, as well as concrete opportunities to learn about:
- integration of orgaqnizing and voter empowerment;
- the difference between the PBN/KY State Alliance approach and classic/partisan campaigns;
- the value-added of Pushback Network and the Kentucky Pushback Alliance for diverse, local — both rural and urban — organizing, social justice, and voter empowerment groups, initiatives, and campaigns;
- specific strategies for working effectively with immigrant communities around voter empowerment;
- effective voter empowerment strategies in rural communities; and
- working respectfully and effectively across lines of difference (inlcuding race, class and age).
Dozens of organizers are expected from around the state and Training Planners Dave Newton, Darnell Johnson and Lisa Abbott say attendees will leave the Training with the skills and confidence to engage in effective, non-partisan voter outreach.
This electoral season is shaping up to be the best yet for in affording KY communities the opportunity to make each action count both at home and throughout their state!
