Personal tools
You are here: Home KFTC's Blog Archive 2009 May 05 Concert for Pete's Sake / Voting Rights in Georgetown
Subscribe to our blog!
RSS 2.0

Enter your email address to receive emails when this blog is updated:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Powered by Quills
Appalachian Transition
Topics
Topics in Detail…
 
Archives
Find us on Facebook

Join KFTC!

 

Concert for Pete's Sake / Voting Rights in Georgetown

by Dave Newton last modified September-08-2009 10:50 AM

   In celebration of Pete Seeger's birthday and in recognition of under-represented communities across the nation, Georgetown College students in Scott County organized a concert and  speak-out today on a range of issues.  KFTC members attended, raising awareness of our Canary Project and the campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.  Over 150 students and community members attended in-all.

gIMG_0815    gIMG_0820

gIMG_0829    gIMG_0824

 

   Because Senator Damon Thayer of Georgetown is such a critical vote on the Voting Rights issue, we put a lot of emphasis on getting people to sign postcards to Thayer or to sit down and write a letter to him as a constituent.  Sixty people signed postcards and almost two dozen wrote letters.

 

gIMG_0833    gIMG_0803

gIMG_0868    gIMG_0810

 

   Many Georgetown members are eager to start a series of KFTC community meetings in their city later this month to start laying the groundwork for a powerful Voting Rights campaign and more.