Overview of KSEC
State Network
Become a Member
Our structure is currently under construction. We are planning on ratifying these changes in the fall and soon after will adjust our website and content to reflect those changes.
One of our primary goals is to foster networks of people who care about developing the resilience of their communities. Whatever that looks like! Organizing work takes so many forms. No matter your interest area, we want to give you the space to grow it.
Fill out our member form to connect, whether you're ready to be active or not.
General Membership:
A space for young Kentuckians to plan, problem solve, and dream up community organizing goals. While we aim to center youth voices that are erased and left out, there is a place for everyone in this work. Movement elders, alumni, and community members are an key part in empowering and building knowledge.
Membership is open to all.
Delegates:
Community, school, and org Representatives to strengthen statewide movements and actions.
If you would like your campus organization (high school or college) to be a member of our network check out the campus affiliates page!
Alliances:
Like people, we're not looking for perfection. We want to stand in principled unity with folks who want to create a better world. Again, it's going to take all of us.
Working Groups
These groups have different roles that fit folks who are low capacity or who want to be more active members.
Organizing WG
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The purpose of this team is:
Goals: Leadership Development, Mentorship, Cohorts, Learning Circles, Workshops/Trainings, Organizing Skills and Political Education, Working Group Support, Campaigns and Strategy, Mobilization Pushes The purpose of the organizing team is to steward and oversee the training, peer to peer education, and leadership development central to the goal of KSEC. This team will additionally bottom line coordination of campaign development and outreach that the KSEC network is plugged into. |
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Our strategy for achieving this purpose is: Building out a team that will curate a core set of curriculum we want to focus on, create a peer to peer education model for these trainings, host these events, and bring new people in to train through a train the trainer program. This will build out a leadership development and political education model that can be easily recreated by folks in our network as needed.
A key element to this model is breaking down the colonialist mindset of having to be an ‘expert’ to facilitate training, while still preparing folks enough to feel confident exploring these new skills.
Bringing members into this team, reviewing this document as a full team, talking with the community building working group about how our work overlaps and works together, curating curriculum together, and building out this program!!
A key element to this model is breaking down the colonialist mindset of having to be an ‘expert’ to facilitate training, while still preparing folks enough to feel confident exploring these new skills.
Bringing members into this team, reviewing this document as a full team, talking with the community building working group about how our work overlaps and works together, curating curriculum together, and building out this program!!
Building Community WG
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The purpose of this team is: To create space for members and community to fuel their spirits and souls with togetherness, solidarity, and friendship; and to create space for members and community to share in joy, artistic expression, and cultural work.
“If it is not soulful, it is not strategic. Our vision should nurture our cultures, souls and spirits, through song and ceremony, through practice and play. Our movements must be irresistible and rooted in the wisdom of our ancestries. We should aim to create the culture that can hold us through both the best and hardest times—so that as we struggle, we do not need to seek respite via the trappings of consumerisms and the privileges of empire. This is how we heal from the crisis of disconnection. This is what it means to decolonize.” - Movement Generation Just Transition |
Goals: Setting up structure to create space for joy, conflict resolution, care, and deep relationship + base building.
Potential areas of work:
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Culture of Care
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Joy, Art, and Culture
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Our strategy for achieving this purpose is:
Bring in current network/members that are interested in doing culture + care work as an initial team to assess priorities and what we would like to start with versus what we should build up to. Together we will host local and casual get-togethers based on people’s interests, needs, resources, and skills. Could look like:
Bring in current network/members that are interested in doing culture + care work as an initial team to assess priorities and what we would like to start with versus what we should build up to. Together we will host local and casual get-togethers based on people’s interests, needs, resources, and skills. Could look like:
- At home get-togethers - rotating hosting schedule and activities determined by group based on interests and the host’s skills/resources
- Community Care Saturdays
- Online hanging sessions, statewide carpools
- Outside get-togethers in nature, parks, etc.
- Prioritize being together, not to always “get work done” and even when we do come together to work, it’s centered around feeding the soul (potlucks, good times)
- Let people’s interests guide them into teams within the working group. Those teams emerge based on the teams value of importance
We want to support you.
If there's a project you're interested in doing we would love to give you space to start it. We may not have capacity to do tasks within the project, but if we can connect you to people, grants, resources we will do it. There's tons of space for creativity and sharing space at our events and programming. Our priorities are:
- Sharpening skills that will serve you no matter where you want to go
- Creating community and joy
- Providing space to dig deep into the things you care about in ways that feel valuable to you
