Over the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd, members of Southerners On New Ground attended We Want Freedom: Resisting Criminalization in the Southeast, a regional gathering in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss the intersections of police violence, mass incarceration, unjust immigration…
This was a speech written by SONG member China Medel for a rally in opposition to anti-immigrant House Bill 318 in North Carolina.
My name is China Medel, I’m a member of Southerners on New Ground who has made North…
Uncovered Proposal to Place Immigration Agents in Fulton County Jails:
Jeopardizes Safety, Violates Federal Immigration Policies
Georgia #Not1More to Hold Press Conference Ahead of Commissioners’ Meeting
9:30am, Wednesday, October 7th – 141 Pryor St. SW, Atlanta
ATLANTA – The Georgia Not1More…
Audre Lorde taught us and we’ve experienced that, “there are no single-issue struggles because we do not live single-issue lives.” As organizers and leaders we are committed to our collective liberation and so our eyes, our minds, and our hearts…
On Thursday night, hundreds of thousands gathered across the country in living rooms, over laptops, and in front of televisions waiting for and anticipating executive action on immigration from President Obama. Together we held our breath, we held hands, and…
Check out SONG member Barbra Perez’s interview with Fusion about how transgender detainees are treated in immigration detention. You can check out the six-month investigative report Fusion did at http://interactive.fusion.net/trans/ where they found that 1 out of every 5 survivors…
The daily targeting of undocumented immigrants has not gone without resistance from our communities locally, regionally, and nationally. We have worked on individual deportation cases, shutdown Immigration and Custom Enforcements (ICE) detention centers, taken direct action on Congressional offices, and…
The criminalization of LGBTQ people comes in many forms. One form is the profiling, harassment, and arrests of undocumented immigrants. In places all around the South, if you go to the store for groceries and run a stop sign you…
Dear SONG members and supporters:
This work is hard. Even though we know our members and our people are the reason for the work and the solution to our problems, on a hard day the best of us can be…
