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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…

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SONG is recognizing its inheritance from the life of Leslie Feinberg who died recently.  Who among us LGBTQ people has not felt more freedom and a larger world from reading Stone Butch Blues?  In the journey of SONG, s/he was…

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This week, we saw SONG family showing up across the South to show, not just tell, that Black lives matter. Today we say thank you to everyone for making Wednesday’s work in Atlanta, in particular, possible!  Several members of SONG’s…

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http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/11105 September 15th 2014 After vowing in June that he would take executive action “before the end of the summer” to stop the senseless and inhumane rate of deportations under his administration, President Obama broke his promise this Saturday and…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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For decades the LGBTQ community has been punished for the core “crime” of existing and surviving in our genders and sexualities. Despite harsh legislation and social stigma, we built a LGBTQ liberation movement to protect ourselves, to survive and claim…

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To: Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus RE: LGBTQ specific needs in Obama’s upcoming Executive Order on Immigration Dear Congressional Equality Caucus Co-Chairs: Over 50 other LGBTQ organizations have been mobilizing our groups this year for LGBTQ specific immigration policy needs. As…

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The Georgia Not1More Campaign is currently organizing to stop local law enforcement in the state of Georgia from prolonging people’s detention on the sole basis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers.  We know that winning this goal will drastically…