Category: Free From Fear
“We woke up this morning with our minds stayed on freedom.” – Woke Up This Morning by the Staple Singers
We love you. We see you. We have always been each others salvation in times of uncertainty and crisis.
We…
Category: Free From Fear
Category: Free From Fear
Right now over 250 law enforcement officials from across the country are gathered at the Billy Graham Center, a right-wing Christian Evangelical institution in the South, at a retreat focused on addressing “the spiritual needs” of police officers. We,…
Category: Free From Fear
Across the country and in the South we recognize the importance of this political moment. We recognize how dangerous and rampant the anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-woman, anti-trans, and anti-queer rhetoric is this election cycle. All spring and summer SONG members,…
Category: Free From Fear
TRACK LIST
The Road (feat. Black Bear) – A Tribe Called Red
PohLease – KAMAU
BULLETS – KAYTRANADA
Un Canto a Mi Tierra – Quantic and His Combo Barbaro
Skwod – Nadia Rose
Adios Afrodita – Alvaro Diaz
Homeward Bound…
Category: Free From Fear
The North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) – the local chapter of the dangerous police fraternity that works to prevent law enforcement accountability – is hiding away in a hotel in the mountains of Western NC this weekend for…
Category: Free From Fear
The Tragedies and Violence of Our Times Will Be Met with the Fierceness of Our Rage and Grace
This year has been like a never-ending game of battleship. The political ground is shifting before our feet. The universe itself has…
Category: Free From Fear
On July 13, 2016, members of Black Lives Matter Atlanta (BLM ATL) organized civil disobedience to amplify the call for long standing local demands in light of the police killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and Jerry Williams. Heavy police…
Category: Free From Fear
This Fourth of July Southerners On New Ground is holding Crush the Confederacy events and actions in 5 states throughout the South — in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi – to call for a type of independence that…
Category: Free From Fear
State legislators made nervous by the People’s Clapback and grassroots organizing from LGBTQ communities since March are trying to back alley their way out of the backlash from their Hate Bill 2 with new proposed legislation to “fix” HB2, but…
Category: Free From Fear
This morning the Supreme Court of the United States tied at 4-4 upholding the injunction on DAPA and expanded DACA. Nearly simultaneously, we got the news that an officer involved in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore was …
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