Working Groups
Language Justice Working Group Call
November 18, 2020 @ 7:00 am - 9:00 pm
The Language Justice Working Group is a space for members across the region, bilingual or monolingual, to help SONG strategize, build and fortify our values around creating authentic communication across race, culture, and difference. This is imperative for movement building. Language justice as a framework allows us to explicitly name the grief associated with the loss of our ancestral languages, as a result of colonization and imperialism as well as heal and advocate for our inherent right to communicate in our most authentic form.
Contact: Monse Ramirez (monse@songsouth.org) and Naushaba Patel (naushaba@songsouth.org)
Join the monthly Make It Rain Working Group calls!
The Make It Rain Working Group is a space for members across the region to help SONG fundraise and skill up their development skills! Fundraising is so important to help our organization have campaigns, convenings, and have a strong regional reach queer and trans people across the South deserve. Contact: Britney Nesbit (britney@songsouth.org)
The Political Education Working Group is a space for SONG staff, SONG members and Forever SONG family to identify the current political education needs for our membership. We know that grassroots organizing work requires intense study in rigor, and this space will help us continually provide tools and curricula for our membership.
Contact: Angela Henderson (angela@songsouth.org)
We are living through and calling for transformation as protests against the system of policing have kindled fires of rage and solidarity globally. Our abolitionist vision is being embraced and grows with each person fed up, activated, fired up, and ready to fight for queer liberation.
In order to win our fights, we must work, move and build in formation! We must lean into our collective power and learn from the wisdom of our movement leaders and ancestors. The mandate calls us to work strategically to strengthen our power and birth the world we’re dreaming. To see our people free of shackles and cages with an abundance of Black joy and queer and trans liberation is the charge!
Join us every other Sunday for our bi-monthly Squad Up, Skill Up, Slay: Street Fighter Series to learn community organizing and direct action planning fundamentals. The series is for brand new organizers and folks wanting to refresh their skills alike. To gain insight on how to squad up through base-building, direct action planning and more join us as we skill-up and prepare to slay in our respective communities! Each module is intended to strengthen our disability justice and language justice politic and practice. We’ll have interpretation between Spanish, English and ASL.
We welcome all folks who are want to build power and make Alabama a more just, equitable and beautiful place for all people, including Black, Indigenous and people of color, queer and trans people and working class people. Register for our weekly meetings If you have any questions, email: songmgm@gmail.com
We welcome all folks who are want to build power and make Alabama a more just, equitable and beautiful place for all people, including Black, Indigenous and people of color, queer and trans people and working class people. Register for our weekly meetings If you have any questions, email: songmgm@gmail.com
We welcome all folks who are want to build power and make Alabama a more just, equitable and beautiful place for all people, including Black, Indigenous and people of color, queer and trans people and working class people. Register for our weekly meetings If you have any questions, email: songmgm@gmail.com
We welcome all folks who are want to build power and make Alabama a more just, equitable and beautiful place for all people, including Black, Indigenous and people of color, queer and trans people and working class people. Register for our weekly meetings If you have any questions, email: songmgm@gmail.com
The SONG Spokescouncil is a longtime dream of the organization. It consists of member leader representatives from each chapter, working group, board, current fellowship cohort, and ForeverSONG family. The Spokescouncil is designed to be a member-led formation for making decisions, sharpening our collective tactics, actions, and work across the region.
To Learn More Contact: Carlin Rushing (carlin@songsouth.org)
The Political Education Working Group is a space for SONG staff, SONG members and Forever SONG family to identify the current political education needs for our membership. We know that grassroots organizing work requires intense study in rigor, and this space will help us continually provide tools and curricula for our membership.
Contact: Angela Henderson (angela@songsouth.org)