Southerners on New Ground

Make It Rain Working Group Call
2020-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
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)
RSVP Here

Spokescouncil Call
2020-11-17 19:00 - 20:30
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)

Language Justice Working Group Call
2020-11-18 07:00 - 21:00
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)
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Political Education Working Group Call
2020-11-19 18:30 - 20:00
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)

Free from Fear Campaign Call
2020-11-24 19:00 - 21:00
These once a month calls are a vehicle for member-leaders organizing SONG campaigns across the South to talk to one another, share strategies and tactics, assess the conditions we are facing regionally, share out core organizing training and tools, troubleshoot challenges that are arising, build trust, and strengthen relationships. The Free From Fear regional calls happen on the 1st Tuesday of each month.
Contact: Jade Brooks (jade@songsouth.org).

Staff Off - Winter Break
2020-12-14 - 2021-01-12

Nashville, TN Chapter Meeting
2021-06-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-06-14 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-06-21 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-06-28 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-07-05 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-07-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-07-19 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-07-26 20:00 - 22:00 and 5 more dates
Join the SONG Nashville chapter for weekly Monday meetings from 7-9pm CT.
Contact: Rome@southernersonnewground.org

SONG Staff Summer Break
2021-06-14 - 2021-06-21

Squad Up, Skill Up, Slay Organizing School - Knoxville, TN
2021-07-22 - 2021-07-24

Richmond, VA Chapter Meeting
2021-07-27 18:30 - 20:00
Join SONG Richmond’s crew for their July open monthly meeting on July 27th from 6:30-8pm ET. This meeting will be a virtual/in-person hybrid so RSVP below to let us know how you want to participate!
RSVP Here

White People & Money in the Movement for Abolition - Nashville, TN
2021-07-28 19:00 - 20:30
The SONG Nashville Race Traitors discussion group about white people and money is meeting on Zoom on Wednesday, July 28th from 6-7:30 pm CT. They’ll be talking about embodied giving vs giving out of guilt. This space is designed for white people but is open and accountable to BIPOC. This call is open to all SONG Nahsbulle members and supporters!
Register Here

Squad Up, Skill Up, Slay Organizing School - Richmond, VA
2021-07-29 - 2021-07-31

SONG Cunty Country Fair Regional Membership Call
2021-09-27 18:00 - 20:00
Hot Queer Summer is coming to an end and as mornings get chillier and pumpkins scents fill the air, we invite you to join us on Monday, September 27th, 6-8pm ET/5-7pm CT for our SONG Regional Membership Call: Cunty Country Fair. Cum one, cum all!
The SONG Cuntry fair is in town for all SONG members, longtime and new. This call will be a time to connect with SONG’s rowdy, queer Southern members and our Forever SONG fam. As a region we will take time to skill up together, and dig into our political histories to shape our future. We’ll be mapping our political landscape with the lens of where we are in the South. During the call we will have various “carnival rides”(breakout groups) where we will dig into some different topics such as: our campaign assessment, conflict transformation, and base building. Hope to see you at the Cunty Country fair!
Register Here!

SONG closed - fall break
2023-11-23 08:00 - 2023-11-24 17:00

SONG Closed Winter Break
2023-12-19 - 2024-01-09

SONG New Member Orientation
2024-08-14 18:00 - 20:00
Join us for SONG’s New Member Orientation on Wednesday, August 14th, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST!
We’d love to welcome you to join us as we visit the history of our co-founders and the methods in which we organize in the South and provide an orientation to the infrastructure of this organization. If you cannot join, please let us know, and then we’ll email the notes or a recording.
This is the space to bring questions, curiosity, time, talents, and visions that focus on how we organize together.

Register at https://songsouth.info/AugustNMO

SONG Nashville Black Queer August Squad Up
2024-08-27 18:00 - 20:00
Write to our LGBTQ political kin in South Central and show CoreCivic that they have community and eyes on the outside + learn about our emerging campaign efforts to protect our kindred under attack.

Register for zoom @ bit.ly/3STrBnI

SONG Richmond August Full Bawdy Meeting
2024-08-27 18:30 - 20:00
This month’s meeting will include a zine-making workshop and a discussion of Black August’s history. We’ll also share updates on the local work happening as part of SONG’s Free From Fear cohort, our application for Richmond zine fest, and more!
6:30-8 pm
RSVP: https://songsouth.info/rvafullbawdy
