These every other 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 … Continued
Join the monthly Small Town & Rural Working Group calls! The Small Town & Rural Working Group comes from a long legacy in SONG to fight isolation and build power with our queer and trans folks across the South. We understand that the South is primarily rural and many of our folks are systematically ignored … Continued
Join SONG members from all around the Commonwealth for a chance to build relationships with Southern freedom fighters, share resources like plant medicine knowledge, and get plugged in with the work of queer and trans liberation! Please register to receive Zoom dial-in information. Contact Rebecca Keel (rebecca@songsouth.org) for more information. RSVP Here
What are the necessary skills and concepts to soak up in this moment of mass activism and organizing? Join SONG and our comrades this Sunday for the first installment of Skill Up for All: A workshop series on the fundamentals of Community Organizing and Direct Action Planning. We are starting with the basics: where to … Continued
Calling all queer white Southern kin. Our ancestors designed this terror. Our cousins are the white vigilantes chasing and murdering Black people and fighting tooth-and-nail to extend this racist regime. As white Southerners it has been long past time for all of us to come off the sidelines in this moment and play our role. … Continued
Join SONG members from across Georgia for our June Membership Meeting, Tuesday, June 9 from 6:30-8 PM EDT! We welcome all current and future SONG members in this space for the purpose of gaining a regional scan of SONG’s work in the South, plugging into our campaign strategy to #EndMoneyBail and pretrial detention across the … Continued
The Arts & Culture Working Group is a space for members across the region to support SONG organizationally to use art as an essential political education tool that can create deep connection with our communities. With the help of AgitArte, a community based grassroots arts organization, members learn how to develop an Arts & Culture … Continued
What are the necessary skills and concepts to soak up in this moment of mass activism and organizing? Join SONG and our comrades June 14th from 1-2:30pm ET/12-1:30pm CT for the second installment of Skill Up for All: A workshop series on the fundamentals of Community Organizing and Direct Action Planning! Last Sunday we are … Continued
If you are a new member of SONG, join our New Member Orientation call! This call is a chance to be in community with other new members as we visit the history of our founders, the methods in which we organize in the South, and an orientation to the infrastructure of this organization. This is … Continued
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 the strong regional reach queer and trans people across … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Join SONG members from all around the Commonwealth for a chance to build relationships with Southern freedom fighters, share resources like plant medicine knowledge, and get plugged in with the work of queer and trans liberation! Please register to receive Zoom dial-in information. Contact Rebecca Keel (rebecca@songsouth.org) for more information. RSVP Here
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.” - Gwendolyn Brooks Join us on Sunday, June 21, 2020, at 6-7:30 pm EST/5-6:30 CST for our June Regional Membership call. On this call we want to reflect on our learnings from Queer South Revival 2020 and … Continued
Join the monthly DigiCommz Working Group calls! The DigiCommz Working Group is a space for members across the region to help build capacity for SONG regionally and for our chapters and crews moving active campaign work. We'll be going over interviewing skills! It's a space for members who are moving communications or digital work in … Continued
Join the monthly Small Town & Rural Working Group calls! The Small Town & Rural Working Group comes from a long legacy in SONG to fight isolation and build power with our queer and trans folks across the South. We understand that the South is primarily rural and many of our folks are systematically ignored … Continued
Calling all queer white Southern kin. Our ancestors designed this terror. Our cousins are the white vigilantes chasing and murdering Black people and fighting tooth-and-nail to extend this racist regime. As white Southerners, it has been long past time for all of us to come off the sidelines in this moment and play our role. … Continued
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