Staff Mid-Year Break – August 31st-September 6th
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Events for September 2020
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Black Queer August Political Education Series
Black Queer August Political Education Series
Join SONG for a three-part Black Queer August Political Education series from 6-8pm EST on August 14th (closed session), August 21st, and August 31st. Together we will study the histories, traditions, and themes of Black August from a Black Queer and Trans abolitionist lens. We will cover topics including George Jackson and the origins of … Continued
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Nashville, TN Chapter Meeting
Nashville, TN Chapter Meeting
Join the Nashville chapter of Southerners on New Ground for an open membership meeting Monday, August 31st at 7PM CT. This virtual zoom meet-up will be a chance to build relationships with Southern freedom fighters, learn about the practice of abolition, share resources, and get plugged in with the work for Queer and Trans liberation! … Continued
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New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
Every Tuesday, 6-8pm CT. Contact New Orleans fellows Toni and Ra for information about the meetings!
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Free From Fear Campaign Call
Free From Fear Campaign Call
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
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Virginia Race Traitors Call
Virginia Race Traitors Call
RSVP today for our first Virginia based Race Traitor call, happening this Saturday, September 5th, 4:30-6 PM on Zoom. Virginia Race Traitors is a series of calls focused on SONGs white membership in Virginia and open to all members across race. We will focus on white SONG members’ role in antiracist and abolitionist freedom struggles. … Continued
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Race Traitor Summer Series
Race Traitor Summer Series
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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New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
Every Tuesday, 6-8pm CT. Contact New Orleans fellows Toni and Ra for information about the meetings!
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Language Justice 101 + Creating Multilingual Spaces Call
Language Justice 101 + Creating Multilingual Spaces Call
Join Cenzontle Language Justice cooperative on September 9th 5-6pm ET/ 4-5 pm CT for a language justice training. Cenzontle is a worker-owned Language justice cooperative based in Asheville NC. The revolution will be multilingual! We must connect and build with each other across language. We invite SONG chapters and SONG members who want to learn more about … Continued
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Regional Membership Call (co-hosted by SONG Power)
Regional Membership Call (co-hosted by SONG Power)
As we enter the fall season amidst this ongoing pandemic, we know that our survival is deeply rooted in our people holding each other up and building networks of care. We've seen, through the uprisings, the beauty and strength of our collective organizing! Let's continue in the footsteps our ancestors and sow a New South … Continued
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Arts + Culture Working Group Call
Arts + Culture Working Group Call
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 crew locally, … Continued
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Black Nashville Assembly
Black Nashville Assembly
In the spirit of Black power, SONG members, and coalition members come together to build an agenda that will serve the needs of Black people in Nashville. Join the Black Delegation of the Nashville People’s Budget Coalition on September 12th at 3:30 pm CT to build community consensus and plan collective action. RSVP Here
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Virginia Statewide Membership Call
Virginia Statewide Membership Call
Join SONG Virginia members from all around the Commonwealth for a chance to build relationships with Southern freedom fighters, learn about the practice of abolition, share resources like plant medicine knowledge, and get plugged in with the work for queer and trans liberation! This virtual meet up will happen every other Saturday 4-6PM EST via … Continued
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Lynchburg, VA Chapter Meeting
Lynchburg, VA Chapter Meeting
Join SONG Lynchburg, VA on Sunday, September 13th at 6:00 PM ET to discuss local issues, statewide actions we can support, and spend time bringing our knowledge to the table on the topics of police and prison abolition. This meeting will happen every other Sunday on Zoom. Register here
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New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
Every Tuesday, 6-8pm CT. Contact New Orleans fellows Toni and Ra for information about the meetings!
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Language Justice Working Group Call
Language Justice Working Group Call
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
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Richmond, VA Chapter Meeting (Virtual Meeting)
Richmond, VA Chapter Meeting (Virtual Meeting)
Join the interest meeting for the new SONG Richmond chapter! This meeting will be virtual, come out to find some kin. The goals of these meetings are to: build connection and community with local members, discuss SONG, chapter-hood and the benefits of chapter formations. Contact Jasmine Leeward for more information. RSVP Here
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DigiCommz Working Group Call
DigiCommz Working Group Call
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. DigiCommz aims to identify members who are moving communications or digital work in our membership and support their leadership … Continued
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Richmond, VA Chapter Meeting (Outdoor Meeting)
Richmond, VA Chapter Meeting (Outdoor Meeting)
Join the interest meeting for the new SONG Richmond chapter! This meeting will be outdoors at Smith Peters Park, come out to find some kin in SONG. The goals of these meetings are to: build connection and community with local members, discuss SONG, chapter-hood and the benefits of chapter formations. Contact Jasmine Leeward for more … Continued
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Make it Rain Working Group Call
Make it Rain Working Group Call
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 … Continued
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New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
Every Tuesday, 6-8pm CT. Contact New Orleans fellows Toni and Ra for information about the meetings!
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Arts + Culture Working Group Call
Arts + Culture Working Group Call
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 crew locally, … Continued
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Defund the Police Crash Course – Part 2
El 19 de junio de 1865, las tropas de la Unión llegaron a Galveston, Texas para hacer cumplir la Proclamación de Emancipación. Aunque la gente esclavizada ya era libre legalmente, muchas seguían trabajado en Texas y en el sur durante dos años después de la declaración de Lincoln. En el mismo sentido, aun siendo legalmente … Continued
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Virginia Statewide Membership Call
Virginia Statewide Membership Call
Join SONG Virginia members from all around the Commonwealth for a chance to build relationships with Southern freedom fighters, learn about the practice of abolition, share resources like plant medicine knowledge, and get plugged in with the work for queer and trans liberation! This virtual meet up will happen every other Saturday 4-6PM EST via … Continued
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Squad Up, Skill Up, Slay: Street Fighter Series
Squad Up, Skill Up, Slay: Street Fighter Series
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, … Continued
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Lynchburg, VA Chapter Meeting
Lynchburg, VA Chapter Meeting
Join SONG Lynchburg, VA on Sunday, September 27th at 6:00 PM ET to discuss local issues, statewide actions we can support, and spend time bringing our knowledge to the table on the topics of police and prison abolition. This meeting will happen every other Sunday on Zoom. Register here
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New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
New Orleans, LA Chapter Meeting
Every Tuesday, 6-8pm CT. Contact New Orleans fellows Toni and Ra for information about the meetings!
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Virginia Race Traitors Call
Virginia Race Traitors Call
RSVP today for our first Virginia based Race Traitor call, happening this Sunday, October 4th, 4:30-6 PM on Zoom. Virginia Race Traitors is a series of calls focused on SONGs white membership in Virginia and open to all members across race. We will focus on white SONG members’ role in antiracist and abolitionist freedom struggles. … Continued
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Race Traitor Summer Series
Race Traitor Summer Series
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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