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10 Lessons Learned From the Black Mamas Bail Out Action [CLICK HERE FOR SPANISH TRANSLATION] 1. Putting our organizing practice into action. At SONG, our organizing practice has long been based in love, longing, and desire across class, race, gender…

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Dear SONG family and friends, Twelve years ago, I unknowingly started a journey toward finding chosen family and a political home. As a queer man from an immigrant family, I was cutting my political teeth doing work around immigrant rights,…

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SONG’s Free From Fear campaign in Durham launched in January 2015 as part of a regional campaign effort to demand an end to profiling and state violence against people of color and LGBTQ people in southern towns and cities. The…

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Across the South countless statewide bills have been introduced that spread viscious lies and myths about transgender people, queer people, and LGB people who fall along a gender spectrum, either by appearance or behavior, not deemed within, “a natural order…

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Over the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd, members of Southerners On New Ground attended We Want Freedom: Resisting Criminalization in the Southeast, a regional gathering in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss the intersections of police violence, mass incarceration, unjust immigration…

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We are Alabama SONG. We live in the Deep South; you know, where the black dirt is at and where some folks are scared to come visit because our interstates are littered with confederate flags flying high as New York…