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Last week, Nex Benedict, an indigenous non-binary 16-year old from Oklahoma died after being attacked by 3 teens at their school. This attack was preceded by what Nex’s grandmother described as “sustained bullying” by peers at their school with no…

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[ENGLISH BELOW] Siendo una organización sureña que hace 25 años trabaja por la liberación, SONG es responsable a nuestra base y la región. Somos lxs expertxs en nuestras comunidades con respecto a qué es lo que se necesita para cambiar…

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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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 Our enemies have waged battles in our backyards but not without our organizing and our outright refusal to live without our desire nor embody their shame. Our defiance and our desire has been our survival and our resistance. Our longing…

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On July 13, 2016, members of Black Lives Matter Atlanta (BLM ATL) organized civil disobedience to amplify the call for long standing local demands in light of the police killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and Jerry Williams. Heavy police…

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This Fourth of July Southerners On New Ground is holding Crush the Confederacy events and actions in 5 states throughout the South — in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi – to call for a type of independence that…

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We know that this “bathroom bill” moment calls for us to be bolder and reach farther than ever before as conservative state legislators go after our people all across the South. We’re working to counter the Confederate Spring we saw…

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SONG’s first Free From Fear campaign was officially launched in Durham, North Carolina, on January 17, 2015 by SONG members, member leaders and staff. We set out to build local and regional power and capacity in order to make needed…