Southern Movement Assembly Solidarity with Palestine - #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow

Watch this month’s #StateOfTheSouth Call to explore ways we can overcome, resist, and build tools within our groups/organizations/formations in the South for communal care, balance, and sustainability. When we converge, it is an act of resistance to isolation. Our liberation starts with acknowledgement that we are stronger together than by ourselves.

The SMA Monthly General Membership Assembly Calls are getting a new boost! SMA #StateOfTheSouth Regional Monthly Calls advance the Southern Freedom Movement in the 21st Century.

The National Council of Elders, Barbara Smith, Zoharah Simmons, with guest Dr. Fouad Moughrabi educate members of the Southern Movement Assembly about the ongoing attacks on Palestine.

Learn about the purpose and function of the Southern Movement Assembly, lessons from the Soulstice process, and organizing opportunities for next year. Invite your organizational family, assembly crew, and community base to get plugged into the Southern Freedom Movement!

Watch The final edition of The Art of Strategy: Building Solidarity Across Generations! Our featured special guest vet, Mandy Carter, helps us to bridge the gap as we discuss the art and strategy of connection. Joining alongside her in conversation this evening will be George Holmes (they/them), Program Assistant at Amplify Georgia Collaborative and Organizer and Facilitator of Southern Jam and Lorie Bryant, Membership Outreach at Southerners on New Ground (SONG).

This month’s The Art of Strategy: Building Solidarity Across Generations featuring Candie Carawan and Gloria Aneb House; supported by two young organizers and fellow musicians Jules Kessler, Co-Coordinator of The STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) and Paul Newman, Community Organizer with SpiritHouse Inc. During this edition we will dive into how art and culture has played a meaningful role in the movement throughout history as a medium to share our experiences, connect and reflect the struggles facing our communities, and ultimately move and motivate people to action! This double feature brings us the tales of two movement veterans and how artvisim has been interwoven into their fight for freedom from an early age on into times of today.

The Southern Movement Assembly is taking a year of Soulstice; a time for Expansion, Change, and Action. We believe that the SMA, like many formations, should give significant time and attention to how we are growing in relation to our people and our principles. We have a responsibility to learn and reimagine our structures in alignment with our commitment to address the urgent movement needs of this time. We recognize that in order to EXPAND, we need to be CLEAR; in order to CHANGE, we need to be ROOTED in our foundations and history; in order to ACT, we need a collective PLAN and a PROCESS FOR IMPLEMENTATION.

This month's conversations features International human rights activist, warrior, defender, and advocate for justice, equity, and fairness - Glory Kilanko - has committed her life’s work to working for the rights of the oppressed, poor, and disfranchised majority. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Women Watch Afrika, Inc. (WWA), an Atlanta based international non-profit social justice organization, she works towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination and health disparity against women and girls and the acculturation of immigrants and refugees arriving to the U.S. from 23 African nations. Read more about her extraordinary story below. This conversation will also be joined by Emery Wright, the Executive Director of Project South, who has worked globally for decades within Pan-African movement formations and Preye Cobham, Legal Director with Women Watch Afrika and a governance council representative with the Southern Movement Assembly.

From June through September tune in for a monthly inter-generational dialogue series with movement leaders connecting our past to our present. During a time when we are under attack on multiple fronts, it is important that we act in solidarity and arm ourselves with sound political education and pragmatic strategies to advance us in the struggle for liberation! This conversation features activist, public intellectual, author, and scholar Loretta J. Ross. Ross started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s, working at the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (formerly National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, until retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism.