S.O.N.G.

WE’VE MOVED!!

southernersonnewground — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:39:34 +0000

HEY Y’ALL:

WE HAVE MOVED! OUR BLOG HAS MERGED WITH OUR WEBSITE–CHECK US OUT AT:

WWW.SOUTHERNERSONNEWGROUND.ORG

SONG Campout

southernersonnewground — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:49:15 +0000

FEELING LIKE YOU NEED SOME…
GOOD POLITICAL TALK?
TIME WITH YOUR KIDS AROUND LGBTQ FAMILY?
HEALING? REST? VISIONARY COMRADES?
INTER-GENERATIONAL CIRCLES OF ACTIVISTS?
TIME FOR THE SONG CAMPOUT AGAIN!
(PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!!!!)

Southerners On New Ground (SONG) Announces

Our Spring Campout!

Goldhead State Park, KeyStone Heights, FL (just outside Jacksonville, FL) - Hello SONG Family! It is time for our Spring Campout Again! We are so lucky to have some SONG members in Florida hosting us in Northern Florida this Spring! THE DATES ARE: FRIDAY, APRIL 6-8, 2007. We will gather for building connections and relationships, healing, fun, and talking politics. Just think: a whole group of folks united around building a world without racism, classism, gender oppression, homophobia, and transphobia!!!! (What could be more fun?) The majority of SONG’s members are Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans folks who want to bring their whole selves into their work for liberation. At our gatherings, straight-identified allies are also welcome. If you believe in the vision of SONG, you are more than invited! Don’t know much about SONG? You are still very welcome!!! (Read below for more info about us!)

Where is this campout gonna be?
In a beautiful part of Northern Florida, complete with trails, swimming holes, and beautiful weather! Not far from the beach. For more info: Check out: www.floridastateparks.org/goldhead/default.cfm.

How do I register?
Please send in the mail to SONG, PO BOX 268, Durham, NC 27702, the following:

Contact Info (Name, Address, Phone, Email, Best Way to Reach You)
$25 fee (that is all it costs! The fees go to SONG to help reserve the campsites)
Do you have any accessibility needs? Mobility needs? Anything else we should know?
Are you planning on bringing any children? (MOST WELCOME!)
Can you bring all the gear you will need? (Tents, food to cook and share, sleeping bags, etc.) Sometimes folks can bring extras, if they know other folk are short on stuff

NOTE: If you do not want to camp, but want to rent a cabin–that is definitely possible! However you have to contact the park directly yourself (website above) ALSO–everyone brings their own food, and tries to bring other food to share!!!!!!!!!

Once you register, we will be in touch about more details!!!! Please register early if you can!!!!!!!!!!

Other Questions? Contact Paulina Hernandez at Paulina.her@hotmail.com or call our office ~ 919.667.1362

Day Of Truthtelling…Durham, NC

southernersonnewground — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:49:24 +0000

Hey all…SONG is a Coalition Partner for this…check it out!!!

For all those who know that “it is better to speak”

A CALL TO ACTION

Creating a World without Sexual Violence
National Day of Truthtelling

April 28th, 2007
Durham, North Carolina

For all who ARE survivors of sexual violence/
For all who choose to BELIEVE survivors of sexual violence/
For all who KNOW WE CAN end rape culture/

join us on April 28th, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina, as we come together-across divisions and disempowering silences-to create a world full of the safety, possibility, dignity, justice, and peace that we all deserve. Stand with us as we dare to imagine a world free from sexual violence and ALL forms of oppression.

Meet us in Durham to speak, teach, learn, demonstrate, and tell the truth. Together, WE can make this world a reality!!!

Questions? Contact us at dayoftruthtelling@gmail.com or check us out on My Space at www.myspace.com/ubuntunc

This event is being organized by: the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Ubuntu, Men Against Rape Culture, SpiritHouse, Raleigh Fight Imperialism Stand Together, Southerners on New Ground, Independent Voices, Black Workers for Justice, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization/OSCL.

“What would happen in one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”

- From: “Kathe Kollwitz” by Muriel Rukeseyer

On Love

southernersonnewground — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:35:31 +0000

“Gaining access to Material privilege alone will never satisfy needs of the Spirit. These hungers persist and haunt us. We seek to satisfy those cravings by endless consumption, appetites that easily turn into addictions that can never be satisfied. Needs of the Spirit can only be satisfied when we care for the Soul. Our ancestors knew this. Only a politics of conversion where we return to love can save us.” -bell hooks

Poems on Immigrant Experience and so much more!!!

southernersonnewground — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:48:10 +0000

Find below a beautiful zine of poetry by Kriti Sharma. Get ready immigrant folks–this stuff has been known to make us cry with recognition and tenderness over a kitchen table…everyday-enchantment-in-the-ordinary-world.pdf

Thoughts on Moral Revolution

southernersonnewground — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:45:27 +0000

We enclosed this picture–because this is how Kriti’s work makes us feel: all shining inside. This link opens onto a beautiful zine created by Kriti Sharma, as a younger woman of color who sees the importance of younger activists drawing from lessons on the lesbian feminist movement in the US during the 1970′s. She has used ideas from the book ‘Lesbian Ethics’ by Sarah Lucia Hoagland, and created an easy to read and use zine that summarizes a lot of the information. (Don’t worry…Sarah Lucia knows about the zine and loves it!) We have found this to be a really useful tool for some of our community groups to spend an evening with–just sharing and talking and growing. Excellent for helping groups to think more about conflict transformation too!! Kriti tells us that the format is hard to read online, so print it out if you want it!!! lesbian-ethics-booklet.pdf

Poetics For Liberation

southernersonnewground — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:14:44 +0000

“I am a revolutionary feminist because I want me to be free. And it is critically important to me that you who are here, that your commitment to revolution is based on the fact that you want revolution for yourself.” Pat Parker (from Revolution: It’s Not Pretty, Easy or Quick)

Suzanne Pharr’s Article: “From Welfare Queens to Gay Marriage”

southernersonnewground — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:10:43 +0000

This article looks at the connections between the rightwing’s attacks on LGBTQ folks and all low-income women of color and the “gay marriage agenda”.

from-welfare-queens-to-gay-marriage-the-path-to-compulsory-heterosexual-marriage.pdf

Suzanne Pharr’s Article: “Inside/Out: Democratic Participation and Economic Justice In Our Own Organizations”

southernersonnewground — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:56:48 +0000

“Inside/Out” is an excellent article written by one of SONG’s founders. It can be used as a tool for groups and organizations to ask ourselves questions about how we are doing our work, and what our methods and processes mean for the work of building a movement.

inside-out-dem-participation-and-econ-justice-in-our-own-orgs.pdf

HOW WE RELATE: The Relationships Between Different Forms Of Oppression

southernersonnewground — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:45:23 +0000

new-relationship-between-forms-of-oppression.doc

Ever had a hard time talkin’ to folks you know about the relationships between different forms of oppression? We have! So we doctored up this tool that we use in workshops to help us. Check it out, and if you are facilitating for a group, it has possible discussion questions at the end!