Southern Summit 2024 | Durham, NC | June 26-29 

Reclaiming Democracy & Defeating Fascism By Worker and Community Organizing

 The Southern Summit is a three-day convergence of organizers and activists from across the region. We hope you’ll join us! 

In turbulent eras of our country’s history, there emerge moments that stand as flashpoints of hope, rallying cries where the forces of justice and equality converge to challenge the prevailing darkness. The 2024 Southern Summit will be such a moment—a critical juncture in the ongoing battle against fascism and white supremacy. Rooted in the South, where beacons of progressivism abound but often go unnoticed, this summit marks a significant stride toward a more just and inclusive society. 

Southern Summit Agenda:

Wednesday June 26th, 2024

• Registration & Self-Organized Meet up
• An opportunity for networks and affinity groups to meet up before we get into the thick of the convergence–these are self-organized sessions that will happen across downtown Durham.
• Dinner & Opening Session
• Grounding Ourselves in the Summit, in Durham, and & Community

Thursday June 27th, 2024

Theme: Building Connection and Aligned Context 

• Welcome to Durham & the Southern Convergence  
• Opening Plenary Session
• The Landscape of the South – Battleground for Hearts & Minds
• Breakouts: Landscape of Organizing
  
• Dinner & Second Plenary Session
• Intergenerational Visions of a New South

Friday June 28th, 2024

Theme: Building Shared Skills and Tools

• Breakfast & Cultural Performance
• This Political Moment Plenary
• Power – What Does it Mean For Liberation?
• How do we have it, build it, alter our relations of power to it, and ultimately take it away from the systems that oppress us?
• Breakouts: Hard Skills Trainings
• Dinner & Cultural Performances & Spotlight Speaker

Saturday June 29th, 2024

Theme: Building Shared Strategy

• Defeating Fascism Plenary
• The Global Fight Against Fascism and for Democracy
• Breakouts: Movement Building Strategies
• Breakouts: Building Collective Strategy Innovations & Interventions 
• Dinner & Celebration

Southern Summit Partners Include:

• Action NC
• Advance Carolina
• Black Men Build
• Blueprint NC
• Emancipate NC
• Poder NC
• Queer Mobilization Fund
• Rising Majority
• Southern Vision Alliance
• USSW (United Southern Service Workers)
• Working Families Party

Hotel block details for this event will be sent to registrants soon.