Response to Roe v Wade Supreme Court Document Leak
The Queer Mobilization Fund (QMF) at Southern Vision Alliance wants to express our dismay and outrage at the recent supreme court document leak that seeks to take away the right to access safe abortions. We know that these attacks on the rights of women’s bodies, and...
Our new solidarity center opens soon in Durham, NC
We are so excited to launch our new People’s Solidarity Hub in Durham, NC, unapologetically bright and vibrant like the movement and the people that make it up. Southern Vision Alliance’s work emerged in 2010 amid severe economic collapses as community groups began to...
Getting to Know SVA’s New Executive Leadership Team
To achieve metamorphic, sustainable justice in the South, we at Southern Vision Alliance believe that those most impacted by systems of oppression and racism—such as Black women and youth of color, immigrants, the LGBTQIA community, the rural working class, and people...
Webinar: Organize the South! Southern Workers Lead the Way – Feb 23
Dear friends, The Southern Vision Alliance invites you to join us for a special Black History Month webinar in conversation with the Southern Workers Assembly - “Organize the South: Southern Workers Lead the Way.” The conversation will take place on Wednesday,...
Meet Vikings Vote, a new project elevating the voices of HBCU students
This spring, Southern Vision Alliance is excited to support our latest cohort of Carolina Youth Power Fund (CYPF) mini-grantees. Our goal is to connect young people across North Carolina and the broader US South with resources that they can use to build and grow...
A visit to Beloved Community Center: Honoring our elders, carrying the struggle forward
This spring, Southern Vision Alliance is launching our Black Radical Tradition Training Series to steep our staff and organizers in the history and politics of the Black freedom struggle. Last week, our work kicked off with a site visit to the Beloved Community Center...
Black SEL Matters: An interview with one of SVA’s newest sponsored projects
In 2021, we welcomed Dangers of the Mind (DOM) into our family of fiscally sponsored projects here at SVA. DOM joins a network of 22 such projects, each of which is advancing long-term, community-based visions for liberation. DOM was founded in 2015 as an “educational...
6 Southern movement updates: Responses to police violence, COVID-19 in ICE facilities & more
Each month, we assemble the Southern Movement Presswire for local and national media. The presswire includes updates from frontline organizing for racial and social justice from our partners across the US South. For the first time, we’re excited to share these updates...
Internationalism, Black Liberation, Cuba, and MLK’s Legacy
Dear friends, The Southern Vision Alliance team wishes you solidarity and hope in this new year! In 2022, SVA will host a year-long webinar series aimed at sharing perspectives from movements for change in the US and Global South. Through these conversations, we will...
Southern organizers share their reflections from 2021 and visions for 2022
As we look back on 2021, we see the devastation wrought by two interrelated pandemics—COVID-19 and white supremacy—across this country and the world. In response to these pandemics, we’ve also seen major growth in our movement ecosystem—through...