
Black Workers for Justice: 40-years of Advancing the Black Liberation and Workers Rights Movement
by Manzoor Cheema | Jun 9, 2022 | Movement Building
Black Workers for Justice: 40-years of Advancing the Black Liberation and Workers Rights Movement Southern Vision Alliance is honored to partner with Black Workers for Justice in different campaigns. SVA hosted BWFJ Freedom Fighters Shafeah M’Balia and...

Response to Roe v Wade Supreme Court Document Leak
by Southern Vision Alliance | May 13, 2022 | Political Education
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
by Beau Cromartie | Mar 24, 2022 | Capacity Building, Movement Building
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
by Alejandro Guerrero | Mar 18, 2022 | Capacity Building, Movement Building
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
by Beau Cromartie | Feb 18, 2022 | Political Education
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
by Southern Vision Alliance | Feb 11, 2022 | Movement Building
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
by Beau Cromartie | Feb 7, 2022 | Movement Building
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
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jan 27, 2022 | Movement Building
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
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jan 24, 2022 | Call to Action, Movement Building
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
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jan 13, 2022 | Movement Building, Political Education
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...