
Grand opening of People’s Solidarity Hub in Durham, NC
by Southern Vision Alliance | Aug 1, 2022 | Movement Building
If there’s one thing we continue to learn within our movements, it’s that we are an interconnected network that needs deep roots and mindful tending. We need more spaces to join, share resources, collaborate on mass actions, and build stronger relationships so that we...

Advancing our Southern Vision for Liberation
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jul 21, 2022 | Movement Building
Greetings, SVA friends and comrades, The political moment we face is one where democracy, safety, and economic stability lie in the balance between chaos and uncertainty and justice and unity. Moments of crisis like these represent both grave dangers and windows of...

NC youth-led organizations come together to build statewide community and solidarity
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jul 13, 2022 | Movement Building
The amazing program AVL Rise, as part of the Open Doors of Asheville network, connected with the Carolina Youth Power Fund and NoCap for a weekend of building community through power. There is the rather obtuse idea that revolutionary change only comes through serious...

Young activists and NoCap leaders embark on advocacy and culture learning DC tour
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jul 11, 2022 | Movement Building
NoCap fellows enjoying their time at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It’s 3am on Friday April 22nd, more than 10 college aged youth are gathering at Faith Community Church and the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC awaiting the...

The attacks on abortion rights and the fight ahead
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jun 24, 2022 | Statement
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States concluded a legal debate about abortions that has been a part of our electoral and movement battles for the last 50 years. The ruling, which overturned the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, has immediate consequences for our...

Announcing Queer Mobilization Fund’s 2022 Cohort
by Southern Vision Alliance | Jun 13, 2022 | Capacity Building, Movement Building
Announcing Queer Mobilization Fund's 2022 Grantees Contact Ricky Bratz, Queer Mobilization Fund Director at ricky@southernvision.org We are excited to finally unveil this year's Queer Mobilization Fund (QMF) grantee cohort! This is our fourth cohort of grantees...

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...