We envision a future where Black and working-class communities are self-sustaining, politically conscious, and actively dismantling oppressive systems while constructing cooperative, sovereign, and liberated alternatives. Return To The Source (RTS) is a worker-owned...
In the intricate tapestry of social justice movements, the South has always been a vibrant thread, woven with resilience, struggle, and triumph. From the civil rights era to the fight for Palestinian liberation, the US South has been a crucible where the flames of...
Originally published in Scalawag. In the U.S. South, race is one of the most significant hurdles to our social political progress. Racialized geographies haunt our daily interactions. They are infused into our collective memory banks, dictating much of the ways we...
On February 1, SVA welcomed a new interim Executive Director, Joshua Vincent. We couldn’t be more excited for Josh’s leadership. Josh has served as a Board Chair since SVA’s inception and is deeply committed to our values and strategy. He brings two decades of...
Over the past decade, the Southern movement landscape has shifted dramatically. In 2014, the year Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) was founded, the global movement for Black lives was just taking off. We were only a few years removed from Occupy Wall Street, and still a...
It is difficult, tedious, and sometimes boring work to build organization, but it is worth it.
Nov 9th, 2016 I am not afraid. I am however, terrifyingly aware of the danger that this election season means to my body and the bodies of my people, friends that go to sleep and wake up in the world as the targets of white racism, the fear of difference and the...
In 2009, North Carolina held off-year, local elections. With only 5% of voters turning out, Art Pope, a millionaire backer of small government and anti-migrant think tanks, financed a slate of candidates to take over the Wake County school board.
