Southern Movement Presswire
Southern Vision Alliance hosts a regular, semiweekly Southern Movement Presswire that we send to more than 1500 journalists across the South to amplify the work of grassroots organizers. Each presswire includes 8-12 updates from Southern movement organizations in short, mini-press-release style. Our priority is to highlight stories that haven’t already been covered with a focus on local “leads” for stories. What’s included? Any kind of grassroots update—an emerging campaign, an upcoming action or event, or an issue going on in your community that needs more coverage from the media. Contact alejandro@southernvision.org with questions.
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News Coverage
If you’re a member of the press who would like to talk, please reach out to comms@southernvision.org.
National news highlights
Transgender people are three times as likely to go hungry, census data shows, Washington Post
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count (Highlight: NC prisons), New York Times
“We Never Made It to the Polls”: Police in North Carolina Pepper-Spray Voting March, Arresting Eight, Democracy Now
Can’t See the Forest for the Trees, The American Prospect; A proposed wood pellet plant in North Carolina would increase air pollutants in a majority-minority community already hammered by climate change
Planting a Life—and a Future—After Prison at Benevolence Farm, Civil Eats
Feature TV segments
Map shows removed confederate statues, WRAL 9am Show
‘Necessity, not a privilege’: College students rally to cancel student debt, Spectrum News 1
Local news highlights
A group of moms stopped a crypto mine from building next to an N.C. school, Southerly
Greenville LGBTQ+ center opens, Post and Courier
How a trans-led food pantry aims to eliminate food insecurity in WNC, North Carolina Health News
North Carolina HBCU students travel to D.C. to push for debt cancellation, Queen City Metro
Family of 5 facing eviction in Fayetteville, ‘we have nowhere to go,’ Fayetteville Observer
Activistas piden moratoria estatal contra desalojos, hacen manifestaciones en Carolina del Norte, La Noticia
Gov. Cooper says option is on the table to mandate vaccine for more state employees, CBS17
An Intersex, Transgender Woman Incarcerated at a Men’s Prison Wants to Transfer to a Women’s Facility for Her Safety, IndyWeekWhy Ashlee Inscoe, an incarcerated intersex, trans woman is fighting for her safety, Reckon South
