The Southern Movement Assembly’s plan for protecting and defending our communities, creating community solutions, and practicing a people’s governance at a time when democracy is collapsing, is convening to build independent political power through the assembly process.

Fascism has and will continue to move us further away from self determination, destroy our communities, and spearhead the collapse of movements for transformative change and liberation; if it is not completely uprooted. From the attack on students calling for the divestment from the war machine to the release of Project 2025. Our people must assemble together to resist, build, and organize a plan to defend our ground and protect our people.

Southern Movement Assembly Solidarity with Palestine - #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow

Watch this month’s #StateOfTheSouth Call to explore ways we can overcome, resist, and build tools within our groups/organizations/formations in the South for communal care, balance, and sustainability. When we converge, it is an act of resistance to isolation. Our liberation starts with acknowledgement that we are stronger together than by ourselves.

The SMA Monthly General Membership Assembly Calls are getting a new boost! SMA #StateOfTheSouth Regional Monthly Calls advance the Southern Freedom Movement in the 21st Century.

The National Council of Elders, Barbara Smith, Zoharah Simmons, with guest Dr. Fouad Moughrabi educate members of the Southern Movement Assembly about the ongoing attacks on Palestine.

Learn about the purpose and function of the Southern Movement Assembly, lessons from the Soulstice process, and organizing opportunities for next year. Invite your organizational family, assembly crew, and community base to get plugged into the Southern Freedom Movement!

Watch The final edition of The Art of Strategy: Building Solidarity Across Generations! Our featured special guest vet, Mandy Carter, helps us to bridge the gap as we discuss the art and strategy of connection. Joining alongside her in conversation this evening will be George Holmes (they/them), Program Assistant at Amplify Georgia Collaborative and Organizer and Facilitator of Southern Jam and Lorie Bryant, Membership Outreach at Southerners on New Ground (SONG).

This month’s The Art of Strategy: Building Solidarity Across Generations featuring Candie Carawan and Gloria Aneb House; supported by two young organizers and fellow musicians Jules Kessler, Co-Coordinator of The STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) and Paul Newman, Community Organizer with SpiritHouse Inc. During this edition we will dive into how art and culture has played a meaningful role in the movement throughout history as a medium to share our experiences, connect and reflect the struggles facing our communities, and ultimately move and motivate people to action! This double feature brings us the tales of two movement veterans and how artvisim has been interwoven into their fight for freedom from an early age on into times of today.

The Southern Movement Assembly is taking a year of Soulstice; a time for Expansion, Change, and Action. We believe that the SMA, like many formations, should give significant time and attention to how we are growing in relation to our people and our principles. We have a responsibility to learn and reimagine our structures in alignment with our commitment to address the urgent movement needs of this time. We recognize that in order to EXPAND, we need to be CLEAR; in order to CHANGE, we need to be ROOTED in our foundations and history; in order to ACT, we need a collective PLAN and a PROCESS FOR IMPLEMENTATION.