This month hear the experiences from youth organizers who are leading the charge in policy fights, protests, and collective organizing to protect and defend their communities.

This year, SMA members and anchors have committed to organizing PMAs to build our visions and shared strategies to bring to SMA10 in September. We will use the Organizing Intensive to support organizers to learn skills specific to organizing PMAs including facilitation, synthesis decision-making, political education, and fundamental organizing skills.

The release of the SMA 2022 Action plan to advance the Southern peoples Initiatives (SPI).

Rooted in the spirit of the original SMA I in 2012 that converged in Lowndes County, Alabama on the site of 1965’s Freedom City, SMA 10 will recognize the last decade of our movement building work.

An inter-generational conversation to explore and celebrate the Black Radical Tradition in the US & Global South.

For our January General Membership Meeting, we gathered to share our stories and reports from across the frontlines in the South.

Join us to take a breath as we celebrate our accomplishments and build momentum toward SMA 10 in 2022!

Together with SpiritHouse & members of the Back in the Black Coalition we gathered to learn about American Rescue Plan Act and how to apply fundamentals of organizing like investigation and data research to develop a plan for our communities.

We kicked off the SMA Freedom & Survival School - Hot DAM Study Series with an orientation to ground our folks and give space for groups and facilitation teams to meet each other. New participants are still welcomed to sign up at http://bit.ly/HotDam

Closing out our series on racial capitalism, we explore strategies for dismantling racial capitalism and building a new social economy!