As the year draws to an end, we would like to highlight and acknowledge all the hard fought battles and achievements we have sustained as a movement in 2022! This year has been rough as people try to navigate back to a place of stability after the chaos of the covid pandemic and enduring so much loss. Midterm elections across the nation show us that there is much work to be done as many have become discouraged by political divides. Workers and prisoners have been rising up in strikes to fight for fair and improved quality of life and basic human rights. Our work across the South and the movement for freedom and change are ever relevant and significant! We must continue on and we must win!

When we gathered at the 10th annual Southern Movement Assembly last month we left with the commitment to continuing to fortify our relationships to one another, our critical thought and practice, our belief in and action toward transformation, our principled struggle, our sense of belonging to each other, to the land, and to liberation; our solidarity made and remade through radical dependency, and to our strategy and practice of and toward freedom. On this call we reviewed the four components of the shared action plan and discussed what shared infrastructure we might need to carry out the plan.

Earlier this month, delegations representing peoples movement assemblies across the South gathered at the historic Franklinton Center at Bricks for Southern Movement Assembly 10. Rooted in place, in our people, and in our history we identified the uniqueness of this moment and began building a collective vision to meet it. These are heavy times, but we choose to dream and scheme beyond collapse. We choose liberation and joyful resistance. We invite you to meet this moment with us.