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Last year at this time, we achieved the impossible together. People from all walks of life united to collect signatures, insisting the Atlanta City Council place Cop City on the ballot to let the people decide if Cop City should be built. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like you, we collected over 116,000 signatures as part of the Vote to Stop Cop City coalition. That’s more than double the number of city officials required to enact the referendum. So what happened?

One year later, the boxes full of petitions are still sitting in the clerk’s office where we left them. When we first launched this effort, Atlanta Mayor Dickens promised he wouldn’t intervene and would allow democracy to prevail. In reality, his administration has impeded our efforts at every turn, silencing the voices of thousands. They are hoping that we will forget about it and move on. Not on our watch!

On Monday, September 16, we’re calling on the people throughout the Atlanta area to join us at City Council once again to demand that our voices be heard. At any time, the mayor’s office can drop its appeal, or the Council can just pass a resolution to place it on the ballot themselves. We need to make clear that we won’t stand by as they subvert democracy right before our eyes – especially as election season approaches.

Register to come out to City Council on Monday, September 16, 2024, at 11:00 AM here.

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We know that in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must stop arming Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians. That’s why we are joining the call for an immediate embargo on US arms to Israel. Join us in demanding presidential candidate Kamala Harris distance herself from Biden’s disastrous policy of arming Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

Not another bomb!

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Already signed the petition? Check out other actions you can take, including phone banking, art builds, or attending/planning an action in your city for the Not Another Bomb Day (weekend) of Action August 16th-18th.

About the Not Another Bomb Day of Action

The Not Another Bomb Day of Action is a series of peaceful rallies and marches across the country to push the Biden-Harris administration and the Democratic Party to support an arms embargo for Israel’s war and an end to the occupation against Palestinians. Actions will take place from August 16-18, before the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). 

Since October 7th, Israel has launched an all out bombardment of Gaza destroying schools, hospitals, and homes. Over 40,000 people have died, including more than 15,000 children, and over 89,000 people have been injured. This is only possible because of the blank check that the US government has provided to Israel – providing them with bombs, ammunition, and political cover. 

In order to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must immediately stop arming Israel. This will reduce Israel’s capacity to continue to enact genocide and pressure the government to change course.

As Israel’s bombing of Gaza continues to escalate and the presidential election marches on, the movement needs to come together as a multi-racial, anti-authoritarian coalition to work together and demand: “not another bomb” and work to reshape the status quo of US foreign policy. 

The Democratic National Convention (August 19-22) is the movement’s last major opportunity before the November election to collectively push the Democratic Party away from its immoral and unpopular stance on Palestinian human rights and push forward the demand for a weapons embargo as the path to a ceasefire. We will pressure every corner for the Democratic Party from the Biden/Harris administration to Congress to DNC delegates to take a side.

The media frenzy around the DNC will provide a key intervention point, and we want to capture the spotlight for Palestine. We will take action to make the arms embargo the front-of-mind demand from the movement. 

At the same time, we also know that a Trump presidency would roll back the progress we have made and commit further violence against Palestinians, likely escalating the war in the region even further. Our task is to align the Democratic Party with the majority of the Democratic base and ensure that we win in November with the anti-war platform required to save lives and democracy.

This effort is being spearheaded by Not Another Bomb, a campaign of the Uncommitted National Movement. This day of action is in tandem with other strategies our movement is employing to push for an end to this war. 

As the compounding crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate collapse, economic inequality, and increased attacks on our access to the ballot continue to ravage our communities – our people are fighting for survival. 

We know that election season is all of the time, not just every four years when the president is at the top of the ticket.

We know that our communities are on the line and that our votes count even in the states and counties where we may feel isolated and dispersed, but we are many.

At SONG Power have a vision of transformative electoral organizing — that is not transactional and intermittent — but instead: 

• Leads to real material shifts in the Land, Body, Spirit, Work conditions for our constituency (the people who may not even know our name, but are affected by the issues we organize around)
• Driven by the issues that are priorities to our communities, rather than by the fame or fortune of individuals
• Incorporates mutual aid — gives back to the community.
• Builds the power of the community to organize — new leaders and relationships.
• Rooted in our values in how we treat each other and demonstrates the world we want to live in
• Connected to year-round organizing, not just elections.
• Reveals systemic oppressions of capitalism, racism, neoliberalism, imperialism and patriarchy that are embedded in the U.S. electoral process. Elections are a tactic and a means to an end, but are not inherently liberatory.

Canvassing For Survival + Liberation is transformative electoral organizing in action.

“We recognized that in order to bring the people to the level of consciousness where they would seize the time, it would be necessary to serve their interests in survival by developing programs which would help them to meet their daily needs…these programs satisfy the deep needs of the community but they are not solutions to our problem. That is why we call them survival programs, meaning survival pending revolution.”

– Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

But we don’t just want to survive – we want to thrive. 

We want liberation in our lifetime. 

We believe that the answers we are looking for lie in our communities, with our people, and that behind each door knocked in our neighborhoods are the real political strategists, organizers, and changemakers. 

We are canvassing for our collective dreams, our vision for the future and to find and connect with our beloved community all over the South. 

We are not just putting feet on the ground but our ears to the street – searching for the stories of our people, listening for the rhythm, the words and the phrases that will shape our dreams.

What is Canvassing For Survival + Liberation

Canvassing For Survival and Liberation is a 6 week base building campaign focused on canvassing across the region through three selected sites. 

We are inspired in this plan by Canvassing for Dreams, a SONG Member Initiated Project, produced by Gallery of the Streets as part of [b]REACH: Adventures in Heterotopia.  Beginning in the fall of 2019 through the fall of 2020, Canvassing for Dreams performed theoretical and stylistic interventions in Black counterpublic spaces. The project aimed to queer traditional canvassing and engage communities in public discussions about justice and safety. 

Sites will be chosen through an application process and run by a Local Power Team. Each team will be made up of 5-6 members and consist of the following role: a coordinator, a communications point and a canvass team. SONG Power will offer a paid stipend of $20/hr for up to 20hr/week to each team member. 

Sites will begin the process with onboarding, training and a deep dive into analyzing the needs of their communities, power mapping + assessing the political climate in their area to create a plan tailored to their site. 

Canvassing For Survival + Liberation Site Criteria

• Align with SONG and SONG Power’s vision, mission + working agreements (will link to this on SONG’s website) 
• A crew of 5-6 folks who are ready to rock + roll and commit to the 6-week program 
• Come with a willingness to learn, struggle + grow 

Timeline

• October 4: Applications Open 
• October 15: Applications Close 
• October 15-20: Site Selection, Onboarding + Training  
• October 20 – December 1: 6 week campaign + canvass blitz
• December 1 – December 5: Debrief + Assessment