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Why We Do What We Do

In 2020, we are launching a new 501(c)4 organization, SONG Power, to support the power-building and advocacy of our 28-year old beloved 501(c)3, Southerners on New Ground. It has been a long time coming.  

Why are we launching this new arm of our organization?

We feel we have a mandate to build political power and advocate on the issues affecting our communities because of:

  • What we are up against in this political moment
  • SONG’s scale: with SONG Power, we can build on and expand SONG’s success in reaching more people and resources than ever before
  • To achieve our campaign and base-building objectives: we must grow and we must work to change the rules to alleviate our communities suffering,
  • To elevate our values and contend for power more aggressively.

SONG and SONG Power are anti-fundamentalist organizations. That means we believe it will take a diversity of tactics to achieve our goals. There has been a live debate inside SONG for decades about how to build and shift power. Before now, SONG has chosen to prioritize building out a grassroots membership base, engaging in political education and kinship building, flanking and now initiating grassroots direct action organizing campaigns.

SONG Power will further expand our organizing toolbox: to directly confront our targets and provide opportunities for our base to organize towards true political power. Politically, SONG Power believes in engaging in electoral cycles tactically to build our power as we continue to demand, vision, and fight for complete and utter societal and political transformation far beyond the ballot box.

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SONG Power is the political and advocacy arm of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). We are organizing to shift power and build beloved community in the South.

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therealnews The Real News @therealnews ·
14 Jul

Poverty can be its own form of voter suppression. So these organizers, with the group @songpowerc4, are using mutual aid to help get out the vote: by @jaisalnoor w/ @soljourno https://therealnews.com/you-cant-think-about-voting-if-youre-thinking-about-feeding-your-kids

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songpowerc4 songpowerc4 @songpowerc4 ·
12 Oct 2021

We're hitting the streets again!

This fall we're Canvassing For Survival and Liberation – a 6 week base building program focused on canvassing across the region through 3 selected sites ran by paid Local Power teams!

Learn more + apply to be a site >>> http://songsouth.info/c4survival

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songpowerc4 songpowerc4 @songpowerc4 ·
7 Oct 2021

We're hitting the streets again!

This fall we're Canvassing For Survival and Liberation – a 6 week base building program focused on canvassing across the region through 3 selected sites ran by paid Local Power teams!

Learn more + apply to be a site >>> http://songsouth.info/c4survival

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songpowerc4 songpowerc4 @songpowerc4 ·
1 Jul 2021

Help us sharpen the tools in our toolbox for liberation by completing this survey that will allow us to push our demands further, drastically build our base & contend directly for power across the South

Survey >>> https://bit.ly/songsurveyesp

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ngpaction New Georgia Project Action Fund @ngpaction ·
25 May 2021

on holding law enforcement accountable, protecting the right to vote, fighting employment discrimination, and increasing equity to housing and education for marginalized communities.

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