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| − | [[Southerners | + | [[Southerners On New Ground]] (SONG) was founded after the [[1992 LGBTQ Creating Change]] conference. Three Black lesbians and three white lesbians – [[Pat Hussain]], [[Joan Garner]], [[Mandy Carter]], along with [[Suzanne Pharr]], [[Pam McMichael]], and [[Mab Segrest]] – all organizers who had been working in the South, were seeing the widening divide between white LGBTQ people and LGBTQ people of color and the issues that were being talked about and prioritized. They realized that there was a real need in the region, and throughout the movement nationally to broaden and connect struggles for racial, economic, and gender justice that combatted the Right Wing strategy of dividing us (as LGBTQ people) from each other along the fault lines of race, class and culture. So, they started SONG and we have been working to answer the question of how to advance a multi-racial, racial justice agenda over the entire lifespan of our organization.<ref>[ http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/lets-get-free-southerners-on-new-ground-song-speaks-about-white-racial-justice-organizing-in-black-lives-matter-times-hesaid/ The Good Man Project, “Let’s Get Free”: Southerners on New Ground (SONG) Speaks about White Racial Justice Organizing in Black Lives Matter Times July 7, 2015 by Chris Crass]</ref> |
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==Up For Democracy== | ==Up For Democracy== | ||
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Template:TOCnestleft Mandy Carter
SONG Founders
Southerners On New Ground (SONG) was founded after the 1992 LGBTQ Creating Change conference. Three Black lesbians and three white lesbians – Pat Hussain, Joan Garner, Mandy Carter, along with Suzanne Pharr, Pam McMichael, and Mab Segrest – all organizers who had been working in the South, were seeing the widening divide between white LGBTQ people and LGBTQ people of color and the issues that were being talked about and prioritized. They realized that there was a real need in the region, and throughout the movement nationally to broaden and connect struggles for racial, economic, and gender justice that combatted the Right Wing strategy of dividing us (as LGBTQ people) from each other along the fault lines of race, class and culture. So, they started SONG and we have been working to answer the question of how to advance a multi-racial, racial justice agenda over the entire lifespan of our organization.[1]
Up For Democracy
Up For Democracy, created in the mid-2000's, described itself as "a multi-cultural grassroots coalition for participatory democracy, economic and social justice and peace"[2]
Steering Committee members included Mandy Carter - Southerners On New Ground, North Carolina.
Black Radical Congress
In March 1998 “Endorsers of the Call” to found a Black Radical Congress included Mandy Carter, Durham, NC[3].
References
- ↑ [ http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/lets-get-free-southerners-on-new-ground-song-speaks-about-white-racial-justice-organizing-in-black-lives-matter-times-hesaid/ The Good Man Project, “Let’s Get Free”: Southerners on New Ground (SONG) Speaks about White Racial Justice Organizing in Black Lives Matter Times July 7, 2015 by Chris Crass]
- ↑ www.upfordemocracy.org/steeringcommittee.html, as of 10/23/2006
- ↑ http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/524.html