S.O.N.G.

Hey all…SONG is a Coalition Partner for this…check it out!!!

For all those who know that “it is better to speak”

A CALL TO ACTION

Creating a World without Sexual Violence
National Day of Truthtelling

April 28th, 2007
Durham, North Carolina

For all who ARE survivors of sexual violence/
For all who choose to BELIEVE survivors of sexual violence/
For all who KNOW WE CAN end rape culture/

join us on April 28th, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina, as we come together-across divisions and disempowering silences-to create a world full of the safety, possibility, dignity, justice, and peace that we all deserve. Stand with us as we dare to imagine a world free from sexual violence and ALL forms of oppression.

Meet us in Durham to speak, teach, learn, demonstrate, and tell the truth. Together, WE can make this world a reality!!!

Questions? Contact us at dayoftruthtelling@gmail.com or check us out on My Space at www.myspace.com/ubuntunc

This event is being organized by: the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Ubuntu, Men Against Rape Culture, SpiritHouse, Raleigh Fight Imperialism Stand Together, Southerners on New Ground, Independent Voices, Black Workers for Justice, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization/OSCL.

“What would happen in one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”

- From: “Kathe Kollwitz” by Muriel Rukeseyer

“Gaining access to Material privilege alone will never satisfy needs of the Spirit. These hungers persist and haunt us. We seek to satisfy those cravings by endless consumption, appetites that easily turn into addictions that can never be satisfied. Needs of the Spirit can only be satisfied when we care for the Soul. Our ancestors knew this. Only a politics of conversion where we return to love can save us.”

~bell hooks

“Weep loudly for what you cannot save,
and do it loudly for all your descendants to hear…
Let it be known
that you resist the dissolution of families…
of cells, of atoms, of parts from their whole…”

Below… is a beautiful zine of poetry by SONG member Kriti Sharma. Get ready immigrant folks–this stuff has been known to make us cry with recognition and tenderness along with other comrades….

We enclosed this picture–because this is how Kriti’s work makes us feel: all shining inside!

This link opens onto a beautiful zine created by Kriti Sharma, as a younger woman of color who sees the importance of younger activists drawing from lessons on the lesbian feminist movement in the US during the 1970’s.

She has used ideas from the book ‘Lesbian Ethics’ by Sarah Lucia Hoagland, and created an easy to read and use zine that summarizes a lot of the information. (Don’t worry…Sarah Lucia knows about the zine and loves it!)

We have found this to be a really useful tool for some of our community groups to spend an evening with–just sharing and talking and growing. Excellent for helping groups to think more about conflict transformation too!!