S.O.N.G.

Build Solidarity. Build Sustainability. 100 For Justice.

SONG has been selected to be part of 100 for Justice in an effort to get folks to give to 100 important organizations around the US: “Use $100 of your stimulus package to…give $ back to our communities, support local economies, and stimulate the kind of world we want to live in. ” Click here to learn more about the project, and give to SONG or any of these other powerful organizations.

A Place for Fresh Ideas: Check Out the Boggs Center:

“On Detroit’s east side, in neighborhoods where vacant lots and burned-out shells of former homes dominate the landscape, a radical vision is emerging. It is a futuristic view of urban redevelopment that draws heavily upon the past.” -Curt Guyette, Metro News

Many people think that Detroit is the blue print of the future of the US. By this we mean, that Detroit has experienced massive industrial build up, then pull out, and then urban collapse, losing half of its population, and now, trying to envision a different and sustainable future that puts poor people and people of color at the center of topics such as food sustainability, collective building, and gardening. For some time, at SONG, we have been thinking and learning about what it would truly mean to create a new kind of infrastructure–where land takes back cities, people take back communities from commerce, and we build democratically-led spaces.

At the Boggs Center in Detroit, they are thinking about these things too. That is why SONG sees the Boggs Center as kindred to ourselves.

From the Boggs Center website:

“For nearly forty years, the Boggs’ home…has been a community center and think-tank drawing together individuals and organizations from diverse backgrounds. People from around the world have come to create and discuss visions and strategies relating to local community struggles, workers’ movements, and global campaigns for social justice.”

GO TO: www.Boggscenter.org for more info, and check out their great blog called ‘Unending Conversations of Hope’!

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(Above: Caitlin Breedlove, SONG Staff, and Mia Mingus
at the US Social Forum 2007)

Amazing Atlanta-based SONG member Mia Mingus accepts the Creating Change Award 2008! Read her in her own words below, as she accepts the award last week in Detroit, MI! Congratulations, Mia, we love and honor you!!

mias-2008-award-acceptance.doc

Some Thoughts From SONG On Being An Ally

Here are some of the ever-evolving ideas that SONG uses when we talk about how to be an ally to folks who are surviving oppressions different from the ones we face, and when we talk about moving genuinely across difference to organize