It's been a long and challenging year. We are proud of what we have accomplished from the People's Movement Assembly Organizing School in South Carolina to the Summer of Assemblies to the 11th Southern Movement Assembly convergence in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Get Ready Task Force is a regional organizing drive to coordinate on-the-ground community organizing support, share skills, resources, and ideas for collective action across the South! We ask ourselves: If we were better organized, what would be possible? How are we preparing to protect our communities? What will happen across the South - before, during, and after the elections on November 5th?

Social Movements throughout history and around the world have used assemblies to make decisions. Movements, particularly in the Global South - Africa, Asia, and Latin America - have used assemblies to instigate people-powered change. I

The Southern Movement Assembly’s plan for protecting and defending our communities, creating community solutions, and practicing a people’s governance at a time when democracy is collapsing, is convening to build independent political power through the assembly process.

Fascism has and will continue to move us further away from self determination, destroy our communities, and spearhead the collapse of movements for transformative change and liberation; if it is not completely uprooted. From the attack on students calling for the divestment from the war machine to the release of Project 2025. Our people must assemble together to resist, build, and organize a plan to defend our ground and protect our people.

Southern Movement Assembly Solidarity with Palestine - #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNow

Watch this month’s #StateOfTheSouth Call to explore ways we can overcome, resist, and build tools within our groups/organizations/formations in the South for communal care, balance, and sustainability. When we converge, it is an act of resistance to isolation. Our liberation starts with acknowledgement that we are stronger together than by ourselves.

The SMA Monthly General Membership Assembly Calls are getting a new boost! SMA #StateOfTheSouth Regional Monthly Calls advance the Southern Freedom Movement in the 21st Century.

The National Council of Elders, Barbara Smith, Zoharah Simmons, with guest Dr. Fouad Moughrabi educate members of the Southern Movement Assembly about the ongoing attacks on Palestine.

Learn about the purpose and function of the Southern Movement Assembly, lessons from the Soulstice process, and organizing opportunities for next year. Invite your organizational family, assembly crew, and community base to get plugged into the Southern Freedom Movement!