Southern Girls Convention News

Progress on SGC 2004 continues apace; information and online forms for registration and workshop proposals are now available. Check them out! All workshops at Southern Girls Convention are proposed and run by the participants themselves–that means you, so if there is any issue you’d like to discuss, any information or skills you’d like to share, any campaigns you’d like to organize or ideas you want to brainstorm with rad activists from all over the South… send us your proposal! Also make sure that you pre-register–we won’t turn you away if you show up without a registration form, but if you want help with arranging free housing and meals in Memphis, we need to know that you are coming.

More updates to come soon!

This year the sixth annual Southern Girls Convention will be held where it originated: Memphis, Tennessee. It will take place Thursday, August 12^th through Saturday, August 14^th at First Congregational Church, a progressive church in Memphis that offers organizing space to radical efforts such as ours. In the near future we’ll be accepting workshop applications and putting a general application up on the website, and we’ll put up more news and announcements explaining what we’ll be doing.

For more information, or if you have any questions, contact this year’s organizers. Spread the word! And watch this space for updates in early May!

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Southern Girls Convention has been held in Memphis, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Auburn, Alabama; Athens, Georgia; and Asheville, North Carolina. The sixth annual Southern Girls Convention will be returning to Memphis from August 12-14, 2004. As in years past, we hope that SGC will provide a space to share skills, meet others working on the issues we care about, explore various issues affecting the South, and strategize on how to organize and make positive changes in our communities. Please, feel free to bring video projects, zines, writing, and anything you are interested in sharing to the convention. We hope to see you there!