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The Southern Leadership for Voter Engagement (SOLVE) Network Announces Funding Opportunity

DURHAM (May 29, 2024) –– The Southern Leadership for Voter Engagement (SOLVE) Network is excited to announce a series of $10,000 one-year project grants for Southern organizations and groups to increase civic participation and engagement in historically underrepresented communities across the region.   The application for the 2024-2025 Southern Spark Grant opened, May 28, 2024, and closes June…

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NC Supreme Court Sides with Political Operatives Instead of Voters in Defamation Case 

RALEIGH, N.C. (May 23, 2024) — The North Carolina Supreme Court sided with out-of-state political operatives Thursday in an opinion condoning agents of former state Governor Pat McCrory falsely accusing four North Carolina voters of fraud following the closely contested 2016 gubernatorial race.  The high court ruled in Bouvier, et al. v. Porter, et al.,…

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"Many of the voting rights success stories across the South have been the result of small but mighty organizations working tirelessly and fearlessly to make sure all voices are heard, despite efforts from politicians in many places to suppress the vote, particularly among communities of color."

— Mitchell Brown, SOLVE Network Coordinator and Senior Counsel for Voting Rights at SCSJ

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JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORM

Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan

SCSJ and Emancipate NC are assisting the Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan in their fight to remove a Confederate soldier statute from the town’s historic waterfront.

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VOTING RIGHTS

Petteway v. Galveston County

SCSJ filed a challenge to the Galveston County Commissioners' 2021 precinct map in April 2022 on behalf of three local NAACP branches, the local Galveston LULAC Council 151, and three Black and Latino voters, in partnership with co-counsel from Texas Civil Rights Project and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Clayton, et. al. v. Person County

SCSJ is challenging Person County's rezoning of parcels from rural residential and conservation designations to industrial zoning. Dominion Energy’s plans to construct and operate the proposed Moriah Energy Center (MEC) liquified methane storage facility on the rezoned parcels.

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