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Southern Echo is a leadership development, education and training organization working to develop effective accountable grassroots leadership in the African-American communities in rural Mississippi and the surrounding region through comprehensive training and technical assistance programs. Our work has carried Southern Echo staff into 12 additional states across the south and southwest.

Southern Echo's underlying goal is to empower local communities through effective community organizing work, in order to create a process through which community people can build the broad-based organizations necessary to hold the political, economic, educational, and environmental systems accountable to the needs and interests of the African-American community.

“08/01/2010″ to “09/30/2010″ - Redistricting Public Hearings – Legislative Reapportionment Committee will hold public hearings to elicit public input concerning adoption of guidelines to redistrict the Congressional, Legislative and Judicial offices in 2011.

“08/14/2010″ - Convening on School Consolidation – Southern Echo and MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable will hold convening at MS Valley State Univ. regarding school consolidation as the wrong path in Mississippi and which strategies are preferable.

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SxSW Tech Team Hosts Video-Editing Workshop

USSF Tech Team Training Jackson, MS – The members of the South by Southwest Experiment, which includes Southern Echo, the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable, Southwest Workers Union, and South West Organizing Project, are gearing up to attend and participate in the US Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan. Recently, members of the Tech Team attended a video-editing workshop held at the Echo office in Jackson, MS.

The workshop trained teams members to edit videos in a uniform manner and also allowed members to practice their interviewing skills.

The Tech Team will capture the experience of the member groups as they caravan cross country to attend the Social Forum. Along the way, they’ll update blogs, post video, and ultimately create a final video project depicting the journey.

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