In today’s Economic Democracy Weekly, we begin with two stories on economic justice organizing in the South. First, our latest State of the Movements column situates Southern organizing today in historical perspective. Next, from our series on Defying the Odds: How Southern Workers Organize, stories of renewable energy sector worker organizing in Alabama and Tennessee. This is followed by two news updates: one on the public service loan forgiveness program that benefits hundreds of thousands of nonprofit workers; the other on unions and the struggle for member democracy at REI, the nation’s largest co-op.