Join us in Mobile! 

Online registration begins soon

You will be redirected from this page to our new event management software:

http://aoj.wildapricot.org

AOJ members, please be ready to log in using the email address that is on file in our membership database (the same one you use to log in to this site or to receive AOJ member-emails). It will enable you to choose the correct member category for registration, and will prompt you to set a new password and review your membership profile*. 

Non-members, or members whose membership is not email-empowered, you may log in with an email address and pay the higher non-member registration fee, or you may contact our manager to join or get your membership updated. (Working draft 7/5/2014 JM)

We’ll be discussing:

• Southern politics: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• The ecology, economy and evolving culture of the Gulf Coast, a place affectionately called the "Redneck Riviera."
• Craft-oriented discussions on opinion journalism.
• What’s drawing international corporations ThyssenKrupp, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and others to Alabama?
• The state of voting rights five decades after passage of the Voting Rights Act and civil rights movement.
• Southern storytellers and editorial writing.
• Show-and-tell: A slideshow of your favorite work of the past year.
• Nuts & bolts: You’ve got problems, we’ll talk solutions.

PLUS: The white sand beaches of Gulf Shores are about an hour’s drive away. The Battleship USS Alabama. The Bellingrath Gardens and Home. The Dauphin Island Estuarium. More about what to expect is being posted periodically in the Features area of this website. Southern politics, walking-tour views of the meeting area....

* We will send more information about profiles before allowing them to become visible to site visitors; fellow members might see portions you do not block. You do not need to change a browser bookmark you may have set to opinionjournalists.org, because we will apply that URL to the new website when it is fully ready, and this site will remain active until then.