Author: ProjectSouth Admin
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Georgia Detention Watch hosts Concert for the Incarcerated Calling for the Closure of Atlanta City Detention Center
[av_button label=’Download the Press Advisory’ link=’manually,https://prjs.palantetech.coop/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Concert-for-the-Incarcerated-Press-Advisory.pdf’ link_target=” size=’x-large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’no’ icon=’ue800′ font=’entypo-fontello’ color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ admin_preview_bg=”] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 20, 2017 CONTACT: Azadeh Shahshahani, Project South and Georgia Detention Watch, (404) 574-0851, azadeh@prjs.palantetech.coop Kevin Caron, Georgia Detention Watch, (815) 222-2886, kevintcaron@gmail.com *** MEDIA ADVISORY *** Georgia Detention Watch hosts Concert for the…
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50th Anniversary of Beyond Vietnam Speech
April 4, 2017, marks the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beyond Vietnam: A Time of Break Silence speech at Riverside Church in New York. Dr. King identified deep connections between racism, materialism and militarism in his speech, and emphasized struggling against the root causes of racism – economic inequality and imperialism.…
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A Panel Discussion: Dismantling the Private Prison Industry
On February 2nd 2017, Project South partnered up with the American Constitution Society, Southern Center for Human Rights, and the ACLU of Georgia to host a panel on dismantling the private industry. More than 100 people attended to learn about the movement to shut down the prison industrial complex starting with getting prison corporations out…
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Groups Respond to Anti-Immigrant Bills
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Advocacy and Faith Groups Hold Press Conference to Respond to Anti-Immigrant Bills Press conference will be at 10:30 am on March 9th in front of the Central Presbyterian Church, 201 Washington St SW, Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia – On March 9th, advocacy and faith groups as well as directly…
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Project South Member Update: February 2017
[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” mobile_display=”] [av_image src=’https://prjs.palantetech.coop/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/memberupdat2017.jpg’ attachment=’5094′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’][/av_image] [/av_one_full] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] We do not consent. We resist. We protect. We defend. We build. Greetings – In this…
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The Georgia January 20th Coalition Launches Action to Demand that Atlanta Declare Itself a Sanctuary City
The Georgia January 20th Coalition Launches Action to Demand that Atlanta Declare Itself a Sanctuary City Press conference will be at noon on January 20th in front of the Atlanta City Hall, 68 Mitchell St SW Atlanta, Georgia – On January 20th, the Georgia January 20th coalition will engage in the People’s Inauguration, demanding that the…
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Justice for Berta! Atlanta Rally
[av_gallery ids=’4634,4635,4636,4637,4638,4641′ style=’thumbnails’ preview_size=’portfolio’ crop_big_preview_thumbnail=’avia-gallery-big-crop-thumb’ thumb_size=’portfolio’ columns=’5′ imagelink=’lightbox’ lazyload=’avia_lazyload’] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Project South’s Azadeh Shahshahani spoke at the press conference in front of the Honduran Consulate held on June 15, 2016 as part of the nationwide actions to seek justice for the murdered human rights and environmental justice activist, Berta Cáceres. Speakers also drew connections to the…
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Panel Discussion to Shed Light on Post-9/11 Human Rights Abuses Affecting Muslims, Black Communities, and Immigrant Communities of Color
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Panel Discussion to Shed Light on Post-9/11 Human Rights Abuses Affecting Muslims, Black Communities, and Immigrant Communities of Color Panel to be held at Masjid Al-Mu’minun, 1127 Hank Aaron Dr SW, on April 7 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CONTACT: Azadeh N. Shahshahani, Project South, 404-574-0851, azadeh@prjs.palantetech.coop Atlanta, GA…
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Southern Peoples Initiative Launch
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] April 1, 2016 For immediate release For more information contact: Ash-Lee Henderson, Project South Regional Organizer ash-lee@prjs.palantetech.coop 423-794-6434 Southern People’s Initiatives: Building a Southern Freedom Movement for the 21st Century Communities unite to protect and defend themselves against state violence, create peoples democracies and social movement governance, and build a new…
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Member Update : November 2015
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#b02b2c’] Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide Member Update : November 2015 [/av_textblock] [av_image src=’https://prjs.palantetech.coop/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/unnamed.jpg’ attachment=’4238′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ animation=’no-animation’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’ overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’] Project South Regional Organizer Ash-lee Woodard Henderson in Uniontown, Alabama facilitating during a community gathering to address the impacts of…