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Member Update : October 2015
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#b02b2c’] Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide Member Update : October 2015 [/av_textblock] [av_image src=’https://prjs.palantetech.coop/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Member-Update-October-2015-main-1030×682.jpg’ attachment=’4162′ attachment_size=’large’ 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…
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Member Update : July 2015
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#b02b2c’] Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide Member Update : July 2015 [/av_textblock] [av_image src=’https://prjs.palantetech.coop/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/unnamed-6.jpg’ attachment=’4007′ 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…
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Member Update : June 2015
[av_textblock size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#b02b2c’] Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide Member Update : June 2015 [/av_textblock] [av_image src=’https://prjs.palantetech.coop/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/unnamed-1030×687.jpg’ attachment=’3995′ attachment_size=’large’ 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…
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Member Update : February 2015
Greetings Project South Family, We kicked off 2015 with a lot of actions, education, and collaborations! We marched with the Georgia Citizens’s Coalition on Hunger during the MLK March in Atlanta, we spoke on the opening panel for the Walter Rodney Speakers Series 2015, we launched the Southern Peoples Initiative with our Southern Movement Assembly…
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Member Update : January 2015
REGIONAL UPDATES: BAM Institute: STOP KILLING US Youth Power for Transformation We revolt, simply because, for many reasons, we cannot breathe. – Franz Fanon The Black Radical Tradition is rooted in the U.S. South and works to advance a larger Freedom Movement that calls for the liberation of all oppressed people. This is the basis of Project…
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Member Update : December 2014
“We’re not going to take it anymore. We are saying no more police brutality.” Jaequan Allison, Youth Leadership Team “We have to come together. All of us. This is about all of us.” Shekinah King, Youth Leadership Team “Young people are fed up, and we are trying to build a movement.” Niqua Douglas, Project South…
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Southern Human Rights Organizer: Jaribu Hill
Les Etienne, Education & Research Director, and Ash-Lee Henderson, Regional Organizer, interviewed Jaribu Hill, the founder of the Southern Human Rights Organizing Conference (SHROC). A biannual gathering of southern leadersJaribu’s work through the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights and so many organizations over decades has contributed to the Black Radical Tradition in countless ways.…
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Black Liberation Movement is Rising! : A new generation of youth meets the moment
By Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson Ash-Lee is the Regional Organizer at Project South and lives in Chattanooga TN where she also works with Concerned Citizens for Justice, a local group fighting racism, violence, and police brutality Flash-point moments are catalysts in the lives of young people, launching us into life-long commitments to the struggle for Black…
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A 21st Century Re-Construction: The People’s Movement Assembly & the Southern Freedom Movement
By Emery Wright Emery Wright has worked at Project South for over 10 years and serves as the Co-Director. Sitting outside under the night sky and under the cover of massive oak trees draped with Spanish Moss in St. Augustine, Florida last summer I sat on the wall outside St. Paul’s AME church debriefing the…
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Member Update : October 2014
Greetings Project South family, October 2014 represents a month of people power in actions and assemblies. Project South’s youth are organizing amYouth Assembly to determine local campaigns on the frontlines of education justice. Thousands will converge on Ferguson this weekend to support the communities confronting state violence and impunity. Communities are coming together, and Project South is committed to building long-lasting infrastructure…