Author: Shelley

Youth Leadership is Building Movement Futures At Project South we know that youth leadership is essential to movement work. In this moment of intensified repression, young people are on the frontlines, confronting injustice with bold vision, creativity, and collective power. From Palestinian liberation encampments to student walkouts and mass protests, from the Black Power Movement…

Mutual Aid: Building Futures of Collective Care What is Mutual Aid? Mutual aid is a strategy of resistance and survival. It’s a collective way of caring for one another by sharing resources, skills, and support, not as charity, but as solidarity. It’s about communities coming together to meet each other’s needs, resist systems of oppression,…

From Crisis to Convergence: Why Movement Infrastructure Matters We are facing intensified conditions—climate crises, surveillance, state violence, economic exploitation, cultural erasure—and these attacks are coordinated. Our response must be as strong, as clear, and as unified as the systems we are fighting. This next phase of movement work demands organized infrastructure rooted in shared values,…

Knowing and Defending Your Rights Standing up for our rights means more than knowing them. It means being ready and organized to defend them.  In 2025, Project South attorneys and organizers continued to stand alongside communities across Atlanta, the U.S. South, and beyond offering Know & Defend Your Rights trainings designed to equip people with…

Community Defense: Building Safety Through Solidarity We live in a time when state violence and rising fascism continue to threaten our communities. In the face of that, tactics of community defense and movement security become both strategy and promise: we protect each other. At Project South we have been asking ourselves urgent questions: How do…