Category: Monthly Update

  • Member Update : July 2015

    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…

  • Member Update : June 2015

    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…

  • Member Update : May 2015

    Member Update : May 2015

    Above: YCAP team members on People’s TV for a Youth Town Hall Celebrate with the Youth Community Action Program on May 5 at the #10M4R Vote Party- come out as cast your vote on how you think funding for schools could and should be; South Atlanta Park from 4-6 PM. Greetings Project South Family,  On May Day,…

  • It’s Not About a Wedding Cake: “Religious Freedom” Laws

    It’s Not About a Wedding Cake: “Religious Freedom” Laws

    By Stephanie Guilloud, featured on Truth-Out.org April 12, 2015   “Religious freedom laws are signals of two things: the rise of legal protections for social control and segregation practices, and the growing power of cross-community movement alliances. Over the last few weeks, religious exclusion bills were introduced, debated, modified and either defeated or signed into law. Basketball…

  • Member Update : April 2015

    Member Update : April 2015

    From Selma to Charleston Emery Wright and Ruben Solis are led by members of SpiritHouse and Women Watch Afrika during the Backwards March at the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Selma. Our gold sashes read: We are the people’s Movement, Leadership from the Bottom-Up #RememberResistance A Southern Movement Assembly (SMA) delegation of almost 100 people from 7 states with international representation from…

  • Member Update : March 2015 – Movement Madness

    Member Update : March 2015 – Movement Madness

    Southern Movement converges in Selma! The Southern Movement Assembly partners converge in Selma this weekend, March 7-9, 2015 to recognize that the fight for voting rights is a fight for political power. We recognize the danger and strength of claiming our political power in a moment when institutions are telling us that murder, disenfranchisement, and economic displacement are allowable, legitimate, and justifiable.  Our…

  • Member Update : February 2015

    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…

  • Member Update : December 2014

    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…

  • Member Update : October 2014

    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…

  • Member Update : September 2014

    Member Update : September 2014

    Enough is Enough: WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER! The Southern Movement Assembly, held in Atlanta on August 22-23 Greetings Project South family, 300+ participants & 50 delegations from every state in the U.S South. 6 frontline assemblies.1 Southern Movement Assembly IV! And…. It ain’t over! We are STILL stronger together!  The work of the Southern Movement Assembly and the many organizations and communities…