Project South: We All Count, We Will Not be Erased

Category: 2011 Winter

  • We Stand for Parents

    We Stand for Parents

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    By Santrecheel Julian, Youth Organizer Santrecheel Julian graduated from the first Septima Clark Community Power Institute in 2008, joined the staff as a Youth Organizer, and launched the Real Talk campaign in 2010. The Real Talk: Stand up For Parents Initiative is making great strides to ensure access to affordable and quality childcare for all!…

  • Youth Movements Rise!

    Youth Movements Rise!

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    By Taliba Obuya, YCAP Program Coordinator Taliba joined Project South staff in 2008 and is the Youth Community Action Program Coordinator. Movements and youth leadership have always complemented one another. Youth actions have always been a part of the legacy of making change and challenging power. Occupation of space was a strategic tactic used in…

  • Learning from History: Education Justice Organizing in Mississippi

    Learning from History: Education Justice Organizing in Mississippi

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    In the spirit of lifting up Southern All Stars for Project South’s 25th Anniversary, James Braggs had a conversation with Brenda Hyde, associate director of Southern Echo, Project South board member, and long time community organizer about her work in Mississippi around education reform. Project South finds evidence of community learning as a power building…

  • Examine, Dream, and Build: Building an Education Justice Movement in Atlanta

    Examine, Dream, and Build: Building an Education Justice Movement in Atlanta

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    By James Braggs, Program Coordinator James joined Project South in 2009 as a member and became full-time staff in 2010. He coordinates the Education Justice Research Collective. Here in Atlanta, we are experiencing the effects of a concerted national strategy to privatize public education and loot one of the largest and last standing sites of…

  • We are winning: This Is A Movement Moment. What Happens Next?

    We are winning: This Is A Movement Moment. What Happens Next?

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    By Stephanie Guilloud, Co-Director “We are winning” was graffitied on a wall in Seattle in 1999. The same sentence was projected onto the stark Verizon building on November 17, 2011 so it could be seen by thousands marching on the Brooklyn Bridge. Allowing ourselves to envision what it means to win is essential to building…

  • Project South & the Role of Black Liberation within the Crisis of Capitalism

    Project South & the Role of Black Liberation within the Crisis of Capitalism

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    By Emery Wright, Co-Director Emery, born and raised in Atlanta, joined Project South in 2004. Co-founder of Black youth organization the Nia Project, Emery participated on the Gulf Coast Solidarity & Justice Tour, directs the Youth Community Action Program, and created the Septima Clark Community Power Institute. A foundation program officer with very little experience…