Category: 2014 Spring

By Stephanie Guilloud, Co-Director Within 24 hours of George Zimmerman’s acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin, people all over the country responded. The leadership of the Southern Movement Assembly made a call to action – a rapid response campaign to walk from Jacksonville to Sanford with two demands: to fire Angela Corey and to…

By Emery Wright, Project South Co-Director Edited from the transcript of a talk Emery gave at the Black Left Unity Network Meeting in December 2013. The talk was originally published in the Black Activist Journal, found at www.jblun.org Regardless of our different eras, Project South has maintained a strategic emphasis and focus on the South.…

By Les Etienne, Education & Research Director “In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by…

Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide is the full name of our organization. The political roots of our name have never been more evident than they are today in 2014. What do we mean by genocide in the context of the U.S. South? In the founding and naming, part of the…