Category: Newsletter
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We are the Collective
By Santrecheel Julian Santrecheel Julian is a graduate of the first Septima Clark Community Power Institute in 2008. She has served as Action Team assistant, Action Team Leader, and is part of the Project South staff collective as a Youth Organizer. Some are excited as they embark on this incredible journey of realization and community…
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This humiliation can’t last: Why the People’s Money Should be in a Public Bank
By Dan Leahy Dan Leahy taught public policy, political economy, and social movements for twenty-five years at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He retired in December 2008. A long-time member of Project South, Dan also worked with the Peoples Movement Assembly Working Group from 2009-2010. When Hank Paulson and his friends in the…
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Realizing Our Strengths & Our Power
For ten years, starting in October 2000, Christi played many roles on the Project South staff. She served as Administrative Director for two years and Program Director for five years. Over the last three years Christi helped steer the direction of the organization as part of the Executive Leadership Team. Christi founded the Project South…
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War Zone in the gulf coast: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights in the Gulf & the U.S.
By Colette Pichon Battle, Esq. Colette is originally from Slidell, Louisiana and co-founded Moving Forward Gulf Coast after the storms. She graduated from the first Building A Movement (BAM) Institute in 2006 and is a member of the 2010 BAM Institute cohort of Southern leaders. This article was originally published online for Amnesty International USA:…
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Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative
Child Sexual Abuse. It happens to so many of us. It’s taboo to talk about it. It gets sensationalized on the evening news. Politicians build careers appearing to be tough on offenders. And a high majority of incidents go unreported. The affects of trauma play out over generations and in our daily lives. It is…
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Celebrating Sandra Robertson: a Force for Change in Georgia
Sandra Robertson has given her energy, love, and life force as the Executive Director of the Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger for over thirty years. She has traveled every highway and back road of Georgia organizing families and building people’s movements for justice. She is transitioning out of her role as Director in June 2010,…
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change the world Powerful Youth @ Work
By Santrechee’l Julian Santrechee’l was born and raised in Atlanta and is a 12th grader at the New Schools at Carver. She participated in the first Community Power Institute (CPI) in 2008 and served as one of four Action Team Leaders in the second CPI in 2009. I am involved in the Youth Community Action…
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10 Lessons for Movement Building on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown
By Stephanie Guilloud For five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, organizers, workers, and community members participated in a public uprising using direct actions, marches, rallies, and mass convergences. Longshoremen shut down every port…
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up south – down south Defending and nurturing our liberation roots: Detroit, Haiti, and the road to the US Social Forum 2010
By Emery Wright This article is the second in a series of articles addressing how colonialism affects our liberation struggles in the US. The first article examined today’s legacy of colonialism in Puerto Rico and what a decolonization process will have to entail. Additional articles will examine relationships between Mexico, the Southern Black experience, and…
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Bridging the Gap Through Solidarity
By Lyntoria NewtonLyntoria attended the Border Movement Assembly with a Project South delegation incluing Brandon Anderson, Corina McCarthy-Fadel, and Emery Wright. The Assembly was facilitated by partner organization Southwest Workers Union in San Antonio Texas. Lyntoria will graduate from the New Schools at Carver this year and is a member of Youth Speak Truth. Just…