Category: Newsletter
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Our legacy is our path forward Celebrating the Project South Board members
By Christi Ketchum Bowman Where in the world can you meet so many committed, supportive and hardworking people working for justice? I have had the pleasure of working with people who fit that description for the last eight years. I’m talking about the Board members of Project South. The Board has been a major part…
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Free Puerto Rico Free ourselves: Remembering Colonial Legacies in the 21st Century
By Emery Wright This article is the first in a series of feature articles addressing how colonialism affects our liberation struggles in the US. Additional articles will examine relationships between the colonial legacy of Mexico and the immigrant struggles in the US today as well as an extensive examination of the internal colonial legacy of…
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Septima Clark Community Power Institute: Community Change & Youth Leadership Development
By Emery Wright Emery Wright, a member of the Executive Leadership Team, co-founded the Nia Project in Boston in 1998. Nia was a Black youth organization in Boston, South Carolina, and Atlanta committed to youth leadership development for community organizing. In July 2008, over 50 young people, parents and community members gathered to learn, discuss,…
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Bailout the banks, Tank the hospital
By Rita Valenti A founding member of Project South, Rita has been an active board member for over fifteen years. She co-led the Health, Healing, and Environmental Justice Working Group for the US Social Forum in 2007. Rita served in the Georgia State Legislature from 1990-92 and fought for single-payer healthcare for all Georgians. She…
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Power & Public Space: Movement Building at the Americas Social Forum through the creative use of public space, art and public dialogue.
By Ernesto Cuevas Ernesto Cuevas, a graduate of the first BAM Institute in 2006, worked with young people to develop a public art process for the US Social Forum. Since June of 2007, he has launched community-based mural projects with young people across the country through his organization Red Cielo. Ernesto participated on a Project…
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Many Hands Built This
Leadership & the United States Social Forum The first-ever US Social Forum (USSF) has been a broad-based effort of many organizations working across regions, sectors, communities, and organizing styles to manifest an ambitious vision. From the beginning of the process in 2004, community leaders made it clear that a successful USSF process would focus on…
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Building Power with our People, Across Communities and within Ourselves: Notes from the Southeast Social Forum
By Emery Wright “How many people here have been incarcerated or know someone who’s in jail right now?” The backroom in a local museum in Jackson was filled with a few dozen folks from Mississippi. All hands raised. “How many people currently don’t have a job or know someone that doesn’t have a job?” The…
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Through the Eye of a Hurricane – Capitalism at its “best” What are we prepared to do?
By Jerome Scott & Walda Katz-Fishman The unnatural aftermath of hurricane Katrina unmasked the nightmare of global capitalism for working class women, children and men of all racial, ethnic and nationality groups. The state response exposed the U.S. government as it exists primarily to serve the interests of the richest global corporations. Once the flood…