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Southern Peoples Initiative Launch
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] April 1, 2016 For immediate release For more information contact: Ash-Lee Henderson, Project South Regional Organizer ash-lee@prjs.palantetech.coop 423-794-6434 Southern People’s Initiatives: Building a Southern Freedom Movement for the 21st Century Communities unite to protect and defend themselves against state violence, create peoples democracies and social movement governance, and build a new…
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March 2016 Member Update
The national climate of hostility, hate, and violence is an expression of the slow build of the Right over many decades. Project South recognizes the danger of these times while also lifting up the courageous resistance of communities, families, and people living on the frontlines. Forces are rising in the South. Organizations have been building…
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EVERYDAY IS SELMA
By Stephanie Guilloud, Co-Director The 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act is August 6, 2015. The southern grassroots fight that led to this critical victory was commemorated on March 8. Project South and 15 other organizations from the Southern Movement Assembly joined together to participate in the 50th Commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma…
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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…
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Member Update : January 2015
REGIONAL UPDATES: BAM Institute: STOP KILLING US Youth Power for Transformation We revolt, simply because, for many reasons, we cannot breathe. – Franz Fanon The Black Radical Tradition is rooted in the U.S. South and works to advance a larger Freedom Movement that calls for the liberation of all oppressed people. This is the basis of Project…
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YOUTH SUMMIT 2014!
Activating Youth & Students to Build Youth Power! Saturday, May 31st from 10AM-4PM Project South: 9 Gammon Ave Atlanta, GA Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger Community Room It is our privilege to cordially invite you to Youth Summit 2014! The Youth Summit is designed to activate youth through community building with young people in South Atlanta and surrounding communities in Georgia. The Summit will include youth-led workshops on the National Student…
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October Monthly Update 2013
This fall, Project South celebrates our partnerships! We are so thrilled to collaborate closely with some of the most inspiring organizations in the South. From working with Gulf Coast organizers on climate justice to connecting Women Watch Afrika to youth work in Atlanta to partnering with Alternate ROOTS for an upcoming BAM, Project South works to…
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Injustice in the GA Prison System
The Story Behind the Video: Injustice in the Georgia Prison System On December 9th coordination of inmates. A fact finding mission made up of community and legal advocates, led by The Ordinary Peoples Society (TOPS) was allowed in to the prisons on December 30th On December 31st with a hammer by correctional officers while handcuffed.…
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50 years ago: Atlanta in 1963
HISTORY OF ATLANTA IN 1963 January – Leroy Johnson, an attorney who had advised demonstrators in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), became the first African American in the Georgia State Senate since Reconstruction and the first in the Georgia General Assembly since 1907. February – The headmaster of the exclusive Episcopalian Lovett…
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South by Southwest Tour
read more and follow the tour at http://niqua2013.blogspot.com/ “The workshops were more of an open space for people to share their stories and the work they do to create democratic education in their communities. We also had 16 Home-based groups that met everyday for a hour. My groups was Counter Cultural Education, which was…