The Assembly of Assemblies is a convening of representatives from organized bases working on critical frontlines to resist fascism and transform our world. A national effort led by Southern organizations, rooted in Black Radical Traditions, and in practice with the ten K20 Movement Agreements, the Assembly of Assemblies will converge on April 8-11, 2027 in Tunica, Mississippi.

This is a defining moment. The conditions we face demand bold action, radical imagination, and coordinated action, along with movement infrastructure at a scale we have yet to fully realize. When we come together in disciplined practice, we begin to shape the future on our own terms.

The People’s Movement Assembly Handbook is designed for organizers, educators, activists, and community members who want to use the Peoples Movement Assembly methodology to build power in their community, on their frontline struggle, and in our social movements.

Produced in partnership with the Southern Movement Assembly anchors and leaders: Alternate ROOTS, Black Workers for Justice, Concerned Citizens for Justice, Crescent City Media Group, Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, National Council of Elders, New Jim Crow Movement, Southwest Workers Union, SpiritHouse, The Ordinary Peoples Society (TOPS), University Sin Fronteras, and Women Watch Afrika.

Special acknowledgments to Jozan Powell, Cita Cook, Dan Leahy, Drost Kokoye, and Colette Pichon Battle.

The Katrina 20 Movement Assembly Synthesis Report & Organizing Handbook is a tool and an invitation to organize.

Created following the K20 People’s Movement Assembly, the K20 Report includes thorough descriptions of the organizing and synthesis process, the full Katrina 20 Solidarity Statement, planning worksheets to develop your own assembly, and the list of organizations and groups that engaged and affirmed the process.

When we come together, agree on our direction, and practice our political values with rigor and love, we begin to shape the future on our own terms. We offer this report in the spirit of that work—something to support, strengthen, and guide your organizing in the days ahead.

When the lights go out. When the state fails. When disaster hits. Who do we call? Each other. This is why we exist. Project South exists to eliminate poverty and genocide by building strong social movements for power, rooted in Black Radical Traditions. That work is growing leadership, education, and yes, healing.

During the summer of 2025, Project South deepened our commitment to community preparation by piloting a 90-hour Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Training through our 2025 Building A Movement (BAM) Institute. Held at our sanctuary space in the woods of rural Georgia, the training brought together organizers from Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina for nine intensive days of learning, connection, and skill-building.

Eighteen participants completed the full course and are now certified Wilderness First Responders, trained to practice CPR, trauma care, bleed control, and to respond in mass-casualty events, among many other lifesaving skills.

Because youth leadership is a vital part of our work, seven children ages 5–12 also completed their own first-responder curriculum. Through this program, they built age-appropriate emergency-response skills and visited the local fire department in the community where we trained.

By grounding emergency medicine within a movement context, we transform a course traditionally designed for recreational wilderness settings into training for disciplined response in any “austere environment”—from a hurricane aftermath to a mass shooting.

Back in their home communities, participants are putting their skills into action, strengthening mutual aid liberation centers, advancing sanctuary land projects, and building the long-term resilience of communities across the South.