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📣 Project South is heading to Columbus, GA! Project South Staff Attorney Sofía Montez will join a Migrant Justice Panel hosted by the Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN) to discuss the ongoing struggle for migrant justice across the South. Sofía will share insights from Project South’s years of organizing and advocacy to shut down the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, highlighting the importance of community-led resistance, collective action, and the fight to end immigrant detention. ✊🏾 Join us for an important conversation about migrant justice, community power, and the continued work to build a South where all people can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

📣 Join us tomorrow, October 29! Project South’s Movement Organizing Senior Strategist, Stephanie Guilloud, will join movement leaders for an important conversation hosted by Muslims for Just Futures (MJF): The Next 25: Movement Investment Prospectus Webinar. Building on MJF's Convergence 2.0: Futures Free of State Terror, this special virtual gathering will launch the complete Movement Investment Prospectus and the Capital for Just Futures campaign, outlining a bold 25-year vision for divesting from the War on Terror and investing in the collective power, resources, and infrastructure communities need to shape their own futures. 🗓️ Thursday, October 29, 2026 ⏰ 12:00–1:30 PM CT | 1:00–2:30 PM ET | 10:00–11:30 AM PT 💻 Virtual Webinar 🎤 Featured Speakers: Darakshan Raja | Executive Director, Muslims for Just Futures U.S. Representative Delia C. Ramirez Stephanie Guilloud | Senior Strategist, Project South Sahar Pirzada | Director, HEART Loan Tran | Executive Director, Rising Majority Lailah Said | Manager, Beloved Community Incubator 🔗 Register here: https://form.jotform.com/262784476932168

**NEW DATE: NOVEMBER 7** 🏡 BROWNSVILLE HOMECOMING & PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY! We’re coming together to honor our history, celebrate our resistance, and organize for our collective future. Join us Saturday, November 7, from 1–6 PM at the Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon for the Brownsville Homecoming & People’s Movement Assembly. Community members from across our South Atlanta neighborhoods will gather to uplift the legacy of Black Reconstruction, commemorate our community’s resistance during the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, and strategize around the issues facing our neighborhoods today. Through the PMA process, we’ll identify community priorities, strengthen how we govern and organize together, and establish a Brownsville delegation to carry our collective voice into upcoming movement assemblies and governance spaces. And bring the little ones! We’ll have a concurrent Children’s Movement Assembly for ages 3–12! Our Brownsville neighborhoods include: Carver Homes, South Atlanta/Brownsville, Joyland, Pittsburgh, Mechanicsville, Summerhill, Peoplestown, Thomasville Heights, Lakewood, Adair Park, Amal Heights, and Chosewood. 📅 Saturday, November 7, 2026 ⏰ 1:00-6:00 PM 📍 Mutual Aid Liberation Center, 9 Gammon Ave, Atlanta, GA. 30315 📌 Register with the QR code or at the link in our bio! Come on home. Bring your people. Bring your stories. Together, we’ll honor where we’ve been and organize for where we’re going. #BrownsvilleHomecoming #PeoplesMovementAssembly #SouthAtlanta #Brownsville #CommunityPower #BlackReconstruction #PeoplePower

📢 UPDATE: EVENT POSTPONED: 📢 Brownsville Homecoming & People’s Movement Assembly (PMA) Postponed After thoughtful conversations with community members, partners, and staff, and in a spirit of collective care, accountability, and love, Project South has made the decision to postpone the Brownsville Homecoming & People’s Movement Assembly (PMA) due to the potential impact of Hurricane Isaias and the State of Emergency declared in Georgia and other states. The safety and well-being of our communities remain our highest priority. Project South is reaching out directly to all confirmed and registered participants and partners to share this update. We ask that you help spread the word to anyone in your networks who may have planned to attend. Over the next two weeks, we will work to confirm a new date for the Brownsville Homecoming & PMA and share that information with our community as soon as possible. We extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who has poured their time, energy, and love into organizing this gathering. To our Brownsville community members, youth leaders, partners, organizers, and Project South staff, thank you for your commitment to this process and to building collective power in our communities. This work continues, and we look forward to coming together when it is safe to do so. We are postponed, not canceled! In solidarity and love, Project South

✊🏾 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORGANIZERS: BUILDING POWER FOR THE LONG HAUL ⭐ DOWNLOAD THE SNAPSHOT here (or at the link in bio): bit.ly/OCTSIT Social movements are in a 10-year fight to prevent multigenerational, global fascism. We need strategies that advance short, medium, and long-term visions, moving us beyond collective survival toward building lasting people power. Here's a snapshot of the October 2026 Situation Report, produced by the Assembly of Assemblies Synthesis & Recon Team. Our hope is that this report will help organizers and movements: 👉🏾 Spark critical conversations 👉🏾 Sharpen collective strategy 👉🏾 Identify opportunities for action 👉🏾 Strengthen our collective preparation for the struggles ahead The future is not predetermined. We have a role in shaping what comes next. 📖 READ & DOWNLOAD THE SNAPSHOT here (or at the link in bio): bit.ly/OCTSIT 📖 READ & DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT for deeper analysis, strategic insights, and opportunities for organizers: bit.ly/OCTSITREP 🔗 Learn more about the Assembly of Assemblies: assemblyofassemblies.my.canva.site #AssemblyOfAssemblies #SituationReport #MovementBuilding #PeoplePower #CollectiveLiberation #SocialMovements #MovementStrategy

UPDATE: POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE 🏡 BROWNSVILLE HOMECOMING & PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY! We’re coming together to honor our history, celebrate our resistance, and organize for our collective future. Join us Saturday, October 10, from 1–6 PM at the Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon for the Brownsville Homecoming & People’s Movement Assembly. Community members from across our South Atlanta neighborhoods will gather to uplift the legacy of Black Reconstruction, commemorate our community’s resistance during the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, and strategize around the issues facing our neighborhoods today. Through the PMA process, we’ll identify community priorities, strengthen how we govern and organize together, and establish a Brownsville delegation to carry our collective voice into upcoming movement assemblies and governance spaces. And bring the little ones! We’ll have a concurrent Children’s Movement Assembly for ages 3–12! Our Brownsville neighborhoods include: Carver Homes, South Atlanta/Brownsville, Joyland, Pittsburgh, Mechanicsville, Summerhill, Peoplestown, Thomasville Heights, Lakewood, Adair Park, Amal Heights, and Chosewood. 📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026 ⏰ 1:00-6:00 PM 📍 Mutual Aid Liberation Center, 9 Gammon Ave, Atlanta, GA. 30315 📌 Register with the QR code or at the link in our bio! Come on home. Bring your people. Bring your stories. Together, we’ll honor where we’ve been and organize for where we’re going. #BrownsvilleHomecoming #PeoplesMovementAssembly #SouthAtlanta #Brownsville #CommunityPower #BlackReconstruction #PeoplePower

📣 Introducing our October 2026 Situation Report, produced by the Assembly of Assemblies Synthesis & Recon Team. 🔗 Download the report here (or at link in bio): bit.ly/OCTSITREP Inspired by the reports used in emergency preparedness and crisis response to track changing conditions during disasters, our SitReps are designed as practical tools for grassroots organizers: to pay attention to emerging threats, identify patterns across different frontlines, forecast what may be coming, and make strategic interventions where possible. This is the second of four planned reports. Some of the questions we ask in this report: 🔸 What future is being built around us in the now? 🔸 What infrastructure works to make that future possible? 🔸 Where are the techno-fascist state’s contradictions, dependencies, and choke points? 🔸 What can organized people disrupt now? 🔸 How can today’s struggles become opportunities to practice governance and build power? 🔸 What is the world we want to live in? 📖 Read and share the report with your networks. We hope that it can be used to spark conversation, sharpen strategy, and strengthen our collective preparation. 🔗 Download the report here (or at link in bio): bit.ly/OCTSITREP 🔗 For more information, visit: assemblyofassemblies.my.canva.site And tell us: What patterns are you seeing on the ground where you stand?

On September 26, 175+ women from every state will come together in Houston to train, organize, strategize, and begin building what comes next. @womensmarch is convening feminists from across the country to connect, strengthen our collective power, and build the infrastructure needed for the work ahead. 📍 Houston, TX | September 26 🎟️ For tickets, visit womensmarch.com/conveningtickets * Project South is excited to be partnering with Women's March this year to train up a cohort of community leaders in all 50 states + DC and Puerto Rico to organize Women's Assemblies. Over the next year, hundreds will gather in assemblies to discuss how gender is used by authoritarians to divide, control, and demonize. They will discuss visions and strategies to activate the power of women, including transwomen and nonbinary people, setting our own agendas and taking action to build what we need in our communities. We are proud to partner with Women's March to move from mobilization to organizing, and from isolation to collective unity. It is time to move from reacting to attacks to building solutions for the long haul.

📢 TOMORROW! Project South's next Local to Global Webinar: 25 Years of Fighting the "War on Terror"! 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/NOWOT25 🗓️ Friday, September 11, 2026 @ 1-2pm ET The so-called “War on Terror” intensified aggressive imperial military occupations; expanded domestic surveillance; created DHS and ICE; and further shaped legal frameworks to counter dissent in the United States and around the globe. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we recognize how the mechanisms for U.S. violence upon the Global South are informed by, and reinforce, the violence of the police state at home. As we build our strategies to protect Black people, Muslim communities, migrants, and all those facing criminalization and persecution in 2026, what lessons do we need to sharpen and apply from 25 years of fighting back against the “War on Terror”? Project South Staff Attorney and member of the Countering State Repression Initiative Sofía Verónica Montez will moderate a discussion on the current moment with frontline organizers working across global borders. Speakers: Khury Petersen-Smith - Institute for Policy Studies Fatema Ahmad - Muslim Justice League Nisrin Elamin - Sudan Solidarity Collective Moderator: Sofía Verónica Montez, Project South

Breaking ICE: The Link Between Injustice at Home and Abroad Project South Staff Attorney and member of the Countering State Repression Initiative, Sofía Verónica Montez, will be speaking on September 24the from 7-9 PM at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church about the connections between state violence at home and U.S. violence abroad, and what we can do to protect our communities. Sofía will discuss how the current violence and repression carried out by ICE connects to the genocide in Gaza and the war against Iran, examining how systems of militarization, surveillance, detention, displacement, and state repression cross borders and affect our communities. The conversation will explore how we can build solidarity and keep one another safe across differences of nationality, immigration status, and background. THE ESCALATION Learn how the United States has intensified violence, repression, and militarization against people at home and abroad, and how these struggles are connected. THE CALL TO ACTION Gain practical strategies and resources for protecting your neighbors, responding to state repression, and strengthening community safety. BUILD COMMUNITY Meet others committed to solidarity, collective safety, and building stronger communities across borders. Join us for an evening of political education, conversation, and collective action as we examine the connections between struggles at home and abroad, and consider what solidarity demands of us now.

📣 SAVE THE DATE: BROWNSVILLE HOMECOMING & PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ASSEMBLY! Mark your calendars to join Project South for our annual Brownsville Homecoming, a community celebration in Atlanta’s historic Brownsville neighborhood honoring its history of Black resistance and community power. Come together for fellowship, food, kids’ activities, and political education, as we work to build neighborhood power and celebrate Brownsville’s past, present, and future. As part of this year’s Homecoming, we’ll also be holding a Brownsville People’s Movement Assembly (PMA), a space for our neighbors to come together, share what we’re experiencing, identify the challenges facing Brownsville, and develop collective strategies to shape the neighborhood’s future. Brownsville’s history is a history of resistance. Its future belongs to the people. Organized by Project South & the Hunger Coalition of Atlanta! 📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026 | 1:00 - 6:00 PM 📍 Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon 9 Gammon Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30315 Save the date and stay tuned for more details! #Brownsville #Atlanta #PeoplePower #PeoplesMovementAssembly #ProjectSouth

🔗 FOR MORE ON K20 MOVEMENT AGREEMENTS AND THE ASSEMBLY OF ASSEMBLIES, VISIT: bit.ly/AOA2027 *** One year ago, at the Katrina 20 People’s Movement Assembly, we collectively affirmed the K20 Movement Agreements, ten practices to help guide our movements in the years ahead. Today, we can see those agreements taking root. From assemblies focused on dismantling the prison industrial complex to gatherings centered on the power of arts and culture, people across the country are coming together to understand the conditions we face, build relationships across movements, develop shared strategies, and strengthen our collective power. As we mark another anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we remember what the South has shown us again and again: when our communities are abandoned, attacked, or left to fend for ourselves, we organize. We care for one another. We build what we need. We resist. ✊🏾 📲 Read through the carousel and consider: Which Movement Agreements are showing up on your frontlines? How are you putting them into practice? Tell us what this work looks like in your community! 📖 We also invite you to revisit the K20 Report and K20 Movement Agreements, learn more about the Assembly of Assemblies, and explore how these practices can take root in your own community and organizing: bit.ly/AOA2027

📣 DEADLINE THIS MONDAY, AUGUST 31st! APPLY TODAY: bit.ly/PSMedic **** Project South’s Community First Response 9-Day Training! Project South is continuing to build community capacity for emergency medical response by offering our next Wilderness First Responder certification course. This intensive training focuses on assessing, stabilizing, and caring for people in situations where illness or injury requires immediate action and professional medical help may be delayed. While Wilderness First Responder certification is traditionally designed for outdoor recreation and remote travel, often a privileged space, at Project south we are intentionally bringing these skills into frontline communities where access to timely emergency medical care is often limited. Whether because of underinvestment, climate disasters, state violence, or other social crises, many of our neighborhoods cannot rely on immediate emergency response. This training equips community members with the knowledge and confidence to provide life-saving care when it matters most. These life-saving medical mutual aid and first response skills are deeply rooted in the pioneering work of Black and Brown street medics who provided life-saving care in communities facing barriers to emergency medical services. The Black Radical Traditions has always taught us that liberation is holistic. Healing our people is political work. A community that can treat its own wounds, literally, is one that will survive and thrive. Bringing these skills back into our neighborhoods is more important than ever. This First Responder course is an excellent complement to any previous first aid training. However no previous training is needed. The course runs for 9 full days, with over 80 hours of focused, life saving information, practical application, and real world scenarios. Classes meet from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day, with two evening sessions that continue until 10:00 p.m. It will be held at Project South’s wooded sanctuary land in rural Georgia. Space is limited. Join us! This is for your block, your organization, and our collective movement. Someone needs to be ready when it matters most. Be that person.

Resharing a few lessons from Hurricane Katrina as we approach the anniversary and face today's crises. 1. Disasters are Political Disasters reveal the political and social fault lines already present in our society: who is deemed worthy of rescue, who is left behind, and whose lives are considered expendable. 2. Mutual Aid is Essential: Solidarity, Not Charity In the hours and days after the storm, communities across the Gulf Coast came together to rescue and house the displaced, and to deliver medical and relief services in the gaps left behind. Mutual aid must be a deeply rooted part of our social justice organizing. 3. Disaster Capitalism is a Brutal Reality Rather than investing in recovery for the people most affected, local leaders partnered with developers and corporations to reshape the Gulf Coast in ways that deepened inequality and sidelined working-class communities. Social movement organizing must stand with frontline communities to defend against displacement: to fight for a just recovery and a right to return. 4. Media Shapes the Narrative In Katrina’s aftermath mainstream media criminalized Black survivors, fueling state brutality and vigilante attacks on Black communities. To resist such harm, movement groups must challenge corporate media and reclaim the power to tell their own stories. Our storytelling is an act of survival, defense, and strategy. It is social movement infrastructure. 5. Frontline Communities are the Experts Frontline communities are often the ones with the deepest wisdom about survival. Look to them for solutions that are grounded in people’s lived experiences and cultural histories. What Do We Do Now? We keep building! We prepare our movements to meet the disasters to come. We study movement history to learn how people resisted and fought back in the face of abandonment and violence. We mobilize people power. When systems collapse, it’s our collective action that carries us through. Our organizing shows what’s possible when we refuse to leave one another behind. This is how we survive, and this is how prepare for the next disaster and beyond: for a future rooted in liberation. We are stronger together.

FOR MORE ON THE ASSEMBLY OF ASSEMBLIES AND TO DOWNLOAD THE K20 REPORT: bit.ly/AOA2027 One year ago thousands of people across the Gulf South held events and commemorations marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. As part of a powerful week of action in New Orleans, Project South co-facilitated the K20 People’s Movement Assembly alongside our allies and in partnership with the Katrina 20 Local Planning Committee. More than 200 people gathered together at the K20 PMA to honor the lessons and visions that have grown out of the decades since Katrina. Including the networks of grassroots power built in the face of disaster, displacement, and state abandonment. A year later, the lessons of Katrina are more important than ever. Across the country, we continue to see the state fail to protect our communities. We see it in the response to extreme climate disasters, the weakening of our food safety net and public health systems, the kidnapping of our immigrant community members, and the horrific deaths inside ICE detention. From power outages in Gary and Memphis, to Black people killed by police and the National Guard, working-class Black communities face many of the same questions Katrina asked us to confront: Who is protected? Who is abandoned? Who is criminalized? And what do we do when the systems that are supposed to keep us safe instead cause more harm? Katrina taught us that a climate disaster is never just about the storm itself. What happened in New Orleans was also shaped by racism, public policy, corporate extraction, and government neglect. But Katrina also showed us what people can do when we organize together. Those are lessons we still need today. This weekend, take time to reconnect with the lessons and commitments that emerged from K20: - Revisit the K20 Report and reflect on the lessons from the gathering. - Read and share the K20 Movement Agreements. - Learn more about the Assembly of Assemblies planned for April 2027. - - Bring the Movement Agreements into your community, organization, and everyday organizing. - Gather with others to discuss how these practices can strengthen our movements and build collective power.

“We can no longer afford to mobilize in reaction to what is happening. We have to determine a political direction and alignment towards a real vision.” - Adelina Nicholls, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights The ATL Get Ready team named criminalization as a shared reality and a political baseline for our alignment and collective action. Over the past six months, we’ve collaborated on the “Sanctuary Zone” campaign to build a community safety net across the city. We wanted to share some of what we’ve learned about what it takes for a coalition to come together and build the infrastructure needed to practice real community safety in this time of rising fascism. Thank you @wagingnv for allowing us to tell the story of this campaign. Read more about the campaign and the lessons it offers to those who may be building something similar on their own frontlines: bit.ly/3UfNnWv And a special shout out and thank you to the ATL Get Ready team, including GLAHR, Project South, Barred Business, Black Men Build, Southeast Immigrant Rights Network, Union of Southern Service Workers, SNAP-Co, EndStateAtl, Hunger Coalition of Atlanta, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Atlanta People’s Campaign, El Refugio, Casa Alterna, Critical Resistance, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and everyone else who worked hard to make this campaign happen! #ATLGetReady #SanctuaryZones #MutualAid #CommunityDefense #Atlanta #PeoplePower

📢 Project South's next Local to Global Webinar! 25 Years of Fighting the "War on Terror" Friday, September 11, 2026 @ 1-2pm ET The so-called “War on Terror” intensified aggressive imperial military occupations; expanded domestic surveillance; created DHS and ICE; and further shaped legal frameworks to counter dissent in the United States and around the globe. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we recognize how the mechanisms for U.S. violence upon the Global South are informed by, and reinforce, the violence of the police state at home. As we build our strategies to protect Black people, Muslim communities, migrants, and all those facing criminalization and persecution in 2026, what lessons do we need to sharpen and apply from 25 years of fighting back against the “War on Terror”? Project South Staff Attorney and member of the Countering State Repression Initiative Sofía Verónica Montez will moderate a discussion on the current moment with frontline organizers working across global borders. Speakers: Khury Petersen-Smith - Institute for Policy Studies Fatema Ahmad - Muslim Justice League Nisrin Elamin - Sudan Solidarity Collective Moderator: Sofía Verónica Montez, Project South Register today: bit.ly/NOWOT25

Check out the work of one of our fiscally-sponsored organizations, Sudan Solidarity Collective, as they gear up for the next installment of #WORKSHOPS4SUDAN: ✊ How to Fight Fascism: Lessons from Chicago with @rdgkelley 📅 Thursday, August 20th, 2026 🕡 6 PM EDT - 8 PM EDT What can past and present grassroots movements teach us about resisting state violence and building an abolitionist future? Join us for an essential workshop facilitated by renowned historian Robin D. G. Kelley (author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination amongst many other books and essays) We’ll dive into the history of Chicago-based movements against police violence and repression, focusing on the 21st-century organizers surrounding the killing of Rekia Boyd. We will explore how activists utilized: ✨Direct action & legal strategies ✨International human rights appeals ✨Alternative spaces for abolitionist practice ✨Broadened definitions of state violence (including systemic issues like school closures) Register and donate to support here: https://chuffed.org/project/workshops4sudan [Suggested donation: $40 - $100 per workshop. Your contributions reflect our deep appreciation for the time and expertise of our instructors, as well as the urgent, ongoing needs in Sudan.] #Abolition #BlackRadicalTradition #RobinDGKelley

📣 JOIN US! Project South’s Community First Response 9-Day Training! Project South is continuing to build community capacity for emergency medical response by offering our next Wilderness First Responder certification course. This intensive training focuses on assessing, stabilizing, and caring for people in situations where illness or injury requires immediate action and professional medical help may be delayed. While Wilderness First Responder certification is traditionally designed for outdoor recreation and remote travel, often a privileged space, at Project south we are intentionally bringing these skills into frontline communities where access to timely emergency medical care is often limited. Whether because of underinvestment, climate disasters, state violence, or other social crises, many of our neighborhoods cannot rely on immediate emergency response. This training equips community members with the knowledge and confidence to provide life-saving care when it matters most. These life-saving medical mutual aid and first response skills are deeply rooted in the pioneering work of Black and Brown street medics who provided life-saving care in communities facing barriers to emergency medical services. The Black Radical Traditions has always taught us that liberation is holistic. Healing our people is political work. A community that can treat its own wounds, literally, is one that will survive and thrive. Bringing these skills back into our neighborhoods is more important than ever. This First Responder course is an excellent complement to any previous first aid training. However no previous training is needed. The course runs for 9 full days, with over 80 hours of focused, life saving information, practical application, and real world scenarios. Classes meet from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day, with two evening sessions that continue until 10:00 p.m. It will be held at Project South’s wooded sanctuary land in rural Georgia. Space is limited. Join us! This is for your block, your organization, and our collective movement. Someone needs to be ready when it matters most. Be that person. APPLY ONLINE HERE: bit.ly/PSMedic

At Project South, when we say we are stronger together, we acknowledge that our movements are built by organizations, grassroots groups, communities, and people united in struggle. We believe that powerful social movements rooted in collective action and people power are the foundation of our collective liberation. As we work to keep each other safe in the streets, we must also work to protect our movements and organizations. The State Department recently released a report timed to coincide with the July ministerial on “Far Left Terrorism.” The report, centered on Cuba, is another political weapon aimed at discrediting social justice activism. It echoes 1940s McCarthyism and 1960s COINTELPRO attacks on social movements. Alongside the National Security Memo (NSPM-7), the Trump regime is putting in place legal mechanisms to target anyone who challenges the West, whiteness, or U.S. policies. In other words, all of us who stand against fascism. These measures justify more repression and control by the state while discrediting the work of people advocating for racial, economic, environmental, and social justice. As Toni Morrison reminds us in Racism & Fascism, fascist regimes seek to “criminalize the enemy” and “maintain, at all costs, silence.” As attacks on our movements intensify, and as the state continues to kill, disappear, detain, and intimidate our communities, our response must be rooted in solidarity and organized resistance to fascism in all its forms. This is a time to be bold, to be loud, and to connect across our differences. Project South remains firm in our belief that social movements are the primary force capable of rebuilding our world. That is precisely why this regime continues to target our movements and the communities organizing power from below. Let us all remain unapologetically and boldly antifascist. And let us stand together in defense of one another against every attempt to divide, intimidate, criminalize, and silence our communities. ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE - Create organizational protection plans: bit.ly/GetReadyZine - Recruit Sanctuary Zones in Atlanta: bit.ly/sanctuaryzone-atl - Join and follow Project South!

SAVE THE DATE! Project South's 40th Anniversary Celebration & Membership Assembly We invite you to join Project South in Atlanta for a weekend of radical joy, reflection, and collective visioning. We'll be hosting an evening celebration on Friday and our Membership Movement Assembly during the day on Saturday! 📍 Mark your calendars: 📅 December 4 & 5, 2026 More details and registration info coming soon!

This past June, Project South hosted a 2-day Community Medic Training, and it was a powerful step toward building the skills our communities need to care for one another in times of crisis. 📸 Swipe through to check out some photos from the training! Some of the biggest takeaways for attendees: 🩺 1. Focusing on patient assessment. Learning how to quickly evaluate a person's condition and respond to their most immediate needs. 🏥 2. Building emergency community clinics. Exploring how our mutual-aid spaces can be safely transformed into fully operational emergency response clinics when access to traditional healthcare is limited. 🩹 3. Creating intentional first aid and trauma kits. Understanding what supplies and medications are essential and how to improvise with everyday items when resources are scarce. Deep gratitude to the organizers, trainers, and everyone who showed up ready to learn! At Project South we know that learning together is one way we grow our power, and every new skill strengthens our collective ability to keep each other safe. #WeKeepUsSafe #MutualAid #CommunityMedics #SkillUp #FirstResponse #ProjectSouth

At this year’s Juneteenth celebration, Project South staff members led a hands-on session introducing community members to the basics of first response and emergency preparedness. From responding to medical emergencies to building our collective capacity to care for one another during moments of crisis and state repression, these are practical skills that help us better prepare for whatever lies ahead! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn, ask questions, and practice alongside us. #Juneteenth #ProjectSouth #CommunityCare #FirstResponse #EmergencyPreparedness #CommunityPower #PeoplePower

DONATE TODAY to Support Food Sovereignty, Not Food Deserts: bit.ly/FundPS26 Help grow the Umoja Garden! Every donation through Project South’s Summer of Solidarity Campaign helps us grow our gardening program and provide healthy organic food to our neighbors. At the Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon’s Umoja Garden, we gather each Thursday for community garden days where people learn to grow their own food, share knowledge across generations, care for the land, and cultivate collective power. Your monthly contribution supports this work. Support community-powered food sovereignty today! Donate here: bit.ly/FundPS26

Another inspiring summer of building young leaders! 🌟 Project South just wrapped up the 13th Annual Septima Clark Community Power Institute (SCCPI), our summer leadership and community organizing fellowship for Atlanta-area teens ages 13–18. Over the past several weeks, more than 20 incredible teens came together to build leadership skills, deepen their understanding of social justice, and explore how they can create meaningful change in their communities. Inspired by the educational philosophy of civil rights leader Septima Clark, SCCPI is rooted in the principles of popular education, where learning happens through dialogue, creativity, hands-on projects, and collective action. This is a place where we hope youth are able to connect movement history to their own personal experience in ways that will continue long after the summer ends. For nearly 15 years, SCCPI has been shaping young leaders, amplifying youth voices, and building grassroots youth power. We’re so proud of this year’s fellows and can’t wait to see where they go next! #ProjectSouth #SCCPI #YouthLeadership #YouthOrganizing #CommunityOrganizing

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