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Celebrating 40 Years of Southern Movement Building! Join Project South on Friday, December 4, 2026 from 5:30-9:00PM as we gather with friends, partners, movement family, and community for a celebration featuring food, music, dancing, and fellowship at our homebase in Atlanta. Together, we’ll celebrate 40 years of building power, strengthening movements, and advancing liberation across the U.S. South and beyond. After a night of dancing and fellowship, we’re building a future together at our first-ever Membership Assembly on Saturday, December 5, 2026 from 10:00AM-2:00PM. We invite members, partners, funders, community, and other supporters to join us this day and help shape the next chapter of Project South. RSVP TODAY AT: https://bit.ly/PS40TH

**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: 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

We’re so excited to share that Project South’s Legal & Advocacy Director Azadeh N. Shahshahani and our Staff Attorney Sofía Verónica Montez have published an important new article in Dædalus, the renowned journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In “Colonialism Turned Inward: Importing U.S. Militarism into Local Police Departments,” they examine the connections between U.S. militarism abroad and the growing militarization of local police departments at home. Congratulations to Azadeh and Sofía on this powerful contribution to the ongoing conversation about militarism, policing, and state violence. 📚 Please read and share! Link in our bio! * ABSTRACT: Policing in the United States has become increasingly militarized, partly due to the transfer of military equipment to local police departments. Many law enforcement agencies throughout the United States have also received training in population-­control tactics from Israel. Armed with these tools and tactics, police agencies often use excessive force against grassroots protesters resisting state repression. Across the country, proposals for urban warfare training centers, commonly known as Cop Cities, are on the rise. At the same time, the federal legal code for terrorism drafted to suppress domestic solidarity with Palestinian liberation has been weaponized, increasing the opportunities for police to victimize protesters. The struggle against increasingly militarized state force is intimately related to the Palestinian fight against settler colonialism. Awareness of this international connection is essential to combating the offenses led or supported by Western imperialism.

A few seconds of what it feels like to wake up and walk through our Sanctuary Land in rural Georgia. 🌲 Almost four years ago, Project South and our partner, the Hunger Coalition of Atlanta, acquired 44 acres of land south of Atlanta. Alongside our work at the Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon, the Sanctuary Land is another step toward building lasting movement infrastructure rooted in land, agriculture, gathering, rest, and community. There’s still plenty of work ahead as we continue cleaning up, rebuilding, and dreaming about what this space can become. We’re excited to share more updates from the land this year, and to welcome more of our community here as it grows. For now, here’s a little glimpse of a quiet morning on the land. 🌱 #Georgia #Nature #Southernland #SanctuarySpace #ProjectSouth

📣 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

📣 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.

In honor of Black August, Project South is resharing book recommendations from our staff to honor the month. This list features organizers, freedom fighters, and visionaries who have resisted incarceration, fought for liberation from behind prison walls, organized to dismantle the prison system, worked alongside communities to win reparations for state violence, and strengthened our movements through poetry, political education, and organizing. May we spend this month in study, reflection, and action. #BlackAugust #BookRecommendations

📣 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!

🔗 Support Project South's Summer Solidarity Campaign: bit.ly/FundPS26 ✊🏾 Help Us Build the Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon! The Mutual Aid Liberation Center (MALC) @ 9 Gammon, a collaborative project of Project South and the Hunger Coalition of Atlanta, is housed in a 70-year-old building that was once a community center and school. Every day, we care for this historic space while imagining what it can become for generations to come. Located in South Atlanta, MALC sits within 10-historically Black neighborhoods in what was once Brownsville, one of the first communities established by formerly-enslaved Black people after emancipation. As a Black-led organization in a rapidly gentrifying area, we are committed to honoring Brownsville’s legacy by organizing alongside residents, preserving local history, and helping build its future. We know this place matters. Even during the hottest summer months, when the air conditioning fails, the internet goes down, or the power cuts out, we continue to open our doors and do the work. More importantly, our community continues to show up with us, reminding us that this space belongs to the people who need it most. Today, MALC is a home for movement organizing, political education, mutual aid, food distribution, leadership development, and community gatherings. But the building’s aging infrastructure is limiting what it can support. Your monthly contribution helps us maintain this historic space today while ensuring it can continue serving our communities for the next 100 years. It also brings us closer to the future envisioned in this rendering by @ateliercoryhenry: a fully-renovated campus designed to meet our community’s growing social, climate, and economic needs. Imagine community gardens, playgrounds, affordable housing, meeting spaces, and green gathering spaces! You can help us keep MALC running today in the short-term, and help us build the future our communities deserve for the long-term! 🔗 Donate today: bit.ly/FundPS26 — 📸 Image Credit: Design and concept by ATELIER CORY HENRY

☀️ DONATE TODAY: bit.ly/FundPS26 Support Project South's Summer Solidarity Campaign! At Project South, we know that we keep each other safe. Your donation helps us: ✊🏽 Train Community First Responders We’re training up community responders. We’ve trained up with more than 100 people though our first-response skills-shares, workshops, and trainings this past year, helping our folks to learn the skills they need to protect and support their neighbors. Your monthly gift helps expand this vital work. 🏡 Build Sanctuary & Liberated Zones Our Mutual Aid Liberation Center @ 9 Gammon and our Sanctuary Land in rural Georgia are both Sanctuary Zones that serve as hubs for organizing, political education, skills training, and resource sharing. Our Sanctuary Zones are being shaped to be spaces where our communities can gather, connect, and support one another. We're also working to implement safety protocols and rapid-response systems at both sites to help community members when they need it most. Every contribution helps strengthen this work. Donate today: bit.ly/FundPS26

📸 Check out some snaps from the people who helped to make our Summer Brownsville Community Cookout a success! ☀️ Gathering together with our community is one of the many ways Project South works to build power, strengthen relationships, and create spaces for our own liberation. Thank you to everyone who came out and who helped out! And we can’t wait to see you at the next gathering! #ProjectSouth #Brownsville #SouthAtlanta #CommunityPower #CommunityCare #PeoplePower

🌱 Garden Day Vibes 🌱 Thursdays are Garden Days at the Mutual Aid Liberation Center’s Umoja Garden! 🌿 SUPPORT US! Donate to support our garden: bit.ly/FundPS26 Your support helps keep the Umoja Garden growing and provides fresh, locally grown food for our neighbors. As the Trump regime continues to erode the U.S. food safety net, causing our store-bought fruits and vegetables to make us sick, learning to grow our own food has never been more important! 🌿 JOIN US! Come grow with us! We’re excited to keep growing this garden together and hope to see even more of you this summer and fall. New volunteers always welcome! 📍 Every Thursday, 1:00–3:00 PM 📍 Mutual Aid Liberation Center, 9 Gammon Ave. SE

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

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