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40 YEARS OF BUILDING SOUTHERN MOVEMENT POWER! ✊🏾 CELEBRATE OUR WINS. PREPARE FOR BACKLASH. BUILD POWER FOR THE LONG HAUL. ➡️ SWIPE THROUGH THE CAROUSEL to learn more about our how we are using the lessons from history to build today! 💛 DONATE TODAY TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF PROJECT SOUTH: bit.ly/PSDonate2026 Forty years ago, Project South was born out of a struggle to defend Black voting rights against right-wing backlash. In 1986, amid the Reagan Administration’s efforts to consolidate right-wing power rooted in the South’s Jim Crow legacy, Project South’s founders joined the “I’ll Vote On Campaign” in West Alabama to challenge voter fraud accusations against Black Southerners. They WON. And Project South was born. As we enter our fifth decade, we need YOU! Project South is a grassroots membership organization, and our power comes from the people who organize, collaborate, and support our work to build movements at the grassroots. ✅ RENEW or JOIN as a Project South member during this milestone 40th anniversary year! ✅ AND SAVE THE DATE! Join us for our 40th Anniversary Celebration & Membership Assembly, December 4–5 in Atlanta, GA! ✅ Go here to RSVP: bit.ly/PS40TH As our founding Director, Jerome Scott, reminds us: “Make it happen!” *** Support 40 years of movement building and help power the next 40! DONATE TODAY: bit.ly/PSDonate2026 #ProjectSouth #ProjectSouth40 #40YearsOfMovementBuilding

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

As we prepare to celebrate 40 years of Project South's movement building work, we are also doing some reflection so that we can proactively move toward our next 40 years. We want to hear from our community! Whether you currently work with Project South or have worked with us in the past, participated in one of our programs, partnered with us in the work, or are part of the communities we serve and represent, your voice, experiences, and perspectives matter to us! If you have a few extra minutes, please fill out our survey! Thank you! TAKE THE SURVEY (CLICK THE QR CODE OR LINK IN BIO): bit.ly/PS40SUR

📣 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

@projectsouthatl is excited to be partnering with and sending a delegation to this important gathering! Check it out! Reposted from @conmijente: 📍Atlanta, here we come! On November 20th, 2026 join Mijente and dozens of organizers, students, workers, researchers, and community leaders for a full day 💪🏽 to talk about our latest report: The Tech Behind ICE. Surveillance infrastructure is everywhere—it’s now in our streets, schools, workplaces, and hospitals, and it’s being turned on journalists, protestors, and movement leaders too. We’ll break down how tech is being used against us, brainstorm solutions, and support our local fights on the ground. 🔗 Register at http://Bit.ly/NTFI-ATL

**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

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

Share with your networks! Project South is seeking candidates for a full-time leadership position: Director of Finance. Join a dynamic team! Be part of a social justice, movement building anchor organization in the South! Bring your skills to a 40 year-old institution that supports frontline organizers, groups, and formations! Link to application is in bio and at bit.ly/PS-Finance-2026

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

🔗 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.

📣 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

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!

🔗 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

Sign up for Project South's monthly newsletter today! Keep up with what Project South is doing to build movement infrastructure across the region! Stay up to date on upcoming programs, trainings, campaigns, and ways you can support our work. Go to http://bit.ly/JoinMALC

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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