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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

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.

📢 JOIN US FOR THIS IMPORTANT VIRTUAL PANEL! THE MAKING OF A DETENTION STATE: The History of Immigrant Repression and Resistance in Georgia 🗣 Speakers: • Azadeh N. Shahshahani – Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South • Adelina Nicholls – Executive Director, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights • Anton Flores-Maisonet – Executive Director, Casa Alterna 🎤 Moderator: Daniela Rodriguez – Executive Director, Migrant Equity Southeast 🗓 Date: January 26, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00–7:30 PM ET / 5:00CT / 3:00PT 💻 Virtual on Zoom! 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/GADetentionJan26 At a time when immigrant communities face escalating criminalization, state violence, and detention, this conversation offers critical historical context on Georgia’s detention system and the resistance challenging it. Thank you to the following supporting organizations who helped to make this webinar possible: - Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Atlanta (AAJC-A) - Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) - Black Diaspora Liberty Initiative (BDLI) - Campaign to Shut Down Folkston ICE Processing Center - Casa Alterna - Community EsTrEl/La - Georgia Detention Watch - Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) - ICE Breakers - El Refugio - Migrant Equity Southeast - Project South #ImmigrantJustice #AbolishICE #EndDetention #GeorgiaOrganizing #MigrantJustice

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

At a time when our communities are already vulnerable and under attack, the Georgia Legislature is actively fueling the fire. In just the past week alone, harmful bills have begun advancing out of committee. A troubling trend is emerging: rather than upholding the rights of our communities, protecting immigrant communities under attack, and defending the fundamental right to protest, lawmakers are moving to expand surveillance, criminalize dissent, and shield ICE and police violence. Project South, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), and our partners are closely tracking new legislation that poses serious and immediate risks to our communities. Follow us for updates during the session. The 2026 Georgia legislative session began January 12.

✊🏾 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

📣 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

Georgia Bill Tracker Update: Groups Urge Georgia Legislators to Oppose Anti-Homeless Bill HB 295 Project South and the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (@glahr.ga), along with our partners, have issued a statement strongly denouning HB 295, a harmful bill that would negatively impact people experiencing homelessness and immigrant communities across Georgia. Download the full press statement here: bit.ly/4m5VXAT HB 295 would allow property owners and businesses to sue cities and towns if they believe laws criminalizing homelessness are not being enforced harshly enough. This bill would pressure municipalities to double down on ineffective and costly approaches, arresting and jailing people instead of addressing the root causes of homelessness. As Project South’s Senior Staff Attorney Priyanka Bhatt said: "HB 295 is a cruel and inhumane bill that coerces localities into criminalizing and punishing Georgia's most vulnerable communities. At a time when we are already seeing a dramatic escalation and targeting of immigrants and unhoused communities, this bill will only worsen conditions without providing real solutions. We have already seen the deadly consequences of these types of policies. Just last year, the forced clearing of homeless encampments in Atlanta resulted in the murder of Cornelius Taylor, an unhoused community member, who was still inside his tent. HB 295 could result in exactly these kinds of tragedies—where displacement and punishment take precedence over human life.” On any given night, more than 12,000 people in Georgia are unhoused, and with eviction rates rising, that number is likely to grow. HB 295 does nothing to provide real solutions, such as access to housing, mental health care, or community-based support. Instead, it deepens the criminalization of poverty, trapping people in a cycle that is increasingly difficult to escape. 📢 Tell your legislators to Vote NO on HB 295! 👉 TAKE ACTION at: bit.ly/NOHB295

📢 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

Another Tragic Death in ICE Custody in Georgia 🔗 Download + read the full press release: bit.ly/irwindeath As the nation grapples with the ICE murders of Joan Sebastián Guerrero, 26, in Maine, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, in Texas, another life has been lost in ICE custody here in Georgia. On July 13, Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, died while being transferred from the Irwin Detention Center to the Folkston Detention Center in Georgia. Jesus Manuel had been detained by ICE just days earlier. According to his family, he had serious medical needs and relied on medication. His sister shared: "We implored ICE not to take him due to his medical needs, but they didn't listen to our pleas. They also ignored our request to at least allow him to take the medication with him, allowing only one medication." His family is demanding justice and an independent investigation into his death. Fiscal Year 2026 has become the deadliest year in ICE's history. Immigrant justice advocates are calling on Congress to: • Zero out ICE funding • Revoke billions already allocated to the agency • Remove ICE from communities nationwide • Shut down ICE detention centers, including Irwin From Priyanka Bhatt, Project South’s Senior Staff Attorney: “It is appalling that ICE has caused the death of yet another community member, Mr. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, in Georgia. This tragedy raises the death toll to 21 deaths in ICE custody in Georgia since 2005. This horrible news is received after reports of three ICE-related murders around the country. We send our deepest condolences to Mr. Arenas-Silva’s family and all the families who have suffered due to ICE’s brutality. ICE’s callous decision to once again detain immigrants at Irwin County Detention Center despite its track record of abuses and neglect is abhorrent and inhumane. It is clear that ICE and its private prison contractors are violent agents of the white supremacists currently in charge of the U.S. government and must be treated as such. We demand justice and accountability for all the atrocities they have committed both inside ICE prisons and within our neighborhoods.”

JOINT PRESS RELEASE Advocacy Groups Call for Permanent Closure of Folkston Detention Center ⬇️ Download the Full Press Release (and link in bio): bit.ly/FOLNO26 A newly reported death at Georgia’s Folkston Detention Center, coupled with ongoing hunger strikes, has intensified calls from advocacy groups for the immediate and permanent closure of the ICE detention facility. * Detention is deadly. People in immigrant detention are describing it as ‘hell on earth’ because it is. We are deeply saddened and equally enraged over the death of Luis Sandoval at the Folkston Detention Center in Georgia. In immigrant detention, deprivation of freedom, isolation, uncertainty, and abysmal conditions, including inadequate medical care and mental health services, are a lethal combination that puts lives in jeopardy. People are dying in ICE detention at a record-breaking rate. Join groups on November 1 in Atlanta from 12:00 to 5:00 pm at the Oakland Cemetery to honor and remember lives lost at the hands of ICE, including Mr. Sandoval and demand to #shutdownfolkston and all Georgia detention centers. Follow and support the work of the #ShutDownFIPC Campaign. @shutdownfipc #EndDetention #AbolishICE #ShutDownFIPC

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!

Project South stands in solidarity with the detained immigrants bravely speaking out against the abuses at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia. Folkston is one of the largest ICE prisons in the country and the prison where one immigrant, Mr. Jaspal Singh, died in 2024. The lack of medical and mental health care, prolonged detention, frequent use of solitary confinement, and disregard for human life described at Folkston echoes with what we've heard from detained immigrants for years. Please read and share the accounts from those directly-impacted and support the work of the #ShutDownFIPC Campaign. @shutdownfipc Check out the recent video from detained immigrants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVHeyL7xIYM #EndDetention #AbolishICE #ShutDownFIPC

Project South along with Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta (@advancing_justice_atl) and the ACLU of Georgia (@acluofga) have filed a lawsuit against ICE under the Freedom of Information Act. We’re seeking records about the agency’s plans to expand immigration detention in Georgia and its use of the Atlanta ICE Field Office to detain immigrants. 🔗 Download + read the full press release: bit.ly/ICEFOIA26 (or see link in our bio) From Priyanka Bhatt, Project South’s Senior Staff Attorney: “It is appalling that ICE is going to such lengths to hide the truth. The public deserves to know about the inhumane conditions inside the Atlanta ICE Field Office holding cells where reports indicate individuals are held for days without proper food, beds, medical care, or access to counsel. ICE must be held accountable for all its destructive and deadly policies. We hope that this FOIA lawsuit will be the first step toward transparency and eventual accountability.”

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

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