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📢 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.”

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