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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.”

“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

🔗 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.

UPDATE: Close to 500 people are on hunger strike! 📢 Project South Stands with the Folkston Hunger Strikers Project South’s Countering State Repression team is following developments at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Folkston, Georgia, where dozens of detained immigrants have launched a mass hunger strike protesting prolonged detention, human rights violations, and deteriorating conditions inside the facility. ➡️ Swipe through the carousel for more info! RESOURCES: ▪️ Watch the recent video from detained immigrants: bit.ly/47ceYuS ▪️ Read their open letter: bit.ly/4dTMN7G ▪️Read their report documenting violations and conditions at Folkston: bit.ly/4yxRNap ▪️Follow and support the #ShutDownFIPC Campaign. @shutdownfipc #EndDetention #AbolishICE #ShutDownFIPC

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

*NEW DATE* 🚨 COMMUNITY RESPONDERS: GETTING READY + STAYING READY We have a new date for the first of Project South's fall BAM Training Series! This first training is designed for community members who have previously completed First Aid and CPR/AED certification and want to refresh their skills in a supportive, hands-on environment. This is not a certification or recertification course! But instead, it's an opportunity to: ✅ Review lifesaving techniques ✅ Practice emergency response skills ✅ Build confidence ✅ Ask questions and learn together ✅ Stay prepared when emergencies happen At Project South, we believe strong communities are built when neighbors are equipped to care for one another in times of crisis. Join us as we strengthen community emergency response capacity together. 📅 Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026 🕚 11:00 AM–3:00 PM 📍 9 Gammon Ave SE Atlanta, GA 30315 Register at the QR Code or online here: bit.ly/bam-june #ProjectSouth #CommunityResponders #MutualAid #EmergencyPreparedness #CPR #FirstAid #CommunityCare #BAMTrainingSeries

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

In recent weeks, ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine, and the National Guard killed four Black men in Memphis, including Tyrin Johnson, Jonah Neal, and Darrin Pigram. As law enforcement agents target our communities, our responsibility is clear: WE ORGANIZE. Come together and protect our people. ATL Get Ready is a coalition of community groups organizing together to stop ICE and police from entering our Sanctuary Zones. Since May 1st, we have recruited almost 50 sites to sign on as Sanctuary Zones in Atlanta, and we're working toward 100! 🔥 JOIN US! ✊🏽 Become a Sanctuary Zone in Atlanta! Ready to sign on? Go to: bit.ly/sanctuaryzone-atl * What is a Sanctuary Zone? A Sanctuary Zone is a place that commits to protecting the people who live, work, and gather there. In practice, that means your site: ✅ Does not allow ICE entry without a judicial warrant. ✅ Does not rely on policing as the first response to community concerns. ✅ Prioritizes alternatives such as de-escalation, mutual aid, and community-based resources whenever possible. Sanctuary Zones put safety over surveillance and solidarity over fear. * Who do we call instead of law enforcement authorities? Many situations do not require a police response, and businesses are not required to admit ICE without a judicial warrant. For many non-emergency situations, Atlanta residents can call 311 to access PAD (Policing Alternatives & Diversion). PAD is a community organization that assists people who may need help with basic resources, housing, mental health or substance use but are at risk of arrest or jail. Learn more at www.atlantapad.org. What are we building? We envision a connected network of Sanctuary Zones: businesses, organizations, and community spaces that can respond proactively during times of crisis instead of reacting after harm has occurred. Together, we can create a city where everyone can live, work, and gather with dignity and without fear of unnecessary criminalization. If you're ready to become a Sanctuary Zone or want to help recruit others, we'd love to have you involved. Sign up today: bit.ly/sanctuaryzone-atl

📢 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

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