Project South

Location: Regional South

Project South is a grassroots organization based in the US South. For over 23 years , we have created critical spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership for long-term transformation. Our programs focus on communities of color affected by social control and economic degradation created by historic and current trends of privatization, exploitation, and structural racism in the US.

Highlights:

Project South provides popular political education through our dynamic leadership development models, and we build relationships with organizations and networks across the US and global South. We believe in bottom-up movement building for social, racial, and economic justice on local, regional, national, and global levels. Our partnerships reflect over eight years of collaborating with community members and organizational leadership specifically to advance youth organizing work in the South.

Project South’s work to eliminate violence includes building capacity in our community networks to respond to violence while simultaneously decreasing the criminalization of marginalized people.

The Youth Community Action Program (YCAP) develops youth leadership by providing popular political education to young people in Atlanta, creates alternative youth-run media programs, and organizes for local community power.

BAM sessions are tailored to the participants and provide organizing skills, historical context for movement building, and long-term strategy development and planning. Our methods include popular education, interactive and asset-based curriculum, and experiential practice.

Principles

• Collectivism
• Strategy
• Truth
• Participation
• Leadership
• Liberation

Links:

• Project South - http://www.projectsouth.org/home

Submitted by Jason Lacoste on: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 12:53 pm

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social justice, poverty, project south