Project South is a 21 year-old grassroots organization based in Atlanta that cultivates leaders to confront injustice. By providing dynamic spaces to learn organizing skills, Project South shifts Southern-based organizing from reactive battles to visionary and strategic movement building for racial and economic justice.
In 2007, Project South was the anchor organization for the first United States Social Forum. Over 15,000 people from every state in the US and over 60 countries converged here in Atlanta under the banner: “If another world is possible, another US is necessary.†Young people, indigenous people, communities from the Gulf Coast and the Southwest, organizers, activists, educators, and families came together to build a world free from oppression and exploitation. Project South is proud to have participated in many ways to make the US Social Forum happen.
We use popular education to connect our current efforts to lessons from our rich histories of struggle. We facilitate Organizing Institutes, Leadership Academies, popular education workshops, long-term strategy sessions, and People’s Movement Assemblies. We work with grassroots communities to address systems of violence and economic injustice. We believe young people are essential to strong movement building and we create programs for young people to develop their leadership for action in our communities. Most recently, we launched the Septima Clark Community Power Institute, a month-long leadership development program for Atlanta young people.
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